The role of tourism employment in poverty reduction and community perceptions of conservation and tourism in southern Africa
Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2012
Special Issue: Tourism and Poverty Reduction: theory and practice in less economically developed countries
By Susan Lynne Snyman
Abstract
High-end ecotourism operations in African protected areas often claim to share the benefits of ecotourism with surrounding rural communities through employment as well as “trickle down” effects of revenues that result from such operations. The receipt of benefits from ecotourism is also claimed to promote an appreciation of biological diversity and conservation in surrounding communities. In practice, these claimed benefits can be challenging to measure and no multi-country study has attempted to assess the efficacy of these claims across a variety of circumstances. This study asses...
