Indigenous Tourism Development in Southern Alberta, Canada: Tentative Engagement. By: Notzke, Claudia.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2004, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p29-54, 26p Abstract: This paper reviews
indigenous/aboriginal tourism, a rapidly evolving sector of the tourism industry and an important growth
sector in aboriginal economies, and examines the optimism expressed about its growth potential. Case studies
are given of the host, guest and intermediary relationships involved in aboriginal tourism in southern Alberta,
Canada, still at an early and tentative stage of development, despite the volume of travel taking place in this
area, the location of Canada's largest Indian reserves in this region, and world renowned attractions such as
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. It notes the lack of industry knowledge on the part of local aboriginal
operators, a lack of consumer awareness on the part of travellers and an underutilization of potentially
advantageous partnerships between local product suppliers and tour operators. Suggestions are made for the
professional development of an aboriginal tourism product; market reconnaissance and market development;
and the evolution of a partnership between aboriginal tourism product suppliers and the travel trade.
[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 13198786)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Community-based Tourism Enterprises Development in Kenya: An Exploration of Their Potential as Avenues
of Poverty Reduction. By: Manyara, Geoffrey; Jones, Eleri. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2007, Vol. 15
Issue 6, p628-644, 17p Abstract: The United Nations World Tourism Organization endorses tourism for
economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries, emphasising the role of micro-, smalland medium-sized tourism enterprises. In Kenya, community-based enterprises (CBEs) are preferred. This
paper evaluates CBE potential and challenges for poverty reduction in Kenya. Reviewing literature on Kenyan
tourism development, it uses case studies of six Kenyan CBEs spread across Kenya's tourism-focused
community-based initiatives selected using opportunistic and snowball sampling. The case studies used
individual in-depth semi-structured interviews with community leaders, CBEmanagers, tourism academics,
support organisations and government officials, and focus groups with community members. The paper
develops a detailed understanding of the CBEs, identifying the catalyst for their establishment and the role and
degree of external intervention. It explores critical success factors, the extent to which CBEs alleviate poverty,
and factors making communities welcome CBEs (or not). The results emphasise the conservation orientation of
CBEs, with support agencies preferring partnership approaches involving white investment which inadequately
addresses community priorities. Through foreign resource control and heavy reliance on donor funding, CBEs
promote neocolonialism and reinforce dependency. An urgent review of the support framework for community
tourism development in Kenya integrating the principles of sustainable development is advocated.
[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.2167/jost723.0; (AN 27464578)
A Cultural Encounter through Volunteer Tourism: Towards the Ideals of Sustainable Tourism? By: McIntosh,
Alison J.; Zahra, Anne. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2007, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p541-556, 16p Abstract:
International volunteering is increasingly recognised as a form of alternative tourism. However, the nature of
the ‘alternative’ experience gained, and the ensuing narrative between host and volunteer, remains underexplored in published research, especially in volunteer tourism research within a cultural context in a
developed nation. This paper examines the nexus between volunteer tourism and cultural tourism in the
search for alternative and sustainable experiences through tourism. Qualitative research using in-depth
interviews, diaries and participant observation was conducted to examine the pre-, during and post-trip
experiences of 12 Australian visitors undertaking organised volunteer activities in an indigenous Maori
community in the North Island of New Zealand during January 2005. Members of the indigenous Maori
community were also interviewed to provide an important host perspective. Findings suggest that the nature of
the interaction and cultural experiences gained were perceived as mutually beneficial and seemingly different
from those gained from traditional cultural products. In particular, the volunteers experienced an alternative
Maori cultural product and engaged in a different narrative with their Maori hosts through their volunteer work,
one rich in authentic cultural content, genuine and reflective of modern Maori life in New Zealand society.
[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
Venturing out in Dreamtime business. (cover story) By: Liston-Burgess, Gail. Ecos, Feb/Mar2007 Issue 135,
p26-29, 4p, 6c; Abstract: The article discusses issues concerning the indigenous culture and indigenous
tourism in Australia. An accreditation program called Respecting Our Culture was introduced by Aboriginal
Tourism Australia (ATA) to sustain business and environmental practices and determine cultural protocols.
Lois Peeler, chairman of the ATA, asserts that there is a big gap in terms of the difference between Western
education and Aboriginal education. Moreover, a mentoring program known as Business Ready Program,
which was created by the Department of Tourism, has taken successful businessmen on board to determine
ineffective business practices and ascertain positive results
World Heritage cultural landscapes: A UNESCO flagship programme 1992 – 2006. By: Rössler, Mechtild.
Landscape Research, Oct2006, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p333-353, 21p, 4 charts, 6c; Abstract: This paper reviews one
of the most important evolutions in the history of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of
the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention), namely, the interaction between culture
and nature and the development of the cultural landscape categories. The World Heritage Convention currently
covers 812 sites in 137 countries and is with 181 States Parties the most universal international legal
instrument in heritage conservation. Among the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, 53 sites are
recognized cultural landscapes focusing on the outstanding interaction between people and their environment.
The paper further explains key case studies from World Heritage cultural landscapes from all regions of the
world and highlights the innovations in the Convention's implementation through the landscape approach,
particularly focusing on the management of complex properties involving local communities and indigenous
people. The paper also outlines links to other international and regional Conventions and concludes with a
future outlook of the landscape programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1080/01426390601004210; (AN 23253389)
Memory Pieces and Footprints: Multivocality and the Meanings of Ancient Times and Ancestral Places among
the Zuni and Hopi. By: Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip; Ferguson, T. J.. American Anthropologist, Mar2006, Vol.
108 Issue 1, p148-162, 15p, 8bw; Abstract: The notion of the ‘contested past’ has grown to be an important
topic in anthropological research in recent decades, linking such themes as nationalism, identity, museology,
tourism, and war. In North America, these discussions have largely centered on archaeology's shifting
relationship with native peoples. As scholars give new attention to how research methodologies and
representation of cultural histories affect indigenous peoples, it is critical to understand the unique ways in
which Native Americans view their past. Contemporary Zuni and Hopi interpretations of ancestral landscapes in
the San Pedro Valley of Arizona are used to explore how indigenous worldviews imbue ancient places with
deep cultural and individual meanings. This research, based on a three-year collaborative ethnohistory project,
argues for resolution to the ‘contested past’ by incorporating a perspective of multivocality, which will enable
the creation of alternative histories that do not eschew scientific principles while respecting native values of
history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 20332371)
Notes: This title is held locally
Tourism and Sámi Identity – An Analysis of the Tourism‐Identity Nexus in a Sámi Community. By: Viken, Arvid.
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, Mar2006, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p7-24, 18p; Abstract: This article is a
study of the tourism‐identity nexus in a Sámi community called Karasjohka, often regarded as the Sámi
capital in Norway. The aim is, based on focus group interviews, to look at the importance of tourism as a
parameter for identity negotiations. The study indicates the existence of a strong Sámi ethos, but people have
multiple roles and in many of these the Sáminess is of minor importance. The relation to tourists or to tourism
as such seems to be handled through non‐Sámi roles. The study unveiled three main reactions to tourism; the
first one is to be irritated – by the way the tourism industry handles Sámi culture, and by the fact that the most
profitable parts of the business is in the hands of non‐Sámi; the second one is called reflexive rejection –
tourism is maintained to be of minimal importance for cultural and identity issues; and the third one is called
discursive awareness – people admitting that tourism is a significant institution and as such being part of the
contexts that over time forms their views of themselves, their culture and of the outer world. [ABSTRACT
FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1080/15022250600560604; (AN 20573577)
The Dialectic of Identities in the Field of Tourism. The Discourses of the Indigenous Sámi in Defining their own
and the Tourists' Identities. By: Tuulentie, Seija. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, Mar2006, Vol.
