Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Cases and Issues -- Figures -- Tables -- Plates -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction and Contexts -- 1 Introduction: Call for Sustainability -- 2 Tourism Development in Southern Africa: Patterns, Issues and Constraints -- 3 Tourism Policy and Politics in Southern Africa -- 4 Women and Tourism in Southern Africa -- 5 Sustainable Tourism: Perspectives to Sustainability in Tourism -- Part 2: Tourism Development and Local Policies of Sustainability -- 6 Tourism, Conservation Areas and Local Development in Namibia: Spatial Perspectives of Private and Public Sector Reform -- 7 Commercialization of National Parks: South Africa's Kruger National Park as an Example -- 8 Natural Resource-based Tourism and Wildlife Policies in Botswana -- 9 Tourism, Nature Conservation and Environmental Legislation in Namibia -- 10 Transfrontier Conservation and Local Communities -- Part 3: Tourism, Local Communities and Natural Resources in Transition -- 11 Village-based Tourism and Community Participation: A Case Study of the Matsheng Villages in Southwest Botswana -- 12 The Socio-economic Impacts of Tourism in the Okavango Delta, Botswana -- 13 Sustainable Tourism on Commonages: An Alternative to Traditional Agricultural-based Land Reform in Namaqualand, South Africa -- 14 Local Food as a Key Element of Sustainable Tourism Competitiveness -- 15 Conclusions and Critical Issues in Tourism and Sustainability in Southern Africa -- Index.