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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Positive tourism in Africa: Resisting Afro-pessimism MUCHA MKONO PART I: Tourism and community livelihoods The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme in Southern Africa - Promise or Peril? The Case of Botswana JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA, AND GLADYS SIPHAMBE, Land reform and the promotion of collaborative community-based ecotourism at Somkhanda Game Reserve, South Africa REGIS MUSAVENGANE Understanding the relationships between protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods: A systems thinking approach MOREN T. STONE AND LESEGO S. STONE How community-based tourism can survive in turbulent environments: The Mahenye CAMPFIRE project, Zimbabwe SHEPHERD NYARUWATA, TAKARUZA MUNYANYIWA AND CLEOPAS NJEKERAI PART II: Positive Afro-identities and indigenous cultural resources The ‘Afro-positive turn’: Undermining Afro-pessimism through Afro-positive digital counter-narratives MUCHA MKONO Broadening Uganda’s tourism product base through indigenous cultural resource utilisation JIM AYOREKIRE, JOSEPH OBUA, AND MICHAEL BRUCE BYARUHANGA Insight into Africa: wildlife tourism as educational transformation CHLOE ROOKS, GARRY MARVIN, CAROLINE ROSS AND JONATHAN SKINNER Building cultural resilience in community-based tourism: the case of Goo-Moremi, Eastern Botswana. JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, GLADYS SIPHAMBE & TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA Leveraging tourism in Kenya through indigenous knowledge TOM KWANYA PART III: ...
