Course Description & Objectives:
- Trends in rural and wildlife based tourism – concepts and classifications, alternative tourism, history of rural tourism.
- Rural environment and wildlife zones ; accessibility, resource integrity, image conflicts, resource allocation, physical access and travel patterns,
- Rural and wildlife based tourism and authenticity – tourist – host interactions, temporal and spatial constraints, lack of spontaneity, and unequal and unbalanced tourist experience.
- Social impacts – index of tourist irritation, euphoria to xenophobia the physical presence of tourists, and the demonstration effect,
- Cultural impacts – effects on culture, inter-cultural communication, culture as a commodity, material forms of culture, renaissance of traditional art, and non-material forms of culture.
- Impact rural and wildlife based tourism on natural resources sustainability.
- International and country policies in wildlife conservation.
