Reconsidering "Community-based Tourism" among ethnic minorities in Africa

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26300012
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Tsuda University
• Principal Investigator: Maruyama Junko 津田塾大学, 学芸学部, 准教授 (00444472)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 西崎 伸子 福島大学, 行政政策学類, 教授 (40431647) ; 八塚 春名 日本大学, 国際関係学部, 助教 (40596441) ; 中村 香子 京都大学, アフリカ地域研究資料センター, 特任研究員 (60467420) ; 松浦 直毅 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学部, 助教 (60527894) ; 岩井 雪乃 早稲田大学, 平山郁夫記念ボランティアセンター, 准教授 (80507096) ; 目黒 紀夫 広島市立大学, 国際学部, 講師 (90735656)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: アフリカ / 観光 / 住民参加 / 開発 / 自然保護 / 少数民族 / 文化 / 生活の場

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Africa, tourism is one of the fastest growing markets, and, there are high expectations that tourism can contribute not only to economic development, but also to empower marginalized populations, to preserve their cultural heritage and to conserve the environment.　This research project, based on multiple years of ethnographic research, analyzes cases of community-based eco- and cultural-tourism that span East, Central and Southern Africa. In all cases, it is shown that while the tourism can help address some of the local challenges, from the vantage point of African participants, tourism might not be considered a panacea. African participants make pragmatic choices in respect to tourism, opting to move in and out of the sector based on their perceptions of the opportunities tourism gives. There is a marked degree of flexibility and fluidity in Africans’ tourism participation in all the case studies, and this is mostly the result of individuals’ agency.

Free Research Field

地域研究