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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia
Description: Joseph speaks with Linus about his recent research.AbstractHigh hopes are pinned on tourism and its catalytic potential to foster growth in remote rural areas. In the Zambezi region of northeastern Namibia, tourism plays a key role in the design of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes for nature conservation. Local communities form conservancies, small village-based entities of bottom-up nature conservation activities. These conservancies are granted rights for the use of natural resources, which are then transferred to tourism investors and trophy-hunting companies. Thus, conservancies partly determine tourism’s...