Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa

Makerere University · School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences

This chapter shows that generated data were triangulated, and summarises the respective thematic areas, which informed development and structuring. More than 50% of the tourism revenues accrue from the sale of gorilla viewing permits at bwindi Impenetrable national park. The sport hunting model was reintroduced by uganda wildlife authority (UWA) on...

Most studies of the tourism–development nexus in developing countries tend to focus on short-term and monetary tourism effects, while understating non-monetary and longer-term effects of tourism on local and regional development. Although less tangible and weakly understood, non-monetary and/or long-term tourism effects can both reinforce and under...

Uganda reintroduced sport hunting in 2001. The policy was piloted around Lake Mburo National Park and later replicated around other protected areas. This chapter analyses the development, implementation and impact of sport hunting policy in Uganda. We do so through literature review, document analysis, and by analyzing the different actors' perspec...

This paper analyses the promotion of culture-based tourism as a tool for cultural conservation and community livelihoods improvement in Buganda region, Uganda. A pragmatic approach was adopted to explore the existing cultural heritage resources in Buganda and their conservation for tourism as a means for community development. Data were collected u...

everal studies found larger benefits for communities when local stakeholders could participate in the tourism value chain by ‘linking’ their labour, products and services to the sector. However, the establishment of local linkages is difficult because of the complexity of the tourism system that consists of multi-sectoral and multi-scalar relations...

In the ongoing debate on the connection between tourism and poverty alleviation, tourism is often presented as a tool for poverty alleviation and the improvement of socio-economic conditions of rural communities in developing countries. Findings of prior research suggest that nature-based tourism has a positive impact; however, existing models tend...

This study focuses on the concept of business enterprise success and the role of personality traits towards success of women entrepreneurs in business. We show that women entrepreneurs have capacity to start and sustain business enterprises as more than 80% of them were able keep their enterprises up and running for more than 10 years. We also find...

This article performs actor-network theory (ANT) to examine the development of gorilla tourism at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. We depict a number of translations in which gorillas were designated and enrolled as coexisting with local livelihood practices, as “trophies” in the hunting network, “man's closest neighbor” in the scientific...

Nature-based tourism is well recognised as a tool that can be used for neoliberal conservation. Proponents argue that such tourism can provide revenue for conservation activities, and income generating opportunities and other benefits for local people living at the destination. Private-Community Partnerships (PCPs) are a particular form of hybrid i...

Community conservation has been embraced by many developing countries as a link between communities and wildlife conservation on the premise that, if conservation and development could be simultaneously achieved, then the interests of both the community and conservationists could be served. It is widely seen as a way through which communities can t...

Debates on how to deliver conservation benefits to communities living close to protected high-biodiversity areas have preoccupied conservationists for over 20 years. Tourism revenue sharing (TRS) has become a widespread policy intervention in Africa and elsewhere where charismatic populations of wildlife remain. This paper analyzes TRS policy at Bw...

Chapter provides an analysis of community benefits sharing arrangement from national park revenue generated in Lake Mburo national Park. Applying the Policy arrangement Approach (PAA) the paper explores the actors, resources, institutions and discourses and how they influence community involvement and benefit. Results reveal that although various a...