6 Issue 1, p25-36, 12p; Abstract: The modernity of indigenous people has often been denied, and this is
especially true in the field of tourism where indigeneity works as a part of tourism marketing. From the more
critical angle tourism has been seen as a cause of decline in preexisting local indigenous identities. However,
these perspectives neglect the fact that the indigenous people themselves know nowadays what it is to be a
tourist and how to act in the field of tourism. This article deals with the case of indigenous Sámi people and
shows that instead of being passive victims the Sámi are active participants in constructing their own identities
as well as the identities of the tourists visiting their home regions. The article analyses the discourses of the
Sámi focus groups interviewed in Finland, Sweden and Norway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1080/15022250600560596; (AN 20573574)
Making Differences in a Changing World: The Norwegian Sámi in the Tourist Industry. By: Olsen, Kjell.
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, Mar2006, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p37-53, 17p, 4c; Abstract: This article
analyses the representation of the Norwegian Sámi in local and regional tourist brochures and at tourist sites.
The argument put forward is that these representations give an impression of the Sámi that perpetuates their
image as radically different from Norwegians. The main reason for this is the conceptual difference between
tradition and a single all embracing modernity found in Western thought. To become something to see, a tourist
attraction, indigenous peoples have to keep alive an image where features assumed to be modern have no
place. This is not an image that only relates to a global discourse. By analysing the sites tourists encounter, it is
shown how these exposures are embedded in different local and national discourses that still have
consequences in the contemporary everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1080/15022250600560570; (AN 20573575)
Sámi Heritage at the Winter Festival in Jokkmokk, Sweden. By: Müller, Dieter K.; Pettersson, Robert.
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, Mar2006, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p54-69, 16p, 1 chart, 1 diagram, 1
map, 1bw; Abstract: Indigenous tourism is an expansive sector in the growing tourism industry. However, the
tourist experience of the indigenous heritage is often delimited to staged culture in museums, exhibitions and
festivals. In this paper, focus is put on the annual Sámi winter festival in Jokkmokk, Sweden. It is discussed to
what extent this festival truly is an indigenous event. This is accomplished by scrutinizing the Sámi
representation at the festival regarding its content and its spatial location. It is argued that the available
indigenous heritage is highly staged, although backstage experiences are available for the Sámi and for the
curious tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1080/15022250600560489; (AN 20573576)
Keeping World Heritage in the Family: A Genealogy of Maya Labour at Chichén Itzá. By: Breglia, Lisa.
International Journal of Heritage Studies, Dec2005, Vol. 11 Issue 5, p385-398, 14p, 2bw; Abstract: This
account of the everyday politics of the World Heritage archaeological site of Chichén Itzá (Yucatán, Mexico)
contributes to a new impulse in the study of heritage and tourism: the interests and participation of multiple
publics in the production of sites of national cultural identities and international tourism. For decades, Maya
residents in and around Chichén Itzá have been employed in the site’s excavation, maintenance, and
protection. For these indigenous heritage workers, patrimonial claims to the site are based not on the
monuments themselves but on inherited job positions. The transformation of these workers into a local elite has
occasioned contentious broader community politics as other local residents advocate opening the site’s benefit
stream to a wider group of stakeholders. This case study thus addresses the role played by heritage workers in
the micro‐politics of patrimony at a World Heritage Site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1080/13527250500337421; (AN 18807124)
Trans-boundary Environmental Actors: The Zambezi Society's Campaign for Sustainable Tourism
Development in the Zambezi Bioregion. By: Sithole, Elijah. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2005, Vol. 13
Issue 5, p486-503, 18p; Abstract: This paper analyses the changing roles of Non-Governmental Organisations
(NGOs) as trans-boundary actors in environmental management and sustainable tourism development in
Southern Africa. It specifically examines the lead role played by the Zambezi Society (ZAMSOC) in
campaigning for, and promoting, sustainable tourism in the Zambezi ecoregion. ZAMSOC has made
significant strides in key areas, notably safeguarding the wilderness and wetlands of the Zambezi River system
by opposing environmentally damaging tourism infrastructure; developing guidelines for wilderness-sensitive
tourism practices; encouraging greater cross-border cooperation; designing pollution control measures and
lobbying for more profound partnerships between the tourism industry and local communities to achieve a
fairer distribution of tourism profits for host communities. In this regard, ZAMSOC's pioneering concept of
trans-border `People's Conservancies' is but one example. While acknowledging ZAMSOC's achievements, the
paper argues that the workload for the NGO may undermine its effectiveness in the long term considering that
it operates in a context where new social movements, especially the environmental movement, are not deeply
rooted among indigenous communities. However, despite these challenges, ZAMSOC's activities are
reflective of how environmental activism transcends geophysical and geopolitical boundaries effectively
championing the quest for sustainable tourism in ecologically sensitive bioregions. [ABSTRACT FROM
AUTHOR]; (AN 18925066)
Tourism: A Facilitator of Social Awareness in an Indigenous Mexican Community? By: Greathouse-Amador,
Louisa M.. Review of Policy Research, Sep2005, Vol. 22 Issue 5, p709-720, 12p; Abstract: As Latin American
economies and cultures become increasingly tied to a global political, economic, and social order, indigenous
and other marginalized people find themselves at a crossroads where their cultural survival is challenged.
Tourism is one important aspect of this new economic order and it is often one of the few resources remaining
in countries such as Mexico whose economy has been tied more directly to interests of dominating leaders
contributing to this new world order. And while many observers note that tourism often has an exploitative
impact on indigenous and marginalized people, this article examines the contradictions in tourism, identifying
those economic spaces where the indigenous people have been successful in renegotiating their position with
the dominant mestizo group in their community. This article offers provocative insights about the impact of
tourism on indigenous people in a community in the northern mountains (Sierra Norte) in Puebla, México. It
examines the potential contradictions in tourism under the economic conditions of neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT
FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2005.00167.x; (AN 18316318)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Conservation costs: Nature-based tourism as development at Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. By:
Rugendyke, Barbara; Nguyen Thi Son. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Aug2005, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p185-200, 16p;
Abstract: Local communities are frequently displaced from areas selected for environmental protection.
Development of nature-based tourism, believed to be more environmentally benign than traditional agricultural
systems, has been encouraged by governments and national park managers in the hope of providing
alternative livelihoods for local people. This paper examines the extent to which indigenous peoples resettled
from within one Vietnamese national park have engaged with the nascent tourism industry, thereby providing a
perspective on the success of their resettlement, through the eyes of those communities affected. The
perspectives of resettled peoples are contrasted with those of villagers who have continued to reside within the
national park, using traditional means of survival, along with new initiatives designed to supplement their
livelihoods and to reduce their dependence on national park resources for survival. Resettled villagers are
unable to survive on agricultural activity alone, tourism has done little to provide an alternate livelihood and the
park environment is still threatened by the use of park resources by resettled communities in their struggle to
survive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2005.00265.x; (AN 17909656)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Rethinking Ainu Heritage: A Case Study of an Ainu Settlement in Hokkaido, Japan. By: Cheung, Sidney.
