The role of tourism in the conservation of cultural heritage in Kenya

Irandu, Evaristus M.

doi:10.1080/1094166042000233658

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“…The Safari tourism is the most common excursion of national parks; it includes to a large public that is interested in viewing large mammals and colorful birds in a wild with exotic landscape and a range of nature tourism products. Many of these wildlife visitors will also be interested for integrated cultural and natural heritages [3] [5]. The ecotourism includes journeys for bird viewing, sport fishermen, speleologists (those who enjoy exploring caves and their wildlife), botanists and other ecologists, who interested on wildlife perspectives.…”

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confidence: 99%

Wildlife Resources of Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions: From Ecotourism Perspective: A Review Paper

Amare¹

2015

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The economy of Ethiopia has prospered for many years on agricultural products but currently, the country expands to industrialization and service providing for additional incomes. However, the wildlife tourism and conservation practices are still at low attention. Therefore, this review paper identifies potential opportunities and wildlife diversity to promote wildlife tourism practices in Ethiopia. Furthermore, it also identifies the challenges and future directions to put into practice for future wildlife tourism industry. Wildlife tourism is one of the best potential economies to the country due to the presence of magnificent diversity of wildlife with high endemism and expansion of protected areas. The main intentions of tourists are to visit large mammals and birds with their natural habitats. The country earns million dollars per year only from protected areas through nature based tourism. The Montane and Afroalpine, Rift Valley and Transboundary ecosystem, a world class icon for wildlife tourism which attracts various tourists, and potential tourism destination for Ethiopia due to its high mammalian diversity and scenic area. The expansion of protected areas, peaceful and friendly people, and endemism promote tourism industry in Ethiopia. Even though, Ethiopia is the third country next to Tanzania and Uganda in terms of land surface of protected area; human-wildlife conflict, loss of biodiversity, and limited tourism and conservation attention with poor infrastructure are some of the major challenges. To scale up wildlife tourism industry, better promotion with practical conservation practices, community based tourism approaches and infrastructures should be implemented throughout the whole area of tourist destination.

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Wildlife Resources of Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions: From Ecotourism Perspective: A Review Paper

Amare¹

2015

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“…During the 1970s, political and socio-economic stability allowed the relatively young multi-ethnic state of Kenya to become a leading tourist destination in Africa (Irandu 2004). Nowadays, Kenya is one of the most important tourism centres in Africa, with over 1.6 million international tourist arrivals in 2006 (Kenya Government 2007).…”

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“…On the one hand they are urged to brand themselves in order to be included in a tourist package that frequently invokes a colonial journey; on the other hand they are required to discard colonial histories and reflect new national pasts and their policies, exhibitions and collections. Downloaded by [134.117.10.200] at 16:19 16 March 2015 Fort Jesus, a sixteenth century Portuguese-built fort in Mombasa, is one of the principal tourist attractions in East Africa (Sindiga 1996;Irandu 2004;Farah 2006), and encapsulates and resonates many of the memory-making struggles of contemporary Kenya. It is a good starting point to discuss the spatial and cultural dichotomy of coastal and safari tourism, as the site contains many conflicting aspects of heritage and interpretation connected to political, ethnic and religious tension in the country.…”

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Fort Jesus: Guiding the Past and Contesting the Present in Kenya

Sarmento

2010

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This paper focuses on the interpretation of Fort Jesus, Kenya, a late sixteenth century Portuguese-built fort, and attempts to discuss its significance in the region and in the country, and its role within the context of recent tourism development in Kenya. By exploring the ways in which a sample of local tourist guides engage with tourists and with the heritage and memory that Fort Jesus represents in this coastal region, some of the challenges facing tourism development in post-colonial Kenya are analysed. While the study reveals that the guides are not a homogeneous group, one of the shared positions is their resentfulness towards the inability of the coastal region to control and benefit from tourism. At the same time, despite some of the guides revealing to be skilful cultural mediators, the vast majority construct their mediation upon a predominantly colonial knowledge of the Fort. Résumé: Fort Jésus: interprétation du passé et contestation du présent au KenyaCet article se concentre sur l'interprétation de Fort Jésus, au Kenya, un fort construit par les portugais au seizième siècle, pour discuter de sa signification dans la région et dans le pays, ainsi que de son rôle dans le contexte du développement récent du tourisme au Kenya. En explorant la façon dont unéchantillon de guides touristiques locaux se conduit vis-à-vis des touristes et par rapport au patrimoine et la mémoire que Fort Jésus représente pour cette zone côtière, j'analyse les problèmes auxquels le développement du tourisme dans un Kenya post colonial doit faire face. Bien que l'étude révèle que les guides ne sont pas un groupe homogène, l'incapacité de la région côtière de contrôler et de bénéficier du tourisme les contrarie tous. En même temps, bien que les guides se soient révélés des interprètes culturels habiles, la majorité construit ses interprétations d'après une connaissance du fort essentiellement coloniale. Diese Studie konzentriert sich auf die Interpretation von Fort Jesus in Kenia, einem portugiesischen Fort aus dem späten sechzehnten Jahrhundert, und strebt an, seine Bedeutung für die Region und das Land sowie seine Rolle im Zusammenhang mit den jüngsten Tourismusentwicklungen in Kenia zu diskutieren. Indem die Art und Weise untersucht wird, mit der eine Auswahl von lokalen Reiseführern sich mit Touristen sowie mit dem Kulturerbe und den Erinnerungen, welches Fort Jesus für diese Küstenregion darstellt, auseinandersetzt, analysiere ich einige der Herausforderungen, die der Tourismusentwicklung im postkolonialen Kenia gegenüberstehen. Während die Untersuchung zeigt, dass Reiseführer keine einheitliche Gruppe darstellen, so ist doch eine der gemeinsamen Positionen ihr Aufgebrachtseinüber die Unfähigkeit der Küstenregion den Tourismus zu kontrollieren und von ihm zu profitieren. Zur gleichen Zeit, und obwohl einige der Reiseführer sich als gekonnte Kulturvermittler hervortun, basiert die Wissensvermittlung für dieüberwiegende Mehrheit hauptsächlich auf kolonialem Wissenüber das Fort.

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“…Nunkoo and Ramkissoon (2010) 8 consider overall attitude to be a function of the economic, social, cultural, and environmental impacts of tourism. Thus briefly speaking those locations with more positive resident attitudes towards tourism tend to have industries more sustainable in terms of their balance of impacts and longevity (Irandu, 2004;Lepp, 2007). Hence capturing resident attitudes towards tourism, in order to draw inferences regards, was used here as has been the case throughout tourism development stage research (Getz, 1994, Haley et al, 2005, Madrigal, 1993.…”

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confidence: 99%