Changes on traditional livelihood activities and lifestyles caused by tourism development in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1050-1060

  Mbaiwa, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Community based natural resource management; Livelihood activities; Modernization theory; Okavango Delta; Tourism development

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; MODERNIZATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; VILLAGE;

BOTSWANA; NGAMILAND; OKAVANGO DELTA;

HYPARRHENIA;

EID: 79955469551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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