The tourism industry has been identified as an industry to diversify the economy away from
capital-intensive and vulnerable diamond mining sector. In Botswana, the industry is mainly …

Botswana is a semi-arid country with a total land area of 582,000 km2 and a population
density of 2.7 per km2. It is characterized by periodic droughts that partly explain the …

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 …

Realizing sustainable development is a major challenge for most African countries.
Economic growth in most African countries is largely centered on the extraction of natural …

The booming tourism industry in the developing countries has been widely viewed as a
source of investment, employment and foreign exchange. There is an assumption that the …

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 paper draws on the dependency paradigm to explain the development of enclave
tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both …

The objective of this paper is to assess the problems and prospects of sustainable tourism
development in developing countries with special reference to the Okavango Delta …

Botswana is a key tourism destination in Southern Africa mainly because of the rich wildlife
resources and scenic beauty it sustains. Since the 1990s, the growth of wildlife-based …

Tourism is believed by some to be the most rapidly growing industry in the world (Campbell
1999; WTO 2003). Growth began in the late 1940s (Edwards 2004). From that period, the …