International Journal of Heritage Studies, Jul2005, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p197-210, 14p; Abstract: With the
colonisation of Hokkaido since the Meiji era, Western technologies were introduced to Japan, but the
indigenous inhabitants'—the Ainu people's—ways of life were negatively affected because of the assimilation
policy. Since the late 1950s, ethnic tourism in Ainu settlements has grown and Ainu hosts in traditional
costumes were often seen in various tourist destinations in Hokkaido; Lake Akan was not exceptional. In this
paper, the historic development of an Ainu settlement is explained, and the contested meanings of Ainu
traditions and the social construction of Ainu culture in post-war Japanese society from the cultural-political
perspectives is investigated. With the focus on the Ainu settlement at Lake Akan, the paper looks closely into
the changing indigenous living environments and relevant activities held during the last several decades in
order to discern how Ainu heritage has been preserved and promoted as well as the social transformation that
Ainu people have undergone in the face of globalising Japanese society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1080/13527250500160500; (AN 17342826)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Public support for tourism SMEs in peripheral areas: The arjeplog project, northern sweden. By: Nilsson, Per
Åke; Petersen, Tage; Wanhill, Stephen. Service Industries Journal, Jun2005, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579-599, 21p, 6
charts, 2 diagrams; Abstract: Within the European Union, the tourism issues facing many peripheral areas are
similar to those elsewhere in the world. Beginning in the late 1980s, the emphasis of thinking in the Union
moved away from large automatic grants to attract inward investment projects, towards small firms and
indigenous development. As party to this thinking, tourism SMEs have been assigned an important role in the
process of regional convergence. While investment subsidies remain a key instrument, they have been
supplemented by technical support to tailor assistance to the needs of the individual firm. The latter aspect is
an important plank in Swedish regional policy, which sees investing in human competencies as the core to
innovative development at the local level. This paper examines the progress and the outcomes of a four-year
programme to upgrade the level of business skills in eight tourism SMEs, which are located in the sparsely
populated regions of northern Sweden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1080/02642060500092436;
(AN 17384872)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Tourism and Policy in Preserving Minority Languages and Culture: The Cuetzalan Experience. By:
Greathouse-Amador, Louisa M.. Review of Policy Research, Jan2005, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p49-58, 10p; Abstract:
This article outlines the sociolinguistic environment in Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexico, and how the evolution of
tourism influenced, in what appears to be a positive way, the preservation and maintenance of Nahuat, the
language spoken by the Nahua Indians of this area. There are many remarkable consequences to this story,
however, this article will concentrate on the principal movers, indigenous women, and how their proactive
solution to economic hardship led to language preservation. With the focus on language usage, much of the
community culture and traditions are recovered and revivified. This study focuses on the situation of a particular
group of Nahua women who joined together and formed an economic cooperative to improve their very limited
existence. Through diligent work with an implicit policy of self-determination, they succeeded in organizing
themselves into different work areas as well as investing time to educate themselves. A majority of the women
began promoting tourism and in return tourism appears to have been a very important factor that motivated
them to revive and maintain their language, culture, and traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1111/j.1541-1338.2005.00118.x; (AN 15609686)
Mountain Places, Cultural Spaces: The Interpretation of Culturally Significant Landscapes. By: Carr, Anna.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2004, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p432-459, 28p; Abstract: This paper presents an
overview of how national park interpretation in New Zealand is incorporating Mäori perspectives of cultural
landscapes. Since the formation of the Department of Conservation in 1987, interpretive material containing
information about the relationship between local iwi (Mäori tribal groups) and natural areas has increased. Cooperative management strategies have been instigated by the Department to ensure that interpretation
conveying Mäori perspectives and cultural values for the landscape is accurate and authorised by iwi members.
The paper analyses the findings from a survey that asked visitors about their experiences of the cultural
interpretation at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. At this site, Department of Conservation staff aim to(1)
increase visitors' understanding of the Mäori relationship to the land and (2) direct appropriate visitor behaviour
whilst in the area. Many survey respondents were unaware of the relationship between Maori and the area prior
to their visit, despite reporting cultural activities and experiences with indigenous peoples as travel motivators.
On-site interpretation contributed to raising visitors' awareness that the landscape has special significance to
local iwi, thus providing a cultural dimension to the visitors' experiences at this internationally renowned natural
area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 14833406)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Tourist Aesthetics in the Global Flow: Orientalism and “Warrior Theatre” on the Swahili Coast. By: Kasfir,
Sidney L.. Visual Anthropology, Jul-Dec2004, Vol. 17 Issue 3/4, p319-343, 25p, 14bw; Abstract: In this article I
bring together two strands of history, namely a longstanding Swahili Coast mercantilism seen in the context of
a very permeable ocean frontier, and the much more recent experience of modernity, in some kind of mutual
dialogue which engages both global and local outcomes. The broad topic I explore is the development of the
Swahili Coast as a tourism “destination” in the late twentieth century. As an art historian, I am particularly
interested in the effects of this latest invasion of foreigners (at its peak in the mid-1980s, though lately slowed
to a trickle) on material culture, and on the production of identities through its objects and the artists (some of
them indigenous and some not) who make them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1080/089460490468171; (AN 14573360)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Indigenous Tourism Development in Southern Alberta, Canada: Tentative Engagement. By: Notzke, Claudia.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2004, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p29-54, 26p; Abstract: This paper reviews
indigenous/aboriginal tourism, a rapidly evolving sector of the tourism industry and an important growth
sector in aboriginal economies, and examines the optimism expressed about its growth potential. Case studies
are given of the host, guest and intermediary relationships involved in aboriginal tourism in southern Alberta,
Canada, still at an early and tentative stage of development, despite the volume of travel taking place in this
area, the location of Canada's largest Indian reserves in this region, and world renowned attractions such as
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. It notes the lack of industry knowledge on the part of local aboriginal
operators, a lack of consumer awareness on the part of travellers and an underutilization of potentially
advantageous partnerships between local product suppliers and tour operators. Suggestions are made for the
professional development of an aboriginal tourism product; market reconnaissance and market development;
and the evolution of a partnership between aboriginal tourism product suppliers and the travel trade.
