Responsible tourism: critical issues for conservation and development

'Responsible Tourism presents a wide variety of valuable lessons learned in responsible tourism initiatives in Southern Africa that many tourism practitioners can use in their efforts to make the tourism sector work for the poor and for the environment.' Dr Harsh Varma Director Development Assistance Department World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) 'For those interested in how tourism can assist in the economic and social development of societies in need Responsible Tourism effectively integrates scales and types of knowledge to present an informative stimulating perspective. It will be on my boo.

Chapter 1: Introduction. Responsible Tourism in Southern Africa. Anna Spenceley -- Part 1: Policies, Institutional interventions and Market Forces -- Chapter 2: Local Economic Development in Mozambique: An assessment of the implementation of tourism policy as a means to promote local economies. Andrew Rylance -- Chapter 3: Ecotourism in Madagascar: How a Sleeping Beauty is finally awakening, Michaela Pawliczek and Hitesh Mheta -- Chapter 4: Public private partnerships in South African National Parks: The rationale, benefits and lessons learned, Giju Varghese -- Chapter 5: A perspective on community based tourism from South Africa: The Transform program, 1996-2007, Steve Collins and Herman Snel -- Chapter 6: Responsible tourism and the tourism industry: a demand and supply perspective, Nicole Frey and Richard George -- Chapter 7: The development impacts of tourism supply chains -- increasing impact on poverty and decreasing our ignorance, Caroline Ashley and Gareth Haysom -- Part 2: Responsible nature-based tourism -- Chapter 8: Impacts of wildlife tourism on rural livelihoods in southern Africa, Anna Spenceley -- Chapter 9: Tourism in transfrontier conservation areas: the Kavango-…