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False starts and misconceptions about tourism development Eight considerations from the southernmost part of Africa

False starts and misconceptions about tourism development Eight considerations from the... One of the consequences of the present long period of economic depression, which has been felt with particular severity by most Third World countries, has been a necessary critical reassessement of many development strategies. Especially in Africa, the balance sheet between efforts and results has not been very encouraging. The massive industrialization programmes and the large projects of the last three decades have neither helped to achieve a more competitive production nor have introduced widespread prosperity, as hoped. Gradually the accent is now shifting toward new soft options, one of which is tourism. We remember that only 1520 years ago many African governments or international development agencies were still considering tourism as a marginal economic activity, to be left to poor nations without much prospects for industrialization. Since then much has changed and especially in the present postindustrial economies tourism and the whole gamut of other leisure industries have become one of the most dynamic fields of expansion, even in the developing world. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Tourist Review Emerald Publishing

False starts and misconceptions about tourism development Eight considerations from the southernmost part of Africa

The Tourist Review , Volume 43 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 1988

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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0251-3102
DOI
10.1108/eb057989
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Abstract

One of the consequences of the present long period of economic depression, which has been felt with particular severity by most Third World countries, has been a necessary critical reassessement of many development strategies. Especially in Africa, the balance sheet between efforts and results has not been very encouraging. The massive industrialization programmes and the large projects of the last three decades have neither helped to achieve a more competitive production nor have introduced widespread prosperity, as hoped. Gradually the accent is now shifting toward new soft options, one of which is tourism. We remember that only 1520 years ago many African governments or international development agencies were still considering tourism as a marginal economic activity, to be left to poor nations without much prospects for industrialization. Since then much has changed and especially in the present postindustrial economies tourism and the whole gamut of other leisure industries have become one of the most dynamic fields of expansion, even in the developing world.

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The Tourist ReviewEmerald Publishing

Published: Jan 1, 1988

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