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The enormous potential for tourism development in Africa has long been recognized (Dieke, 1993) but the evidence remains that this is a potential substantially under-fulfilled. A tourism heat map of Africa is a patchwork of a few high-performing destinations in the north, east, south and offshore; some emergent locations in the east, west and south and large swathes of the continent where tourist visitation beyond localized, cross-border movement is hardly discernible.
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Baum, T., Ndiuini, A. (2020). Sustainable Human Resource Management in Tourism: Introducing African Perspectives. In: Baum, T., Ndiuini, A. (eds) Sustainable Human Resource Management in Tourism. Geographies of Tourism and Global Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41735-2_1
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