Tourism strategies and local responses in Southern Africa / edited by Petri Hottola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hottola, Petri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--South Africa.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tourism is used as a main instrument of nation building in many postcolonial countries such as Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Madagascar. Using case studies from these areas, this book examines the strategic objectives for tourism growth and how nationally-set objectives work at the grassroots level.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Development Through Tourism?; 2 Tourism Development Strategies in Namibia: Private and Community Perceptions on the National Policy; 3 Local Economic Development and Tourism Planning in Africa: Evidence from Route Tourism in South Africa; 4 Community Development Strategies in the Kalahari: an Expression of Modernization's Monologue?; 5 Selling Places and Constructing Local Cultures in Tourism: the Role of the Ovahimba in Namibian Tourism Promotion

6 The Applicability of Government Policy to Community-based Catering Services: the Hananwa of Blouberg, Limpopo Province7 Tourism Development, Rural Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana; 8 Coastal Bird Tourism in Namibia: Postcolonial Resources and Restraints; 9 The Responses of the Southern African Tourism Sector in Combating HIV/AIDS; 10 Interplay Between Local Service Suppliers and Incoming Tour Operators: the Case of Madagascar; 11 Tourism Development and the Polemic of ICT Advocacy in Namibian Schools

12 Transfrontier Tourism and Relations Between Local Communities and the Private Sector in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park13 Tourism Development Strategies: Lessons from the Southern African Experiences; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-24404-3

9786612244049

1-84593-509-8

OCLC:

646812266