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...protected areas from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. Known as the Open Africa Initiative and endorsed by former South African President Nelson Mandela, the project hopes to bring local communities directly into the global tourist market, but it's still largely a dream. The goal is for tourism income from the parks to be plowed back into community development. "What we're saying is that it's about time that Africa turned conservation into an industry for Africans," says De Villiers. "This is something with which Africa can rejuvenate itself...
Guided and trained by GTZ, Germany's technical-aid agency, and INRENA, Peru's natural-resources institute, the Matsiguenkas hope to profit from tourism without destroying their own fragile way of life. Contact between tourists and themselves is kept to a minimum; photography is curbed; and tour-group access is limited to certain locations and times of year. The operation is run by a small group of Matsiguenkas, some technical advisers from GTZ and a hired administrator who collects payments. Profits go entirely to the Matsiguenkas to be used as they choose. So far, that has been mostly for medicines...
Since the dramatic changes of the 1990s that brought South Africa out of political and economic isolation, the country has succeeded in putting itself on the international travel-and-tourism map. After Nelson Mandela's election in 1994, the number of regional and overseas holiday visitors increased 50%, to more than 5 million a year. Tourism and related industries, which contributed an estimated $11 billion to the country's gross domestic product last year, expect to quadruple that figure in the next decade...
While the dynamics of postapartheid South Africa are part of the country's draw, both government and the private sector are aiming to put the travel industry in the big leagues. The government, which has underfunded tourism promotion and infrastructure in the past two years, has identified the sector as key to helping boost employment, support rural communities and conserve the environment. A government-business partnership, set up in late 1998, is injecting some $25 million into marketing, with the aim of 20% annual growth in international tourism. The government's streamlined tourist board--SA Tourism, or SATOUR--will focus...
...government drew up a marketing strategy linking tourist developments with community-based tourism products and services. It is also offering tourism training and assistance, including loans and tax concessions, to small businesses. As a result, bed-and-breakfasts have become big business as well as a bargain for holiday makers. Stellenbosch, a historic settler community in a picturesque winelands region 30 miles from Cape Town, has 105 registered bed-and-breakfasts. SATOUR has issued a 254-page accommodation guide that lists 1,877 establishments. Some are luxury guest houses, but many are in the easily affordable $20-to-$30 daily...