[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 13198786)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Encounters with Aboriginal Sites in Metropolitan Sydney: A Broadening Horizon for Cultural Tourism? By:
Hinkson, Melinda. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2003, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p295, 12p; Abstract: Examines the
aboriginal sites in Sydney. Role of abopriginality in the promotion of Australia; Aboriginal pespectives
incorporated to the metropolitan landscape of Sydney; Implication of developments for visitor experience and
tourism.; (AN 11354377)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Sustaining Indigenous Peoples in the Wilderness areas of Scandinavia and North-West Russia. By: Ireland,
Michael. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, Sep2003, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p71-81, 11p; Abstract: This
paper explores the concept of indigenous people and its use by the tourist industry and the academic
community. This is important because the discourse used about the people we come into contact with will have
consequences for the beliefs we hold about them and any social action. The question to be addressed is
whether the concept of indigenous peoples is any less value laden than other terms like "primitive peoples",
"tribes" or "native peoples". The paper concludes that indigenous people are an important resource for the
tourist industry. These indigenous cultures must be able to grow and change, if people's livelihood is to be
sustained in the peripheral regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 10955994)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Cultural Displays and Tourism in Africa and the Americas. By: Adams, Kathleen M.. Ethnohistory,
Summer2003, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p567-573, 7p; Abstract: Reflects on articles in the Summer 2003 special issue of
the journal "Ethnohistory" which focus on how issues of indigenous representation and identity are worked out
in the context of different kinds of tourism. Dynamic relationship between touristic displays and identity
negotiation; Politics of identity displays; Tourism and Maya migration to Cancún, Mexico.; (AN 11452774)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Staged Encounters: Postmodern Tourism and Aboriginal People. By: Harkin, Michael. Ethnohistory,
Summer2003, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p575-585, 11p; Abstract: Focuses on the relationship between postmodern
tourism and aboriginal people. History of the scholarly study of tourism as a cultural phenomenon;
Reappropriation of cultural meanings embedded in tourist practice; Indians' use of a variety of semiotic and
performance techniques to effect a double framing of touristic sites.; (AN 11452778)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Politicizing Aboriginal Cultural Tourism: The Discourse of Primitivism in the Tourist Encounter*. By:
Deutschlander, Siegrid; Miller, Leslie J.. Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, Feb2003, Vol. 40
Issue 1, p27-44, 18p Abstract (English): Aboriginal cultural tourism is a potentially high-growth segment of the
Canadian tourism industry that is currently enjoying widespread demand among Europeans, especially
German visitors. This paper uses a discourse analysis approach to examine the tourist encounter at various
Aboriginal tourist sites in southern Alberta. It analyses the negotiation of "Indianness" and Indian culture by
both Native interpreters and foreign visitors. These negotiations are shown to be informed by the primitivist
discourse that, ironically, reinforces the Enlightenment notion of the "noble savage." We argue that, despite its
colonialist and essentialist aspects, the primitivist discourse can nevertheless function as a strategy of
resistance to a social system viewed by many First Nations as politically oppressive. [ABSTRACT FROM
AUTHOR] (AN 9586430)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
NGOs, gender and indigenous grassroots development. By: Momsen, Janet Henshall. Journal of International
Development, Aug2002, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p859-867, 9p; Abstract: This paper looks at two very similar efforts by
indigenous communities to develop a tourist attraction based on their own culture and to market it in two very
different environments: California and Mexico. Both groups have been displaced from their traditional areas,
are being advised by a woman consultant and are expecting women community members to provide cultural
performances and crafts for sale to visitors. Unlike the NGOs involved, the communities see this tourism
activity as a reclamation and reaffirmation of a culture that has been almost lost, rather than as an exercise in
local economic development. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
DOI: 10.1002/jid.930; (AN 17072652)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism: The houseboats of Kerala. By: Kokkranikal, Jithendran; Morrison,
Alison. Tourism & Hospitality Research, Jul2002, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p7, 14p; Abstract: Within developing countries
it has been identified that one means of achieving sustainable tourism is through the effective engagement of
local communities. In particular, this involves the encouragement of indigenous entrepreneurship, often in the
forms of self-employment and small-scale enterprises. The aim is to maximise potential economic and social
benefits of tourism development within the host destinations. This paper provides a conceptual framework and
descriptive case study within which to analyse an example of indigenous entrepreneurship as evidence in the
operators of a houseboat tourism product in the State of Kerala, India. Conclusions are drawn relative to the
sustainability of both the product and indigenous entrepreneurial activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN
7098480)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Nomadic Savages, Ochre People and Heroic Herders: Visual Presentations of the Himba of Namibia's
Kaokoland. By: Bollig, Michael; Heinemann, Heike. Visual Anthropology, Jul2002, Vol. 15 Issue 3/4, p267-312,
46p; Abstract: The pastoral Himba of Namibia's semiarid northwest have been objects of colonizing and
globalizing cameras over the last century. They have been presented as isolated, subsistence-oriented
herders, savage beauties, polygamous patriarchs, and persistent desert dwellers. Timelessness and
marginality have been salient topics of the visual presentations of herders in Namibia's semiarid northwest.
Today, Namibia's discourse on "the indigenous" is frequently pictured with images of the Himba. Especially
Himba women were made the focus of the media gaze. Visual images of Himba women seemingly fill the need
for esthetic presentation and offer a platform for imaginations and desires. This article seeks to describe how
and why the Himba, and Himba women especially, became icons of a romanticized and estheticized Africa
within a global discourse. After discussing early maps and early colonial photography, the heydays of the
"Colonizing Camera" are outlined. The colonial "visual attack" was three-pronged: colonial officials seeking
assertion for their ideas of indirect rule and of white supremacy, the settler elite looking for pleasure in an
undisturbed natural world and frequently conflating nature and people in their photographic presentations, and
finally scientists seeking for answers to various "scientific enigmas" and ethnographic descriptions before an
"ancient culture" would finally fade away. Finally, visual representations after 1990--Namibia's year of
Independence--are analyzed. Three visual themes are dominating discourses at the turn of the millennium: the
endangered indigenous world, the esthetic and erotic appeal of indigenous women, and the many attractions
of cultural tourism targeting an authentic indigenous lifestyle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 10955852)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Sami tourism in northern Sweden: Measuring tourists' opinions using stated preference methodology. By:
Pettersson, Robert. Tourism & Hospitality Research, Apr2002, Vol. 3 Issue 4, p357, 14p, 6 charts, 1 graph, 1
map; Abstract: Presents a study which explored the supply and demand for Sami tourism in Sweden. Demand
for indigenous tourism; Increase in the number of Sami tourism entrepreneurs; Correlation between stated
preferences and price/accessibility.; (AN 6769260)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
DISAPPEARING CULTURE? GLOBALISATION AND A CANARY ISLAND FISHING COMMUNITY. By:
Macleod, Donald. History & Anthropology, Mar2002, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p53-67, 15p; Abstract: This article looks at
a Canary Island fishing community, examining its interactions with global processes that are seen as part of a
development stretching back to the first Spanish colonisers. The focus is on recent events including tourism,
and the article depicts the fishing culture and analyses whether such a thing can be said to be disappearing. It
is argued that the indigenous individuals, foreign settlers and tourists involved are all active agents in the
globalisation process. Furthermore, the particular type of tourism has specific influences that are broad and
deep and impact on the local economy, gender roles, relationships, and attitudes towards the environment and
business strategies. The identity of the village is also examined and found to retain its links with fishing.
However, some elements of the local culture are certainly disappearing. Although in contrast, other elements
have been strengthened by global processes. [ABSTRACT FROM]; (AN 7154859)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Tourism, livelihoods and protected areas: opportunities for fair-trade tourism in and around National parks. By:
Goodwin, Harold; Roe, Dilys. International Journal of Tourism Research, Sep/Oct2001, Vol. 3 Issue 5, p377391, 15p, 8 charts; Abstract: The development and implementation of ‘alternative livelihood projects’ by donor
agencies and conservation organisations has become one of the most commonly-applied management
prescriptions to alleviate existing or potential conflicts between protected areas and local livelihoods. The use
of these projects is a common feature of so-called Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs).
In most cases, the promotion of these initiatives are undertaken as extensions of protected area programmes
and often take place in buffer zones. Examples of projects that seek to improve local livelihoods in and around
protected areas are common, and many of them have a tourism component. However, the results of tourism
components of ICDPs have often been disappointing with local people benefiting little from tourism revenues.
