Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Development Through Tourism? -- 2 Tourism Development Strategies in Namibia: Private and Community Perceptions on the National Policy -- 3 Local Economic Development and Tourism Planning in Africa: Evidence from Route Tourism in South Africa -- 4 Community Development Strategies in the Kalahari: an Expression of Modernization's Monologue? -- 5 Selling Places and Constructing Local Cultures in Tourism: the Role of the Ovahimba in Namibian Tourism Promotion -- 6 The Applicability of Government Policy to Community-based Catering Services: the Hananwa of Blouberg, Limpopo Province -- 7 Tourism Development, Rural Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana -- 8 Coastal Bird Tourism in Namibia: Postcolonial Resources and Restraints -- 9 The Responses of the Southern African Tourism Sector in Combating HIV/AIDS -- 10 Interplay Between Local Service Suppliers and Incoming Tour Operators: the Case of Madagascar -- 11 Tourism Development and the Polemic of ICT Advocacy in Namibian Schools -- 12 Transfrontier Tourism and Relations Between Local Communities and the Private Sector in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park -- 13 Tourism Development Strategies: Lessons from the Southern African Experiences -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X.