Community-based tourism as a sustainable solution to maximise impacts locally? the tsiseb conservancy case, Namibia

Development Southern Africa

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 757-772

  Lapeyre, Renaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community based tourism; Global commodity chains; Institutional arrangements; Livelihoods

Indexed keywords

ECOTOURISM; EMPOWERMENT; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RURAL AREA;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 78149385986     PISSN: 0376835X     EISSN: 14703637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2010.522837     Document Type: Article

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