Broschiertes Buch

Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa

Local Communities and Natural Resources in Transition

Herausgeber: Saarinen, Jarkko; Manwa, Haretsebe; Becker, Fritz O.

Beschreibung

The book is an accessible examination of the complex connections between tourism and sustainability in a southern African context. It introduces relationships between tourism, sustainability and development with a range of case studies from the region, focusing especially on natural resource dependent communities in processes of transition.

Autor

Jarkko Saarinen is Professor at University of Oulu in Finland and University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability and tourism-community relations. Fritz Becker is a Professor of Geography at the national University of Namibia in Windhoek, Namibia. Haretsebe Manwa is Associate Professor at North-West University, South Africa. Her research encompasses tourism and poverty alleviation, wildlife tourism, community-based tourism and cultural tourism. Deon Wilson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Tourism Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Channel View Publications
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9781845411084
• ISBN-10: 1845411080
• Artikelnr.: 26855292