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Tourism and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - Current issues and local realities (Paperback)
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Tourism and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - Current issues and local realities (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective
contributor to socio-economic development in the developing world
has propagated, with many viewing tourism as a provider for poverty
alleviation and towards other UN Millennium Development Goals. Over
the same period, readers have become familiar with the paradoxes,
complexities and inequalities of tourism in relation to
development, wealth creation, growth, redistribution, governance
and 'hosts-guests' relationships. This volume further extends this
critical debate with a much-needed cohesive publication on
Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In an era of fluctuating tourist arrivals
at global level, the growth of tourism in SSA requires deeper
consideration in terms of its inconsistent and questionable
implications at local level. Taking as a central theme the debate
on whether tourism should be used in development efforts, this book
examines the way in which tourism has controversially become the
way forward to development in several SSA locations and assesses
bottlenecks to sustainable development as well as dilemmas and
challenges faced by those SSA destinations seeking to achieve
development through tourism. It offers an explicit set of chapters
adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing upon tourism
studies, human geography, sociology, anthropology, political
economy, development and environmental studies, and integrates case
studies authored by local African practitioners and academics to
produce a book that gave voice to local experts on local realities.
Combining an overview of key theories, concepts, contemporary
issues and debates as well as practical insights from a wide range
of regions in SSA, this book will be a valuable resource for those
investigating the role of tourism in development.
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