The Business of Poverty in Africa

Inside the Travel Philanthropy System
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-80650-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

This timely and thought-provoking book critically explores key theories, concepts and contemporary issues associated with the travel philanthropy phenomenon within the debates of sustainable development in Africa.

By drawing on the authors’ extensive experience in the field and by using empirical evidence from case studies in Uganda, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, a systems approach is employed to explain the complexity of travel philanthropy as a growing exchange economy within tourism in Africa and the importance of considering the influence of multi-stakeholder perspectives. Through an interdisciplinary lens and framed by a critical realism philosophy, this book provides a thorough investigation and new understanding of travel philanthropy as a system, challenging myopic views of gift-giving and receiving practices in Africa. Here, key system outputs revealing emerging moral dilemmas within gift-giving, lead to a call for adequate policy and practice interventions for the advancement of sustainable development. Incorporating observable and unobservable phenomena as matters of causality, a new conceptual model is presented, which redefines how impact of travel philanthropy may be conceptualised and approached. By doing so the analysis offers significant insight into the real-world complexity of gift-giving and aid interventions through tourism, and how it differentiates from other forms of aid. The research presented in this book provides a solid basis to inform strategies for more effective and ethical pathways to gift-giving/receiving engagements, responsible tourism business management practices in Africa and contributes to wider debates concerning international aid and donors’ intervention implications in African contexts.

This book is a valuable resource for the tourism industry, policy makers, development professionals, students, researchers, academics in tourism, geography, business and management, economics, international development studies, anthropology, sociology, area studies and applied ethics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scarth, Amy

Novelli, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

'1. Introduction. 2. The Complex Landscape of 'Development' Aid, Private Philanthropy and the 'Gift' in Africa. 3. Impact Evaluation and Judging the 'Good' in Sustainable Development Systems. 4. Gift-giving and Philanthropy through Tourism: Emerging Theories and Practices. 5. Redefining Travel Philanthropy: Opening the Black Box. 6. Actors, Roles and Perspectives: Shaping the System. 7. Broadening the Theoretical Perspective: Travel Philanthropy as a Social, Economic and Moral Phenomenon. 8. Travel Philanthropy: An Emergent Exchange Economy. 9. The Travel Philanthropy System and the Business of Poverty. 10. The Travel Philanthropy System: Resource Pathways. 11. Redefining Impact: The Bigger Picture, System Outputs and the Paradox of Travel Philanthropy. 12. Whose Business is Poverty?. References.

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Scarth (PhD, MA, BA Hons) is an applied social scientist and independent consultant specialising in socio-economic development impact and the sustainability of biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa. Her expertise lies understanding real-world complex systems that private, non-profit and public sectors are embedded, the intersection of humans, nature and politics in Africa's protected areas, as well as global and local tourism strategies. Combining an advanced academic foundation with extensive practitioner experience, including a background in multi-stakeholder engagement amongst last-mile populations in fragile contexts of the world. in community engagement, especially with marginalised populations in fragile contexts. Leadership roles across private industry, NGO, social enterprise, academia, and consultancy, have enabled thought leadership in diverse fields.

Marina Novelli (PhD, PGDip Panning, PgDipEd, BSc Hons Economics) is Director of the University of Nottingham's Sustainable Travel and Tourism Advanced Research Centre and Professor of Marketing and Tourism at The University of Nottingham Business School, UK. She is a globally renowned authority in the field of tourism for sustainable development, with an extensive track record of leading impactful research, consultancy and advisory services for international organisations such as the World Bank, the EU, various UN institutions, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the British Council and National Ministries. She is an Africa specialist, having travelled and worked in 27 countries and over 50 destinations on the continent. She has publishing extensively on issues related to the continent and amongst her many recognitions, she is the recipient of the 2022 Africa Impact Champion, the 2018 Africa Tourism Leadership Award and the 2018 Top 50 Awesome Scholars in Tourism.