Tourism strategies and local responses in southern Africa /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Tourism > South Africa.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Food Economics, (New March 2000); Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Marketing and Distribution.; Land Resources.; Biological Resources (Animal); Food Service, (New June 2002); Communication and Mass Media.; Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Rural Development, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Birds.; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.; Case studies.; Catering.; Coastal areas.; Community development.; Economic development.; Government policy.; Human immunodeficiency viruses.; Information technology.; Marketing.; National parks.; Nature conservation.; Nature tourism.; Rural development.; Rural tourism.; Telecommunications.; Tourism development.; Tourism policy.; Electronic books.
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This book discusses tourism development in Namibia. It consists of 12 major chapters. Chapter 2 explores the opportunities and challenges of implementing a national tourism policy in Namibia, as perceived by tourism entrepreneurs. Chapter 3 presents the South African experiences for local economic d...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Development Through Tourism? / Petri Hottola
• Tourism Development Strategies in Namibia : Private and Community Perceptions on the National Policy / Julia Jänis
• Local Economic Development and Tourism Planning in Africa : Evidence from Route Tourism in South Africa / Christian M. Rogerson
• Community Development Strategies in the Kalahari : an Expression of Modernization's Monologue? / Lauren Dyll
• Selling Places and Constructing Local Cultures in Tourism : the Role of the Ovahimba in Namibian Tourism Promotion / Jarkko Saarinen and Maaria Niskala
• The Applicability of Government Policy to Community-based Catering Services : the Hananwa of Blouberg, Limpopo Province / Chris Boonzaaier
• Tourism Development, Rural Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana / Joseph E. Mbaiwa
• Coastal Bird Tourism in Namibia : Postcolonial Resources and Restraints / Petri Hottola
• The Responses of the Southern African Tourism Sector in Combating HIV/AIDS / Harri Siiskonen
• Interplay Between Local Service Suppliers and Incoming Tour Operators : the Case of Madagascar / Øystein Jensen
• Tourism Development and the Polemic of ICT Advocacy in Namibian Schools / Kenneth Matengu
• Transfrontier Tourism and Relations Between Local Communities and the Private Sector in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park / Marja Spierenburg, Harry Wels, Kees van der Waal and Steven Robins
• Tourism Development Strategies : Lessons from the Southern African Experiences / Petri Hottola.