Do locals benefit from being in the ‘tourist capital’? Views from Livingstone, Zambia

dc.contributor.authorBwalya-Umar, Bridget
dc.contributor.authorMubanga, Kabwe Harnadih
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-22T12:34:31Z
dc.date.available2019-01-22T12:34:31Z
dc.date.issued2018-07
dc.description.abstractThis study used 268 household and 13 key informant interviews to get the views of Livingstone city residents on economic, environmental and sociocultural effects of tourism on local households and the city. Results show very few economic benefits at household level with residents perceiving big tourism-related businesses, the state and its officials to be the main beneficiaries. Although tourists were commended for helping vulnerable residents, they were blamed for contributing to prostitution and diseases by local residents; and were targeted for petty thefts by unemployed youths. Sociocultural effects of tourism are significant for residents but are routinely ignored or glossed over by tourism development practitioners. Tourism had resulted in a general improvement in the city environs. It is concluded that tourism development projects must target increased benefits for residents to increase benevolent attitudes from them towards tourism in their city, and to ensure a more sustainable variant of tourism is achieved in the tourist capital.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentGeography, Geoinformatics and Meteorologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThis publication is part of the first author’s research work at Umea University, thanks to a Swedish Institute Post-Doctoral Guest Researcher Scholarship.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/loi/thren_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBwalya-Umar, B. & Mubanga, K.H. 2018, 'Do locals benefit from being in the ‘tourist capital’? Views from Livingstone, Zambia', Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 333-345.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1467-3584 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1742-9692 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1177/1467358416663817
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/68206
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSageen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2016en_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable tourismen_ZA
dc.subjectVictoria Fallsen_ZA
dc.subjectSocioeconomic impactsen_ZA
dc.subjectNature-based tourismen_ZA
dc.subjectWorld heritage siteen_ZA
dc.titleDo locals benefit from being in the ‘tourist capital’? Views from Livingstone, Zambiaen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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