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Southern African tourism is dominated by natural resources that sustain safari tourism operated in the region’s national parks and game reserves. While this pattern of development brings a much needed income to governments in the region, it lacks other important characteristics such as social beneficiation and diversification of tourists’ experience. The use of cultural and heritage resources in southern African tourism provide potential to address these loopholes by broadening the scope of engagement and adding diversity to both the tourism product and the tourists’ experience. For this balance to be realised, several new ways of operating tourism have to be explored. They include diversification of natural resources management models to include approaches specifically tailored to conserve and attract cultural heritage resources use. For instance, the community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) programme has to be partnered with a community-based cultural heritage resources (COBACHREM ) model described in Chap. 4 of this book. In addition, juxtaposition of cultural heritage resources in nature reserve tourism interpretations can diversify tourism experiences. Furthermore, compilation of cultural resources in tourism gateway localities of natural value can enhance tourism value of localities that lie in periphery of nature reserves, thus reducing overdependency on protected nature reserves as sole sources of tourism packages. In implementing the strategies, characteristics of tourism and their implications on cultural heritage have to be monitored to achieve sustainable use of cultural resources.
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Keitumetse, S.O. (2016). Heritage Enterprising: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa. In: African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32017-5_7
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