Enclave tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Tourism Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-172

  Mbaiwa, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Dependency paradigm; Enclave tourism; International and domestic tourism; Okavango Delta; Poverty; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; RURAL ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; OKAVANGO DELTA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 10444282107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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