Positive Tourism in Africa

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.

List of contents

Contents

List of Figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Positive tourism in Africa: Resisting Afro-pessimism

MUCHA MKONO

PART I: Tourism and community livelihoods


2. 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,



3. Land reform and the promotion of collaborative community-based ecotourism at Somkhanda Game Reserve, South Africa

REGIS MUSAVENGANE



4. Understanding the relationships between protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods: A systems thinking approach

MOREN T. STONE AND LESEGO S. STONE



5. 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


6. The 'Afro-positive turn': Undermining Afro-pessimism through Afro-positive digital counter-narratives

MUCHA MKONO



7. Broadening Uganda's tourism product base through indigenous cultural resource utilisation

JIM AYOREKIRE, JOSEPH OBUA, AND MICHAEL BRUCE BYARUHANGA



8. Insight into Africa: wildlife tourism as educational transformation

CHLOE ROOKS, GARRY MARVIN, CAROLINE ROSS AND JONATHAN SKINNER




9. Building cultural resilience in community-based tourism: the case of Goo-Moremi, Eastern Botswana.

JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, GLADYS SIPHAMBE & TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA



10. Leveraging tourism in Kenya through indigenous knowledge

TOM KWANYA


PART III: Governance, integration, and synergies



11. Regional integration: A lever for positive tourism development in Africa?

BINESWAREE BOLAKY



12. Tourism progress in the SADC region: Post-colonial era milestones.

ZIBANAI ZHOU


13. Tourism and Economic Wellbeing in Africa

OGECHI ADEOLA, OLANIYI EVANS AND ROBERT EBO HINSON



14. The positive interaction between Tourism Development and Human Development: Evidence from Mauritius

BOOPEN SEETANAH AND SHEEREEN FAUZEL



15. Tourism governance and organizational infrastructure in the East African community: A baseline analysis

BERNARD KITHEKA AND AGNES SIRIMA



16. The contribution of the law to tourism: The case of Mauritius

ROOPANAND MAHADEW AND KRISHNEE APPADOO

PART IV: Crises, controversies, and the future


17. Terrorism and tourism recovery cases: A Study of Tunisia and Egypt.

DAVID ADELOYE AND NEIL CARR



18. The trophy hunting controversy: How hunters rationalise their pastime in social media

MUCHA MKONO



19. Management of a mature destination: Kruger National Park, South Africa

SANETTE FERREIRA



20. The future of tourism in Africa: Optimism in a changing environment

MUCHA MKONO


Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mucha Mkono
• Assisted by: Mucha Mkono (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2022
• EAN: 9781032338514
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233851-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Africa, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries