دانلود کتاب دیدگاه های آفریقای جنوبی در مدیریت گردشگری پایدار

This edited collection focuses on tourism, sustainability and local change in southern Africa. The book aims to offer versatile perspectives that address various changes and challenges in the southern African tourism landscape. The tourism industry is an increasingly important economy in the region, and it is creating a multitude of changes for communities and the environment. The industry itself also faces significant changes and challenges. The key drivers of change that include globalisation, climate change, and deepening global and regional inequalities form the context for the diverse and exciting set of case studies from the region. The book offers a case study–driven approach to sustainability and change management needs in tourism development in local community contexts. The case study chapters are linked through the book’s focus on sustainable tourism and local community development. The book emphasises explicitly and implicitly the need to understand both global change and local contexts in sustainable tourism development. This book results from the small collaborative project funded by the Southern African – Nordic Centre (SANORD) in 2018–2019. The project ‘Tourism for Development? Perspectives to Sustainable Tourism Management in Global South’ was coordinated by the University of Pretoria. The partners were: the University of Botswana, the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Johannesburg and the University of Oulu (FIN). The concrete-level aims of the project were to bring together supervisors and graduate students by organising graduate school symposiums. The first meeting was held at the Hillcrest Sports Campus of the University of Pretoria in October 2018. The second meeting was a part of the 12th SANORD Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Botswana in Gaborone in September 2019. Furthermore, based on these meetings and created networks, the plan was to process an edited research-based book, hence this book. For supporting the publishing of this book, we would like to thank Springer and especially Prasad Gurunadham, Evelien Bakker and Bernadette Deelen-Mans for their support and patience. Although this volume does not focus on the COVID-19 issues, as it has been initiated before the pandemic, the crisis has resulted in challenges pertaining to the book process in its schedule and composition. Our thanks also go to the book series editors Caroline Funck and Dieter Muller. As the editors of the book, we would like to acknowledge several individuals and partners in the development of this book. Jarkko Saarinen would like to thank many colleagues, postgraduate students, friends and institutions as well as other actors from the southern African region who have contributed to the ideas related to sustainability needs in tourism. In particular, he would like to thank Chris and Jayne Rogerson at the University of Johannesburg, Robin Nunkoo at the University of Mauritius, Julius Atlhopheng at the University of Botswana, and C. Michael Hall at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The Universities of Johannesburg, Botswana and Pretoria and the colleagues there, Villa Pablo and Allesverloren, have also contributed towards the development of this book. Naomi Moswete would like to thank the Research and Development Unit at the University of Botswana for being part of the organising team towards the SANORD conference in 2019, which contributed immensely towards the ideas of this book project. Many thanks go to all those who took part in the process of the book, such as staff from the Department of Environmental science, namely Masego Mpotokwane, David Lesolle and Ditiro Moalafhi, and a score of graduate students. Special thanks also go to Mary Ellen Kimaro at the University of Namibia. Berendien Lubbe would like to thank SANORD for creating the opportunity for collaboration on this project and book, allowing academics to share ideas and work together on this project. I appreciate the guidance and input of Jarkko Saarinen as our lead editor and Naomi Moswete for her insightful thoughts on the book. I would also like to thank Prof Karen Harris, Head of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria, for her constant support in these endeavours. Collectively, we would like to express our appreciation to all who contributed to writing the chapters or peer reviewing them. The overall book has been externally peer reviewed based on the series editors. In addition, each chapter was externally peer reviewed by independent experts in their field.