Community Based Tourism - Modern Destination Management

ISBN-13: 9783639164664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 88 str.

Marcus Dittmann

Opis

Already as a child most people became aware of thebig continent Africa and its image of hosting a realunknown world, far away from the civilization. Itpromises adventure! Africa weaves its magic aroundpeoples lives and there certainly is the wish toexperience a part of this treasure once in a lifetime. Later on people become aware of the possibilityto travel to Africa. There are many ways todo so to the most spectacular venues. This is whatmakes Africa so special: a well presented andprepared world within the unknown beauty of a blackcontinent. But this tourism relies on residents,relies on people who live there and which mostlynever have been able to be a tourist and to feel whatit means to travel, to be a tourist and to bewelcomed as a visitor. And this is what must be takeninto consideration - managing tourism to Africa andto South Africa carefully by tourism organisationsand operators as well as all other stakeholders involvedto that type of contributor for a better livingstandard of its hosts - the involvementof the citizens at all stages of tourism development- Community Based Tourism.

O autorze

About the author:

Marcus Dittmann, born in November 1980, finished his traineeship
as Retail Salesman and his studies of Leisure and Tourism
Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund in
2008. His passion and engagement for South Africa arose from his
work experiences and trips through the country of the Cape of
Good Hope.