Tourism growth is one of the primary drivers of economic development and is a core strategy at local and national levels to improve the lives of local communities. However, tourism can bring both advantages and disadvantages to communities and not all national strategies in tourism management are applicable or suitable in private, community-based and public sectors. 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 and how nationally-set objectives such as economic growth, increased employment, poverty reduction, black economic empowerment, environmental sustainability and reduction of regional inequalities work at the grassroots level. Challenging ongoing practices and providing new innovations for tourism development applicable to other developing countries, this study will be useful for both researchers and decision makers in tourism.

旅游业增长是经济发展的主要动力之一，也是地方和国家层面改善当地社区生活的核心战略。然而，旅游业会给社区带来好处和坏处，并非所有国家的旅游管理战略都适用于或适合于私营、社区和公共部门。在许多后殖民国家，如纳米比亚、南非、博茨瓦纳和马达加斯加，旅游业被用作国家建设的主要工具。本书利用这些地区的案例研究，研究了旅游业增长的战略目标，以及国家设定的目标，如经济增长、增加就业、减少贫困、黑人经济赋权、环境可持续性和减少区域不平等，如何在基层发挥作用。本研究对正在进行的实践提出了挑战，并为适用于其他发展中国家的旅游业发展提供了新的创新，对旅游业的研究人员和决策者都很有用。