Nevertheless, many national parks are major tourist attractions in rural, and often marginal, areas and do offer
significant opportunities for indigenous enterprise development. People living in and around these protected
areas often have high expectations of what tourism could offer them. Using data collected in the south east
lowveld of Zimbabwe for the DFID Tourism, Conservation and Sustainable Development project an analysis of
local people's expectations of tourism is presented. The survey covered nine villages and there are significant
differences in the responses. Local people were asked about their experience of tourism and their aspirations,
including their preferred ways of earning money from tourism. Finally an analysis of their perceptions of the
barriers to their involvement in the industry is presented. The paper then addresses the ways in which a
national park or conservancy might respond to these aspirations and seek to involve local people in tourism
enabling them to secure all or part of their livelihood from tourism related employment or entrepreneurial
activity. An analysis of the preferences of tourists surveyed... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI:
10.1002/jtr.350; (AN 17074040)
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Access to Sami Tourism in Northern Sweden. By: Müller, Dieter K.; Pettersson, Robert. Scandinavian Journal
of Hospitality & Tourism, May2001, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p5-18, 14p; Abstract: In recent years, there has been
increased development of indigenous tourism as part of the tourism industry. Even the Sami of Northern
Sweden are now engaging in tourism, not least because the restructuring of reindeer herding has forced them
into taking up other occupations. The purpose of this article is to analyse the potential of the emerging Sami
tourism in Sweden, with special emphasis on access to Sami tourism products. The analysis uses the four H
approach outlined by V. L. Smith – habitat, heritage, history and handicraft. The article starts with a short
description of the Sami and their culture, followed by a discussion of the relationship between the Sami and
tourism in northern Sweden. Smith's concept is then introduced, modified and applied in relation to the new
Sami tourism development in the area. The analysis is based on a survey of all 68 Sami tourist attractions and
projects in Swedish Lapland in 1999. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; (AN 10900804)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Multinational hotel development in developing countries: an exploratory analysis of critical policy
issues<FNR></FNR><FN>This article is derived from Kusluvan, S. (1994). “Multi-national Enterprises in
Tourism: A Case Study of Turkey”.... By: Kusluvan, Salih; Karamustafa, Kurtulus. International Journal of
Tourism Research, May/Jun2001, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p179-197, 19p, 4 charts, 2 diagrams; Abstract: Multinational
hotel companies, often integrated with tour operators, travel agencies and other businesses in touristgenerating or tourist-receiving countries, play a key role in the development and continuity of an international
tourism industry in developing countries. In order to take advantage of benefits and minimise the unwanted
adverse effects from multinational hotel involvement, developing countries need the planning, implementation
and evaluation of carefully designed policies linked to their particular objectives. This paper reviews the
potential benefits and costs of multinational hotel companies and brings together previously scattered critical
policy issues in relation to them, while suggesting possible options for developing countries to follow. Seven
critical policy areas are identified: establishment of the need for foreign investment; deciding on forms of
involvement; deciding on the scale of hotel development; supporting sectoral linkages; supporting indigenous
employment/training; monitoring business practices; and determining foreign investment incentives and
regulations. It is argued that policies should be worked out in these areas and co-ordinated in order to achieve
a balance between the benefits and costs of multinational hotel involvement in developing countries. Copyright
&#169; 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1002/jtr.293; (AN 17074018)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
Pathways in the Periphery: Tourism to Indigenous Communities in Panama. By: Snow, Steven G.; Wheeler,
Cheryl L.. Social Science Quarterly (University of Texas Press), Sep2000, Vol. 81 Issue 3, p732-749, 18p;
Abstract: The article examines the effects of tourism on Indian and indigenous communities in Panama. The
article analyzes, in comparative perspective, tourism to two indigenous nations in Panama, the Kuna and the
Embera/Wounaan. The central data upon which the paper is based consist of forty-two interviews with Indians,
conducted at twelve different tourist locations in Panama; sixteen interviews and ten firms altering tours to
indigenous communities in 1996-97; and interviews and informal discussions with government officials,
biologists, members of nongovernmental environmental organizations, and academic specialists in indigenous
affairs. A comparative analysis of tourism to two indigenous nations in Panama, the Kuna and the
Embera/Wounaan, effectively allows for sonic conclusions regarding ethnic tourism that can be usefully
applied more generally to help guide future research. In short, while there are some unavoidable negative
effects associated with tourism, indigenous communities can ameliorate some problems by formulating a
clear plan and educating the members of their communities as to its contents. Benefits are maximized when
indigenous peoples are informed and guided by their own leaders.; (AN 3832569)
Notes: This title is not available from the library collection
AUTHOR MERCER, D.
TITLE Native peoples and tourism : conflict and compromise
DATE 1994
LANGUAGE English
EDITION 1
PLACE Oxford
PUBLISHER Butterworth-Heinemann
SOURCE Global Tourism : the next decade
PAGE p. 124-145
ISBN 0750623535
SHELFNO 338.4791 GLO
DESCRIPTOR TOURISM
; INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS
; AUSTRALIA
; BLACKS
; COMMUNITIES
$
AUTHOR ROBINSON, D.W.
; TWYNAM, D.
TITLE Alternative tourism, indigenous peoples, and environment : the case of
Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park, Nepal
DATE 1996
LANGUAGE English
SOURCE Environments
VOL 23 (3)
PAGE p. 13-35
SHELFNO P710 ENV
DESCRIPTOR ENVIRONMENT
; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
; ALTERNATIVE TOURISM
; NEPAL
; SAGARMATHA NATIONAL PARK
; NATIONAL PARKS
; TOURISM
$
AUTHOR *
TITLE Report. Indigenous cultural tourism : 1997 Fulbright Symposium
DATE 1998
LANGUAGE English
SOURCE Tourism Management
VOL 19 (1)
PAGE p. 103-106
ISBN 0261-5177
SHELFNO P796 TOU
DESCRIPTOR 1997
; SYMPOSIA
; INDIGENOUS CULTURE
$
AUTHOR HALL, C.M. ed.
; LEW, A.A. ed.
TITLE Sustainable tourism
DATE 1998
LANGUAGE English
PLACE London
PUBLISHER Longman
PAGE 236 p.
ISBN 0582322626
SHELFNO 338.4791 SUS
DESCRIPTOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
; DEVELOPMENT
; ECO TOURISM
; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
; CULTURE
; RECREATION
; ASIA PACIFIC AREA
; CURRY COUNTY
; NATURE BASED TOURISM
; DEVON AND CORNWALL RAIL PARTNERSHIP
; TRANSPORT
; NEPAL
; QUEBEC
; ANNAPURNA CONSERVATION AREA PROJECT
; NEW ZEALAND
; URBAN TOURISM
; FORT EDMONTON PARK
$
AUTHOR VAN VEUREN, E. J.
TITLE Capitalising on indigenous cultures
DATE 2003
LANGUAGE English
SOURCE Africa insight
VOL 33 ( 1/2 )
PAGE p.69-77
ISBN 0256-2804
SHELFNO P320 AFR
DESCRIPTOR CULTURAL VILLAGES
; INDIGENOUS CULTURE
; SOUTH AFRICA
; TOURISM
$
AUTHOR JANSEN VAN VUUREN, E.
