Tourism as a Poverty Reduction Tool: The Case of Mukuni Village in the Southern Province of Zambia

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201462061287" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201462061287</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201462061287" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun201462061287</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tourism as a Poverty Reduction Tool: The Case of Mukuni Village in the Southern Province of Zambia

Original language description

Globally, tourism is becoming one of the cornerstones of national economic growth and as a means of poverty alleviation, especially in the tourist attractions in rural areas. This article assesses the levels of utilization of tourism potentials in Zambia, in general, and the Mukuni village in the Southern province in Zambia, in particular, with reference to poverty reduction. The world famous Victoria Falls is situated in the Southern province and therefore this area is the most visited places in Zambiaand attracts more tourists throughout the whole year. The main income of the local people, which includes the Tonga tribe comes from tourism. Even though tourism has brought positive results, including the realization of some local development projectsand prosperity to the people, it has also brought some negative eff ects such as sociocultural change, pollution and waste in the tourist destination areas in Zambia. For the Mukuni people and Zambia as a whole to fully exploit tourism po

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

ISSN

1211-8516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

62

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1287-1292

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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