dc.contributor.author
Lerp, Dörte
dc.date.accessioned
2025-02-13T14:00:24Z
dc.date.available
2025-02-13T14:00:24Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/46586
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-46300
dc.description.abstract
Tourism in Africa was entangled with colonialism from the start. However, after the Second World War it became an integral part of the colonising powers’ development agenda, albeit one that has received little scholarly attention so far. This presented African states with a serious dilemma when most of them gained independence during the 1960s. On the one hand, tourism promised to stimulate economic growth, provide much needed foreign currency, and create employment opportunities. On the other hand, international tourism had the potential to threaten the economic independence of post-colonial states and perpetuate colonial stereotypes, as well as international and local power imbalances and inequalities. The newly elected governments had to deal with this “colonial baggage.” This article focusses on the transition from colonial to post-colonial tourism in two East African countries, Kenya and Tanzania. I explore how the late colonial government pursued tourism as a development strategy for the region. I also demonstrate how Kenya and Tanzania approached tourism and its colonial legacies in different ways after independence. To trace their respective tourism histories, I draw on published reports and newspaper articles, historical research literature, in particular, from tourism scholars of various disciplines, as well as archival sources.
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dc.format.extent
16 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject
Tourism history
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dc.subject
development history
en
dc.subject.ddc
900 Geschichte und Geografie::960 Geschichte Afrikas::960 Geschichte Afrikas
dc.title
“An Easily and Cheaply Exploitable Asset”: Tourism as a Development Strategy in East Africa
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dc.identifier.sepid
103308
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1017/S0165115324000330
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Itinerario
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
16
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
2024
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115324000330
refubium.affiliation
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
refubium.funding
Cambridge
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin finanziert
de
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2041-2827