TITLE Cultural Village tourism in South Africa: capitalising on indigenous
cultures
DATE 2004
LANGUAGE English
PLACE Pretoria
PUBLISHER Lesedi Printers
SOURCE Tourism and development issues in contemporary South Africa
PAGE p. 139-160
ISBN 0798301821
SHELFNO 338.479168 TOU
DESCRIPTOR CULTURAL VILLAGES
; TOURISM
; INDIGENOUS CULTURE
; DEVELOPMENT
; CULTURE
$
AUTHOR HANNAM, K.
TITLE Tourism management issues in India's National Parks: An analysis of the
Rajiv Gandhi (Nagarahole) National Park
DATE 2005
LANGUAGE English
SOURCE Current issues in tourism
VOL 8 (2-3)
PAGE p. 165-180
ISBN 1368-3500
SHELFNO P330 CUR
DESCRIPTOR INDIA
; NATIONAL PARKS
; TOURISM MANAGEMENT
; INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
$
AUTHOR NOTZKE, C.
TITLE Indigenous tourism development in Southern Alberta, Canada: tentative
engagement
DATE 2004
LANGUAGE English
SOURCE Journal of sustainable tourism
VOL 12 (1)
PAGE p. 29-54
ISBN 0966-9582
SHELFNO P330 JOU
DESCRIPTOR ETHNIC TOURISM
; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS
; CULTURE
; INDIGENOUS CULTURE
$
NUMBER 181927
AUTHOR WANG, Y.
; WALL, G.
TITLE Sharing the benefits of tourism: A case study in Hainan, China
DATE 2005
SOURCE Environments
VOL 33 (1)
PAGE p. 41-59
SHELFNO P710 ENV
DESCRIPTOR CHINA
; PLANNING
; TOURISM
; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
; SHARING
; BENEFITS
; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
; RURAL AREAS
$
TI: Contested forests: modern conservation and historical land use in Guinea's Ziama reserve.
AU: Fairhead,-J; Leach,-M
AD: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK.
SO: African-Affairs. 1994; 93(373): 481-512
RE: ref.
MS: 3 fig., 2 tab.
PY: 1994
LA: English
AB: Many of West Africa's high forest areas were reserved during the colonial period for commercial or
environmental reasons. Today these are seen as important sites for the conservation of biodiversity,
wildlife, climate, soils and hydrology, concerns which satisfy global and regional environmental agendas,
but which are not necessarily shared by local populations who have other needs to use land and
resources within reserves. The wisdom of colonially-derived forest conservation approaches based on
policing externally-imposed reserves has recently been questioned, not least because of their expense
and the politically unsustainable conflicts they have provoked between forest-edge communities and
reserve administrations. Instead, attempts are now made to secure the support of forest-edge
populations by linking conservation to the provision of socioeconomic benefits, whether in the form of
reserve products (e,g, non-timber forest products, shares of eco-tourism revenues), or of
'compensatory' rural development activities. The paper examines how forest histories have important
implications for how one understands both forest ecology and people's social and political relationships
with currently forested land. The case examined, of the Ziama reserve, Guinea, suggests how far
overlooking such histories can undermine constructive dialogue between local people and conservation
agencies.
DE: forestry-; history-; conservation-; colonialism-; conflict-; resource-utilization; forest-management;
environmental-management; ethnic-groups; indigenous-knowledge; forests-; reserved-forests; natureconservation; sociology-; nature-reserves; socioeconomics-; rural-development; plant-genetic-resources
*LHM: Main Library
Record 2 of 5 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Designating a protected area at Karanambu ranch, Rupununi savannah, Guyana: resource
management and indigenous communities.
AU: Shackley,-M
SO: Ambio-. 1998; 27(3): 207-210
RE: 19 ref.
PY: 1998
LA: English
AB: In 1995, the feasibility of designating Karanambu ranch in the northern Rupununi savannah,
Guyana, as a protected area was assessed. Karanambu is one of Guyana's leading ecotourism
destinations, popular because of the well-publicised interest of its owner in conserving the endangered
giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). It had been suggested that such a protected area could be
financed by expanding the existing ecotourism operations and connected with development
programmes benefiting local Macusi Amerindian communities. However, questions soon emerged
concerning potential conflicts with Amerindian land rights and the effect that a protected area would
have on traditional resource-management practices. Fieldwork was carried out between April and
November 1995 involving Rapid Rural Appraisal of local indigenous Macusi communities, combined with
an Environmental Impact Analysis at Karanambu. The study recommended the establishment of a
research station at Karanambu accompanied by a small Nature Reserve, rather than a more extensive
protected area. This station, already under construction, will provide a focus for visiting scientists and
increase the sustainable ecotourism potential of the ranch. It is to be combined with wildlife farming to
provide additional employment and economic opportunities for local communities.
DE: nature-tourism; resource-management; rural-communities; indigenous-knowledge; reservedareas; nature-conservation; environmental-protection; case-studies; land-use; land-management;
environmental-management; biodiversity-; wildlife*LHM: Main Library
Record 3 of 5 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Rock art sites in Victoria, Australia: a management history framework.
AU: Clark,-I-D
AD: School of Business, University of Ballarat, PO Box 663, Ballarat, VIC 3353, Australia.
EM: i.clark@ballarat.edu.au
SO: Tourism-Management. 2002; 23(5): 455-464
PB: Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press.
RE: 29 ref.
DOI: doi:10.1016/S0261-5177(02)00011-0
PY: 2002
LA: English
AB: A recent examination of the management histories of a select number of rock art sites in the
Grampians-Gariwerd National Park in southwest Victoria, Australia, has found that management
decisions, research, and site interventions were often taking place in ignorance of what had gone
before. Heritage site management is often conducted in an ad hoc manner with limited understanding
of past planning and management. A framework for understanding the management history of
indigenous rock art sites is presented. With some modification the framework could be applied to other
indigenous cultural sites.
DE: aborigines-; cultural-tourism; culture-; heritage-areas; heritage-tourism; historic-sites; indigenousknowledge; management-; national-parks; traditional-society
*LHM: Main Library
Record 4 of 5 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Capitalising on indigenous cultures: cultural village tourism in South Africa.
AU: Veuren,-E-J-van
AD: Department of Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
SO: Africa-Insight. 2003; 33(1/2): 69-77
AT: Special edition: Tourism and development in Africa
PB: Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Institute of South Africa.
RE: 30 notes and ref.
PY: 2003
LA: English
AB: In the context of cultural village tourism in South Africa, this paper investigates the connections
between cultural capital and economic value. Specifically, it examines: (1) what additional resources are
required to realize the value of culture through cultural tourism, and how the distribution of these
resources shaped participation in cultural tourism; (2) whether traditional knowledge and skills are
economically valuable resources; and (3) who owns cultural resources, and what rights are associated
with cultural resource ownership. These are addressed by examining evidence from a national survey of
cultural villages undertaken during 1999-2000, and case studies of Shangana Cultural Village in
Mpumalanga and the Basotho Cultural Village in the Free State. An important finding from this paper is
that care should be taken with assumptions that tourism based on indigenous culture will necessary
produce significant developmental benefit for indigenous people. This can only come about if
indigenous people have the necessary resources, or they have recognized rights to their heritage.
DE: cultural-heritage; cultural-tourism; culture-; economic-development; economic-impact;
indigenous-knowledge; intellectual-property-rights; ownership-; tourism-impact; traditional-society
*LHM: Main Library,Africana Main Library
Record 5 of 5 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Conflict resolution by participatory management: remote sensing and GIS as tools for
communicating land-use needs for reindeer herding in Northern Sweden.
