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.

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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.

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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

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