This study analyzed changes in livelihoods before and after tourism development at Khwai,
Mababe and Sankoyo villages in the Okavango Delta. Specifically, it analyzed how people …

This chapter analyses the effectiveness of tourism development in achieving better means of
subsistence and conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The text is largely based …

The Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program in Botswana
aims to achieve biodiversity conservation and rural development in rich biodiversity areas …

Developing countries are faced with a decline in natural resources and high poverty rates.
Ironically, these countries are also the key nature-based international tourism destinations …

Introduction Botswana's tourism industry has grown since the 1990s. This growth is partly
attributed to the adoption of the Tourism Policy of 1990 as it recognizes tourism as a means …

This chapter reports research that assesses the contribution of community-based tourism to
the improvement of rural livelihoods among Basanva communities in the Okavango Delta …

The tourism industry has been one of the global economic success stories in the last 40
years (Coccossis & Parpaires, 1995). In Botswana, tourism was almost non-existent at …

Community-based rural tourism is has received massive support as one of the ways through
which the benefits of tourism can reach the local communities. It is generally believed that by …

The objective of this article is to assess the socio-cultural impacts of tourism development in
the Okavango Delta, Botswana. This paper largely relied on the research work and reports …

The Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program in Botswana
aims at achieving conservation and rural development. In the Okavango Delta, some …