AU: Sandstrom,-P; Pahlen,-T-G; Edenius,-L; T<o>mmervik,-H; Hagner,-O; Hemberg,-L; Olsson,-H;
Stenlund,-T; Baer,-K; Brandt,-L-G; Egberth,-M
AD: Department of Forest Resource Management and Geomatics, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences SLU, SE-901 83 Umea, Sweden.
EM: per.sandstrom@mso.umt.edu per.sandstrom@resgeom.slu.se
tina.granqvist.pahlen@resgeom.slu.se lars.edenius@szooek.slu.se hans.tommervik@nina.no
Olle.Hagner@resgeom.slu.se leif.hemberg@svsac.svo.se hakan.olsson@resgeom.slu.se
Thomas.Stenlund@same.net karin.baer@same.net larsgoran.brandt@ac.lst.se
mikael.egberth@resgeom.slu.se
SO: Ambio-. 2003; 32(8): 557-567
AT: Special issue: Remote sensing for the environment
PB: Stockholm, Sweden: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
RE: 33 notes and ref.
PY: 2003
LA: English
AB: When seeking to resolve complex land management issues, geographical assessment of resources
that are in short supply or in dispute can aid the communication of knowledge and the understanding
among and between different stakeholders. In this paper, we illustrate how remote sensing and
geographical information systems can be used to gather and compile information regarding land use
activities and patterns among reindeer herders and other land users (forestry, mining, tourism, etc) in a
forest Sami village in northern Sweden. The project represents a novel user-oriented effort largely based
on the work carried out by the principal end user, i.e. the reindeer herders themselves. The basis for
development of land use plans for reindeer husbandry, was the following: to collect and digitally
systemize traditional ecological and landscape knowledge of reindeer habitat use; to integrate this
information with results from field inventories and satellite-based vegetation classifications; and to map
activities of other land users. The resulting land use plans provide information that can facilitate
consultation between the reindeer herders and other stakeholders and can facilitate operational work in
reindeer management. This project can serve as a model for participatory involvement and planning,
bringing indigenous knowledge and advanced remote sensing techniques together in an interactive
process.
DE: geographical-information-systems; land-use; land-use-planning; landscape-; remote-sensing;
social-participation; wildlife-management
*LHM: Main Library
TI: Developing indigenous tourism: challenges for the Guianas.
AU: Sinclair,-D
AD: Division of Caribbean and Tourism Studies, University of Guyana, Queenstown, Georgetown,
Guyana.
SO: International-Journal-of-Contemporary-Hospitality-Management. 2003; 15(3): 140-146
AT: Special issue: Tourism and hospitality management in the Caribbean
PB: Bradford, UK: MCB University Press Ltd.
RE: 14 ref.
PY: 2003
LA: English
AB: This paper explores the key challenges in the development of indigenous tourism in Guianas. Clear
policy guidelines that should inform the development of indigenous tourism in the pursuit of
comparative advantage are suggested.
DE: constraints-; destinations-; indigenous-knowledge; market-competition; marketing-; marketingtechniques; terms-of-trade; tourism-; tourism-development; tourism-policy; tourist-industry; traditionalsociety
GE: GuyanaBT: South-America; America-; Developing-Countries; ACP-Countries; Caribbean-Community;
Commonwealth-of-Nations; Latin-America
CC: EE119; EE120; EE700; UU485; UU700
CD: Leisure-Recreation-and-Tourism-Economics; Policy-and-Planning; Marketing-and-Distribution;
Social-Psychology-and-Social-Anthropology; Tourism-and-Travel
PT: Journal-article
IS: 0959-6119
UD: 200403
AN: 20043009774
Record 2 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Aboriginal people, gold, and tourism: the benefits of inclusiveness for goldfields tourism in regional
Victoria.
AU: Clark,-I-D; Cahir,-D-A
AD: School of Business, University of Ballarat, Melbourne, Australia.
EM: i.clark@ballarat.edu.au
SO: Tourism-Culture-and-Communication. 2002; 4(3): 123-136
PB: Elmsford, USA: Cognizant Communication Corporation.
RE: 46 ref.
PY: 2002
LA: English
AB: In the 1960s Australian historians were criticized for being the "high priests" of a 'cult of
forgetfulness', for neglecting Aboriginal history, and for excluding a whole quadrant of the landscape
from their research. In this article, the authors argue that the same criticisms may be levelled at the
interpretation of goldfields history. Taking the Goldfields Tourism Region in western Victoria, Australia,
as their focus, the authors show the 'richness' of the Aboriginal side of the goldfields story, and show
that their exclusion from this story is not due to a lack of material. On the contrary, the barriers that
exclude Aboriginal experiences from goldfields tourism are based on the perception and choice of
tourism agencies and managers. The practice of history of the Sovereign Hill Museums Association in
Ballarat serves as a case study for this article. The authors argue that the heritage industry has a
responsibility to ensure that Aboriginal experiences are not excluded from their interpretation. Several
ways that Sovereign Hill may present indigenous perspectives as it interprets the history of gold mining
in Ballarat and Victoria from 1850 are presented.
DE: aborigines-; case-studies; cultural-heritage; history-; indigenous-knowledge; theme-parks; tourism; tourist-industry; traditional-society
Record 3 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Commoditizing culture - tourism and Maya identity.
AU: Medina,-L-K
AD: Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1118, USA.
EM: medina@msu.edu
SO: Annals-of-Tourism-Research. 2003; 30(2): 353-368
PB: Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press.
RE: 24 ref.
PY: 2003
LA: English
LS: French
AB: This ethnographic study examined how the commoditization of culture for tourism affected
traditional practices in a formerly Maya village adjacent to the most-visited Mayan ruins in Belize.
Though the majority of villagers had abandoned this indigenous identity, they responded to the tourism
demand for representations of an essentialized Mayan culture by utilizing new channels to access
traditions they could no longer learn through old ways: they turned to the publications of archaeologists
and epigraphers who study the ancient Maya. As villagers developed expertise in the cultural traditions
of their ancestors, they remained ambivalent about whether or not their unconventional acquisition of
this knowledge provided sufficient basis for reclaiming Maya identities.
DE: commercialization-; cultural-heritage; cultural-tourism; cultural-values; education-; indigenousknowledge; traditional-society
GE: BelizeID: ethnographyBT: Central-America; America-; Developing-Countries; ACP-Countries; Caribbean-Community;
Commonwealth-of-Nations
CC: EE119; UU485; UU630; UU700; CC100
CD: Leisure-Recreation-and-Tourism-Economics; Social-Psychology-and-Social-Anthropology; ArtsEntertainment-and-Cultural-Heritage; Tourism-and-Travel; Education-and-Training
PT: Journal-article
IS: 0160-7383
UD: 200300
AN: 20033074760
XURL: E-MAIL
Record 4 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Globalization, indigenous peoples, and tourism.
AU: McLaren,-D; Pera,-L
AD: Rethinking Tourism Project, 366 North Prior Ave. Suite 203, Saint Paul, MN 55104, USA.
EM: Deborah@Rethinkingtourism.org
SO: Biodiversity-. 2002; 3(3): 16-17
PB: Ottawa, Canada: Tropical Conservancy.
