Globalization, Indigenization, and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa tourism reflects one of the many contradictions of the subcontinent—the fact that its rich natural and sociocultural ecologies do not translate into meaningful socioeconomic development. Sub-Saharan African countries capture a disproportionately miniscule portion of the global tourism business, despite their substantial potentialities for tourism resources. To date, analysts have put little emphasis on the links between neoliberal political economy of globalization and indigenization, mediated by the legacy of colonization, in their explications of this contradiction. Instead, the focus has been eithe? on factors internal o? external to sub-Saharan Africa, without implicating the connections between these apparent disparate factors. Empirically, the globalization-indigenization dialectic and its colonial legacy interface are missing from the search for answers for sub-Saharan African tourism development. Likewise, the existing paradigms of tourism development, articulated by Jafari (1989) as the advocacy platform, the cautionary platform, the adaptancy platfor?, and the knowledge-based platfor?, are virtually silent on these dynamics.KeywordsTourism DevelopmentIndigenous CultureTourism ResourceTourist ArrivalGlobal TourismThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Development economics · Dialectic · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Globalization · Indigenization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Underdevelopment · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Franchising Strategies and Performance

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