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Peer-to-peer capacity-building in tourism: values and experiences of field-based education

  • Peter Burns
    ,
  • Marina Novelli
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Abstract

Taking tourism as a metaphor for the complex and unequal relationship between the Majority World and the more affluent tourist-generating countries, this paper reports research into ways in which educational tourism can facilitate mutually beneficial exchanges between ‘hosts and guests’. The empirical work is based on data collected as part of an innovative field-based education project on international tourism development and management with field-based activities conducted in The Gambia. The paper aimed to show that if the exchange, both culturally and pragmatically, was to benefit not only the visiting students but also the host country, then values, cross-cultural interaction, innovation and knowledge exchange would have to play key roles to ensure that this peer-to-peer capacity-building opportunity though educational tourism would contribute to sustainable (tourism) development in the chosen locality.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 741

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Development Southern Africa (Volume 27, Issue 5)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/12/2010

Publication status

Published - 01/12/2010

ISSN

0376-835X

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/594759
  • Scopus: 78149363485

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