PY: 2002
LA: English
AB: This paper analyses tourism's effects on indigenous communities and its role in globalization. It
argues that the policies in many arenas within the World Trade Organization, including agriculture,
intellectual property rights, services, and investment, may strengthen the global tourism industry's
control over indigenous communities and erode these communities' ability to make decisions regarding
their environment and futures. The need to safeguard traditional knowledge and decision-making is
highlighted.
DE: globalization-; indigenous-knowledge; social-impact; tourism-; tourism-impact; tourist-industry;
trade-liberalization; traditional-society; World-Trade-Organization
Record 5 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Indigenous peoples and ecotourism: bringing indigenous knowledge and rights into the
sustainability equation.
AU: Johnston,-A
SO: Tourism-Recreation-Research. 2000; 25(2): 89-96
RE: 19 ref.
PY: 2000
LA: English
AB: Issues confronting indigenous peoples as a result of tourism development are identified. The
tourism industry, especially ecotourism, is arguably the prime force today threatening indigenous
homelands and cultures. Its track record of exploitation, dislocation and desecration is well
documented. Meanwhile, there are enough case studies illustrating the potential of community
conceptualized and owned tourism programmes to generate cautious optimism. When indigenous
communities have access to reliable information on the impacts of tourism on indigenous peoples, they
can share strategies for sustainable tourism among themselves and undertake decision-making,
planning and negotiations from this starting point. Tourism can be a powerful addition to the toolbox of
indigenous peoples fighting for their rights.
DE: tourism-development; indigenous-knowledge; sustainability-; traditional-society; ethnic-groups;
social-impact; empowerment-
Record 6 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: An approach to training for indigenous ecotourism development.
AU: Wearing,-S; Harris,-M
AD: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
SO: World-Leisure-and-Recreation. 1999; 41(2): 9-17
RE: 24 ref.
PY: 1999
LA: English
AB: A framework is provided for developing ecotourism education and training in local areas. It focuses
on projects that aim to: provide the opportunity of a learning approach to the benefit of local people,
and the natural and cultural environments; be environmentally and culturally sustainable and offer the
tourist a valuable ecotourism experience. The learning experiences of Australian aborigines are
presented to illustrate how education and training is passed through the community.
DE: tourism-; education-; training-; social-impact; traditional-society; local-population; indigenousknowledge
Record 7 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Hospitality education in Tanzania: is there a need to develop environmental awareness?
AU: Barron,-P; Prideaux,-B
AD: Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Property Management, University of Queensland, Gatton
College, Lawes, Queensland 4345, Australia.
SO: Journal-of-Sustainable-Tourism. 1998; 6(3): 224-237
RE: 20 ref.
PY: 1998
LA: English
AB: A questionnaire distributed to 13 final term students and 25 newly enrolled students studying
tourism and hospitality education at the Lakezone Institute, Tanzania [85% response rate, date not
specified] examined their general views of tourism and tourists; respondents' knowledge of the concept
of environmental management; the perceived level of tourists visiting the country in general and the
Northern Wildlife Area in particular; the role of the National Park Authorities; and the future of tourism
in Tanzania. The results suggest a lack of environmental awareness by members of staff, resulting in the
absence of such issues in the curriculum. As a consequence, graduates complete their qualification with
short term attitudes to tourism and are therefore unaware of the importance of protecting their
country's environment. The article concludes with several suggestions as to how hospitality and tourism
educators in developed nations could become involved with the direction of tourism in Tanzania.
DE: tourism-development; educational-institutions; students-; attitudes-; tourists-; national-parks;
environmental-management; indigenous-knowledge
Record 8 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Ecotourism and rural reconstruction in South Africa: reality or rhetoric?
AU: Koch,-E
ED: Ghimire,-K-B; Pimbert,-M-P
AD: PO Box 32362, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa.
SO: Social-change-and-conservation:-environmental-politics-and-impacts-of-national-parks-andprotected-areas. 1997; 214-238
PB: London, UK: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
RE: 26 ref.
PY: 1997
LA: English
AB: An examination of the political economy of nature tourism in South Africa is presented. A number
of scenarios put forward by proponents of ecotourism are critically evaluated. It is argued that tourism
can be used as a tool to reconstruct some local areas of the rural economy, but only if serious efforts are
made to address obstacles that inhibit genuine community participation in these ventures. Sections
discuss: conservation reform and tourism based development initiatives in South Africa; the
involvement of tribal authorities and civic organizations; the importance of utilizing local knowledge in
the management of parks; and the identification of the divisions inherent within many communities in
South Africa.
DE: nature-tourism; local-population; economic-development; conservation-; community-involvement;
tourism-development; national-parks; ethnic-groups; regional-development; indigenous-knowledge;
rural-development
Record 9 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: The development of an ethnobiomedical forest reserve in Belize: its role in the preservation of
biological and cultural diversity.
AU: Balick,-M-J; Arvigo,-R; Romero,-L
AD: Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458, USA.
SO: Conservation-Biology. 1994; 8(1): 316-317
RE: 4 ref.
PY: 1994
LA: English
AB: In June 1993, 2400 ha of lowland tropical rain forest in the Yalbak region was deeded to the Belize
Association of Traditional Healers, an association formed in 1992 by individuals involved in the provision
of health care with an interest in traditional medicine. The reserve will serve as a source of medicinal
plants and as a teaching resource, and as such plans are underway to open up the reserve to traditional
healers and their students, to regulate harvesting, to catalogue the plant resources and to offer the
reserve for ecological tourism.
DE: tropical-rain-forests; forest-products; medicinal-plants; ethnobotany-; indigenous-knowledge;
teaching-materials; tourism-development; biodiversity-; plant-genetic-resources; vegetation-types; rainforests; nature-reserves; utilization-
Record 10 of 10 - Cab Abstracts
TI: Indigenous (medical) knowledge of the Maasai.
AU: Sindiga,-I
AD: Moi University, Faculty of Forest Resources and Wildlife Management, Department of Tourism,
P.O. Box 1125, Eldoret, Kenya.
SO: Indigenous-Knowledge-and-Development-Monitor. 1994; 2(1): 16-18
RE: 8 ref.
PY: 1994
LA: English
AB: This article reviews the uses of indigenous plants among the pastoral Maasai in Kenya, focusing
particularly on traditional medicine. It is argued that Maasai ethnobotany should be studied
comprehensively and should serve as a guide for rural development in areas with delicate ecologies. The
Maasai have used herbal medicines for centuries and they are deeply rooted in Maasai life. They know
herbs that can be used as remedies for many conditions. Plants are invaluable for all facets of Maasai
life, such as animal fodder, medicine, housing and rituals. Not all of the indigenous knowledge possessed
by the Maasai regarding the use of plants has been collected. Maasai ethnobotanical knowledge of
resilient, drought-resistant grasses is needed for dealing with the pressure of livestock on the range.
Such knowledge can contribute to the identification, extraction and utilization of medicinal herbs.
Another reason for collecting and documenting Maasai ethnobotanical knowledge is that populations of
humans, livestock and wildlife are increasing rapidly. The expansion of human settlements and the
creation of national parks for exclusive wildlife habitation run counter to the frontier ethic of the
traditional pastoral system. Overpopulation is threatening biological diversity on the range as cultivation
expands and the bush takes over more and more areas.
DE: pastoral-society; medicinal-plants; traditional-medicines; indigenous-knowledge; ethnobotany-;
plant-genetic-resources; utilization-; rural-development