Poverty alleviation through pro-poor tourism: The role of Botswana Forest Reserves

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5697-5713

  Manwa, Haretsebe ^a   Manwa, Farai ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botswana; Forest reserves; Institutional capacity building; Pro poor tourism; Sustainable tourism

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECOTOURISM; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; PERCEPTION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; STAKEHOLDER;

BOTSWANA;

EID: 84906874938     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6095697     Document Type: Article

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