A History of Tourism in Africa: Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment

by Todd Cleveland

An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other. Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly different perspectives. Many of the countless tourists who have traveled to the African continent fail to acknowledge or even realize that skilled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821424335
• ISBN13: 9780821424339
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"