Tourism is used as a main instrument of nation building in many postcolonial countries such as Namibia, South Africa …, Botswana and Madagascar. Using case studies from these areas, this book examines the strategic objectives for tourism growth …Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Development Through Tourism? -- 2 Tourism …

Many developing countries are looking to tourism as an avenue for economic and human development, and foreign direct … investment (FDI) is one of the routes through which they can carry out tourism. This study highlights the main findings with … respect to the development impacts of foreign direct investment in tourism (TFDI) in five East and South African countries, on …