False promise or false premise? Using tourism revenue sharing to promote conservation and poverty reduction in Uganda

False promise or false premise? Using tourism revenue sharing to promote conservation and poverty reduction in Uganda

Tourism and the sharing of the associated revenues with local people have been increasingly fronted as key instruments for maintaining protected areas (PAs) globally. This paper focuses on a tourism revenue sharing scheme employed in Uganda′s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, involving rural farmer...

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Main Authors: David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Paul Vedeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
tourism revenue sharing
benefit sharing
gorilla trekking
ecotourism
park outreach
protected areas
poverty and conservation
Bwindi
Uganda
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2012;volume=10;issue=1;spage=15;epage=28;aulast=Tumusiime

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