Innovative community ecotourism coping and recovery strategies to COVID-19 pandemic shocks: The case of Mahenye

Mudzengi, Boycen Kumira; Gandiwa, Edson; Muboko, Never; Mutanga, Chiedza Ngonidzashe

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2021.1980375

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“…The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority estimated a US$3.8 million (50%) deficit from April to June 2020 due to a decline in revenue generated by tourism (Lindsey et al, 2020). The community ecotourism sector under the CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe is one of the most affected industries by the COVID-19 pandemic (Mudzengi et al, 2022). Similarly, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), which earns 88% of its income from tourist entrance fees, projected a loss of US$1.4 million for conservation activities in the third quarter of 2020 (Lindsey et al, 2020).…”

Section: Ecotourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19, deforestation, and green economy

Singhal,

Jinger,

Rathore

et al. 2024

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Corona has severely impacted many sectors in the past 2. 5 years, and forests are one of the major hits among all sectors affected by the pandemic. This study presents the consolidated data on deforestation patterns across the globe during COVID and also analyzes in depth the region-specific contributing factors. Exacerbated deforestation during COVID alarms biodiversity conservation concerns and pushes back the long-term efforts to combat pollution and climate change mitigation. Deforestation also increases the risk of the emergence of new zoonotic diseases in future, as deforestation and COVID are intricately related to each other. Therefore, there is a need to check deforestation and inculcation of conservation measures in building back better policies adopted post-COVID. This review is novel in specifically providing insight into the implications of COVID-19 on forests in tropical as well as temperate global regions, causal factors, green policies given by different nations, and recommendations that will help in designing nature-based recovery strategies for combating deforestation and augmenting afforestation, thus providing better livelihood, biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and better environmental quality.

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Section: Ecotourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19, deforestation, and green economy

Singhal,

Jinger,

Rathore

et al. 2024

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…However, as discussed in the introduction, naturebased and wildlife tourism are generally dependent on international tourism and sensitive to global trends. As we have seen, the sensitivity is particularly high where community payment is funded through revenue (Hockings et al, 2020;Lindsey et al, 2020;Mudzengi et al, 2022). Therefore, it is of interest to assess the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its mitigations as done here.…”

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“…Nature based tourism represents a third of all tourism in Africa (Spenceley et al, 2021). Thus, conservation areas in Africa are particularly interesting cases to study as they are highly dependent on international tourism and much of the surrounding economy is also based on tourism making them highly vulnerable to trends in international tourism (see Lindsey et al, 2020; Hockings et al, 2020; Mudzengi et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The responses and local strategies to counter the decline in international tourism with the Covid-19 pandemic reveal important lessons for rethinking tourism on several scales (Gössling and Higham, 2020; Gössling et al, 2020; Niewiadomski, 2020; Prayag, 2020). Nature-based tourism and linked hospitality services on the African continent are especially sensitive to global economic and political fluctuations they are typically highly dependent on international and advance bookings (Hockings et al, 2020; Lindsey et al, 2020; Mudzengi et al, 2022). This is especially the case in conservancies such as the Kenya Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA), an association of independent conservancies which are part of the Greater Mara Conservancy (Figure 1).…”

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Covid-19 pandemic effects and responses in the Maasai Mara conservancy

Chakrabarti¹,

Ekblom

2023

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Local comparisons of effects, responses and mitigations to the Covid-19 pandemic are of vital importance in building a sustainable tourism. This is particularly the case for conservancies in Africa which is largely dependent on international tourism. Qualitative interviews were carried out in the Kenya Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA)with landowners, lodge managers and staff, tourism operators, community organisations and NGOs between January and May 2021. The MMWCA is an important case study as conservancies pay lease payments to more than 14,528 landowners through tourism revenues. The results show how partner conservancies took different paths in securing payments of leases and salaries by rotating staff, attracting international funding and by targeting domestic tourism. Meanwhile, landowners experimented with alternative economic activities such as cattle herding and diary production. The study shows the strength of MMWCA as a stakeholder partnership to proactively design measures including renegotiation of lease-payments, in soliciting external funding and in re-distributing funding. The positive role of domestic tourism is also stressed. The pandemic brought to the forefront discussions on equity and benefit sharing and on the sustainability of the model itself. Recommendations are given to strengthen possibilities for alternative incomes sources and for a diversification of strategies of the MMWCA partners, including the need to stimulate domestic tourism as a parallel source of income. These recommendations are also relevant to conservation areas across the African continent.

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“…In this research, Wu et al ( 33 ) showed that despite the reluctance of Taiwanese people, the outbreak of the coronavirus has increased their interest in ecotourism. Mudzengi et al ( 34 ) reported negative overall impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on ecotourism. These effects include a decline in ecotourism visits, an increase in poaching, a global economic slowdown, and increased lobbying for more international hunting and wildlife trade.…”

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The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on ecotourism, a study from West of Iran

Rahimian

Rad

Zareei

2022

Front. Public Health

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Most tourism researchers agree on the effects of the COVID-19 on ecotourism. The present study aims to assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ecotourism status in Lorestan province in Iran. To this aim, 29 effects were identified using Delphi technique. According to results, the effects were divided into six categories including the decreased number of incoming tourists, the reduced activity of hotels and resorts, the declined income of goods and service suppliers for tourists, the decreased activity of travel agencies and tourist tours, as well as positive and negative environmental effects. Generally, the results provide new knowledge in the field of ecotourism crisis management. In addition, the identified effects provide the basis for further research on the method of reducing the negative effects.

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Innovative community ecotourism coping and recovery strategies to COVID-19 pandemic shocks: The case of Mahenye

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

COVID-19, deforestation, and green economy

COVID-19, deforestation, and green economy

Covid-19 pandemic effects and responses in the Maasai Mara conservancy

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on ecotourism, a study from West of Iran

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