The Impacts of Tourism on Rural Livelihoods: Namibia's Experience

By C. Ashley. 2000

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• Pro-Poor Tourism: From Leakages to Linkages. A Conceptual Framework for Creating Linkages between the Accommodation Sector and ‘Poor’ Neighbouring Communities (2007, background): “…(2006) argues that the triple bottom line of economic, social and environmental concerns is heavily biased towards environmental considerations but neglects how the development impacts of tourism could be expanded to assist poor communities (e.g. Ashley, 2000; Goodwin, 1998; Goodwin et al., 1997).”
• The effects of tourism development on rural livelihoods in the Okavango Delta, Botswana (2010, background): “The SLF indicates that wellbeing, income, empowerment, health and reduced vulnerability are outcomes (Ashley, 2000; Chambers & Conway, 1992; Ellis, 2000; Scoones, 1998) in a development approach like CBNRM. Livelihoods and the quality of life at Khwai, Sankoyo and Mababe have improved after the…”
• Pro-Poor local economic development in South Africa: The role of pro-poor tourism (2006, background): “The introduction of a livelihoods approach allowed a broadened scope to the analysis of how the development impacts of tourism could be expanded to assist poor communities (Goodwin et al., 1997; Goodwin, 1998; Ashley, 1998; 2000).”
• Connecting the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and Tourism: A Review of the Literature (2008, background): “But in SL research with conventional livelihood strategies, there is little evidence to show local people’s desire for participation in decision-making processes ( Ashley, 2000 ).”
• A Livelihood Approach to Sustainability (2009, methodology): “…framework (Figure 1) can be used to guide the analysis of the diverse positive and negative consequences that different types of tourism can have on people’s asset base, portfolio of activities, the specific outcomes that they seek, and their influence over external organizations (Ashley, 2000).”
• Challenges and potential for linking tourism and agriculture to achieve pro-poor tourism objectives (2004, background): “Observed negative impacts of pro-poor tourism on local agriculture include: diverting land and water resources away from agriculture to support tourism or tourism-related urbanization (DFID, 1999a; Ashley, 2000; Goodwin, 2000; Shah and Gupta, 2000; Ashley et al., 2000); competition for time (labour)”
• Community-Based Tourism in Developing Countries: A Framework for Policy Evaluation (2019, background): “The ecotourism development policy [42] and guidelines community-based tourism development policy [46] are not legally established Acts, but policies that guide the development of specialized types of tourism by providing various strategies to be included in local and regional tourism development pla”
• Community Based Tourism in Namibia: ‘Reality Show’ or ‘Window Dressing’? (2007, methodology): “(Ashley, 2000: 8) Further to this, Ashley (2000) states that an assessment of tourism’s impact on local people must not only include direct costs and benefits, such as profits and jobs generated, but should also include a range of indirect, positive and negative impacts.”