This article reviews the current status of tropical glaciers in the South American Andes, East
Africa, and Australasia by shedding light on past, present, and future glacier coverage in the …

Welcome to the fifth edition of Tourism: A Modern Synthesis, which has been revised to meet
the needs of the reader after extensive feedback from readers, adopters, students and …

Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally
inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely …

There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to
India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a …

Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management
(CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from …

Background Linkage of tourism with agriculture is critical for maximizing the contribution of
local economic and tourism development. However, these two sectors are not well linked for …

Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts
and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural …

The objective of this article is to investigate the impact of cultural tourism on welfare as
perceived by communities in rural Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The survey, which involved 85 …

Ecotourism has become a sustainable alternative to degrading livelihoods around protected
areas in developing countries. Its contributions to poverty reduction are captured in terms of …

This paper analyses how tourism development in Tanzania is shaped in fundamental ways
by the political–economic forces governing many post-colonial African states. Politics in …