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Title: | NGOs in ecotourism : patrons of sustainability or neo-colonial agents? Evidence from Africa | Authors: | Wondirad, A Tolkach, D King, B |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | Tourism recreation research, 2020, v. 45, no. 2, p. 144-160 | Abstract: | NGOs have become involved in ecotourism because of its potential to balance economic development, environmental conservation, and socio-cultural revitalisation. However, some critics have associated ecotourism with neo-colonialism and with the perpetuation of economic and political hegemonies because the concept has been advanced from the West. The present study adopts a qualitative research approach to explore the merits of two opposing views–that NGOs facilitate and advance sustainable development or that they are agents of neo-colonialism. The researchers focus on a nation which was spared the experience of colonisation–Ethiopia–to explore whether ecotourism practice can be accurately characterised as ‘neo-colonial’. Through a close examination of NGO involvement in ecotourism, the authors challenge the widely held view that NGOs use sustainable development as a pretext to promote neo-colonial ideas. The paper contributes to theory and practice by explaining the relationship between neo-colonialism and ecotourism. Implications and opportunities for future research are also discussed. | Keywords: | Dependency Ecotourism Neo-colonialism NGOs Southern Ethiopia |
Publisher: | Routledge | Journal: | Tourism recreation research | ISSN: | 0250-8281 | EISSN: | 2320-0308 | DOI: | 10.1080/02508281.2019.1675269 | Rights: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Tourism Recreation Research on 20 Oct. 2019 (published online), available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02508281.2019.1675269 |
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