Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africa’s tourism trajectory and future. It offers a uniquely optimistic outlook for tourism in Africa whilst acknowledging the many challenges that African countries continue to grapple with. By examining broad and localized empirical studies, conceptual frameworks, culturally centered paradigms, and innovative methodological approaches for African contexts, this book showcases the many facets of tourism in Africa that illustrate hope, resilience, growth, and survival.
This volume explores themes such as community-based tourism, wildlife tourism, tourism governance and leadership, crisis recovery, regional integration, the role of indigenous knowledge, event tourism and the impact of smart technologies. It acknowledges the challenges and opportunities for growth that exist in these various contexts and explores how tourism creates value for the spectrum of its participants.
Including a wide selection of contributions from diverse authors, many of them African, this book offers an Afro-centric interpretation of tourism phenomena. It will be of great interest to students, researchers and academics in the field of Tourism and African Studies, as well as Development Studies and Geography.
Contents
List of Figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
- Positive tourism in Africa: Resisting Afro-pessimism
- The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme in Southern Africa - Promise or Peril? The Case of Botswana
- Land reform and the promotion of collaborative community-based ecotourism at Somkhanda Game Reserve, South Africa
- Understanding the relationships between protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods: A systems thinking approach
- How community-based tourism can survive in turbulent environments: The Mahenye CAMPFIRE project, Zimbabwe SHEPHERD NYARUWATA, TAKARUZA MUNYANYIWA AND CLEOPAS NJEKERAI
- The ‘Afro-positive turn’: Undermining Afro-pessimism through Afro-positive digital counter-narratives
- Broadening Uganda’s tourism product base through indigenous cultural resource utilisation
- Insight into Africa: wildlife tourism as educational transformation
- Building cultural resilience in community-based tourism: the case of Goo-Moremi, Eastern Botswana.
- Leveraging tourism in Kenya through indigenous knowledge
- Regional integration: A lever for positive tourism development in Africa?
- Tourism progress in the SADC region: Post-colonial era milestones.
- Tourism and Economic Wellbeing in Africa
- The positive interaction between Tourism Development and Human Development: Evidence from Mauritius
- Tourism governance and organizational infrastructure in the East African community: A baseline analysis
- The contribution of the law to tourism: The case of Mauritius
- Terrorism and tourism recovery cases: A Study of Tunisia and Egypt.
- The trophy hunting controversy: How hunters rationalise their pastime in social media
- Management of a mature destination: Kruger National Park, South Africa
- The future of tourism in Africa: Optimism in a changing environment
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PART I: Tourism and community livelihoods
JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA, AND GLADYS SIPHAMBE,
REGIS MUSAVENGANE
MOREN T. STONE AND LESEGO S. STONE
PART II: Positive Afro-identities and indigenous cultural resources
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JIM AYOREKIRE, JOSEPH OBUA, AND MICHAEL BRUCE BYARUHANGA
CHLOE ROOKS, GARRY MARVIN, CAROLINE ROSS AND JONATHAN SKINNER
JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, GLADYS SIPHAMBE & TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA
TOM KWANYA
PART III: Governance, integration, and synergies
BINESWAREE BOLAKY
ZIBANAI ZHOU
OGECHI ADEOLA, OLANIYI EVANS AND ROBERT EBO HINSON
BOOPEN SEETANAH AND SHEEREEN FAUZEL
BERNARD KITHEKA AND AGNES SIRIMA
ROOPANAND MAHADEW AND KRISHNEE APPADOO
PART IV: Crises, controversies, and the future
DAVID ADELOYE AND NEIL CARR
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SANETTE FERREIRA
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Index
Contributors
Editor
Mucha Mkono, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Authors
David Adeloye, PhD Candidate in the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. Email: [email protected]
Ogechi Adeola, Fellow in the Operations, Information Systems and Marketing Division of Lagos Business School (LBS), Lagos, Nigeria. Email: [email protected]
Krishnee Appadoo, Lecturer in the Department of Law, University of Mauritius, Mauritius. Email: [email protected]
Jim Ayorekire, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Forestry, Biodiversity & Tourism, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Email: [email protected]
Bineswaree Bolaky, Economic Affairs Officer in the Africa section, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Email: [email protected]
Michael Bruce Byaruhanga, PhD fellow at Copenhagen University, Denmark, and Assistant Lecturer in Tourism in the Department of Forestry, Biodiversity & Tourism, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Email: [email protected]
Neil Carr, Professor and Head of the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. Email: [email protected]
Olaniyi Evans, Lecturer in the School of Management & Social Sciences, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria. Email: [email protected]
Sheereen Fauzel, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Management, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius. Email: [email protected]
Sanette Ferreira, Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosc, South Africa. Email: [email protected]
Robert Ebo Hinson, Professor and Head of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Ghana Business School, Legon-Accra, Ghana. Email: [email protected]
Bernard Kitheka, Assistant Professor at Missouri State University, United States. Email: [email protected]
Tom Kwanya, Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies, Technical University of Kenya. Email: [email protected]
Roopanand Mahadew, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law, University of Mauritius, Mauritius. Email: [email protected]
Garry Marvin, Professor of Human-Animal Studies in the Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Joseph E. Mbaiwa, Professor of Tourism Studies and Director of the Okavango Research Institute, Maun, Botswana. Email: [email protected]
Tsholofelo Mbaiwa, Co-Director of Felojoe Research Services, Botswana. Email: [email protected]
Takaruza Munyanyiwa, Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Email: [email protected]
Regis Musavengane, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Email: [email protected]
Cleopas Njekerai, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Email: [email protected]
Shepherd Nyaruwata, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. Email: [email protected]
Joseph Obua, Professor of Environmental Forestry and Ecotourism, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Email: [email protected]
Chloe Rooks, BSc Graduate, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Caroline Ross, Reader in Evolutionary Anthropology and Head of the Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Boopen Seetanah, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Management, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius. Email: [email protected]
Gladys Siphambe, PhD candidate in the Faculty of Business, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. Email: [email protected]
Agnes Sirima, Lecturer and Head of the Department of Tourism and Recreation at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania. Email: [email protected]
Jonathan Skinner, Reader in Social Anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Lesego S. Stone, research scholar at the Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana, Maun, Botswana. Email:
Moren T. Stone, Senior lecturer of Environmental Science and Tourism Studies at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. Email: [email protected]
Zibanai Zhou, Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Email: [email protected]
Biography
Mucha Mkono is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow at the University of Queensland Business School. Her research focuses on a range of issues in tourism, especially pertaining to Africa, including wildlife conservation and trophy hunting, social movements, and representations of Africa.
