Tourism Case Studies Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Regions

Naomi Moswete (Edited By) Naomi Moswete (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8055-8175) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana. She has a PhD in Health and Human Performance with a concentration on Natural Resource Recreation and minor in Cultural-heritage Resource Management from the University of Florida, USA and an MA in Tourism Studies from Monash University, Victoria, Australia Research interests include human geography, tourism as a strategy for rural development, community-based tourism, transboundary conservation areas, sustainable ecotourism, wildlife, parks & people relationships, heritage resource management and cultural tourism. She is an editor of CABI Tourism Cases and a sectional editor in Frontiers in Conservation Science Journal. Her experience in teaching tourism led her to publish, mostly with a focus on heritage tourism, cultural tourism, wildlife tourism, rural and urban tourism and local communities, empowerment, and protected area-based tourism and climate.Paolo Mura (Edited By) Paolo Mura (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6260-4991) is a professor at the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He holds a PhD in Tourism from the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research areas explore tourist experiences and behaviour, including gendered experiences and representations in tourism, travelling subcultures, expressions of art in tourism, and critical and qualitative approaches to research. Paolo's scholarly work has been published in several journals, including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, and Journal of Travel Research. He serves as Managing Editor of Tourism Management Perspectives and is on the editorial board of various international journals. He is the co-editor of a book series entitled Perspectives on Asian Tourism, published by Springer, and edited four books and various special issues for international journals. Paolo enjoys supervising postgraduate students and has supervised, to completion, 10 PhD students and over 20 master's students.

• 1: Tourism Development in the MENA and SSA Context: A Query on Sustainable Practice: An Overview Section 1: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa 2: Opportunities and challenges of community based eco-cultural tourism development: a case study of Gwirize cultural village in Malawi 3: Benefit sharing from Maasai Manyatta Visits 4: Dryland villages in the Kalahari region: Opportune for Community-Based Geotourism 5: Land-use conflicts and an alternative wildlife management option for the Loliondo Game-controlled Area, Tanzania: Insights from a community 6: The Ninki Nanka Trail, The Gambia 7: Botswana’s New Tourism Policy of 2021 and Mantras of citizen empowerment and product diversification: A Case of Going Backward to Move Forward 8: Thamaga Pottery: A community-based Women’s Enterprise in Rural Botswana Section 2: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa 9: Mouna Ben Halima – La Badira Hotel 10: Slave Trade Heritage in Ghana 11: Tourism Development in Algeria and the Horizon 2025 Plan 12: Maggie Breaks into Tanzania’s Male-Dominated World of Wildlife Tourism 13: Tourism Development and Environmental Commitment in Hurghada and El Gouna on Egypt’s Red Sea coast 14: The Role of Visitor Centers in Heritage Management: The Example of the Archaeological Site of Umm Qais, Jordan 15: A Small Jordanian Adventure Tourism Tour Operator with Big Ambitions 16: Running as a Tool for Social Inclusion and Community Change in Cairo, Egypt 17: Bringing Order to Petra’s Tourism Economy Conclusion: Tourism Development Across the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa: Final Reflections