The economic-administrative role of geographic information systems in rural tourism and exhaustive local community development in African marginalized communities

Abstract

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to examine the latent part of geographic information systems in inclusive sustainable rural tourism, community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and community development and empowerment in Southern Africa, Africa generally and many rural areas elsewhere worldwide.Design/methodology/approachThe viewpoint utilizes literature and document reviews to assess African and worldwide agricultural, environmental and tourism resources management scenarios. It thus liaises with CBNRM and geographic information systems in sustainable tourism and local community development applications.FindingsThis review viewpoint uncovers a better potential synergetic relationship between tourism and rural (agricultural) activities that geographic information systems along a concept of CBNRM can amplify. Hence, it has poised a need for a decent and integrated tourism strategy to develop and empower the pertinent communities in many rural and marginalized areas within the continent.Originality/valueMany rural communities in Southern Africa and Africa broadly dwell in low-income areas. Such milieus are rich in natural biodiversity, including tourism destination areas. Geographic information systems, sustainable tourism and CBNRM can form a gestalt of local community development projects within their environs.

Alternative ecotourism perspectives within the protected conservation sites and farming communities amid environmental degradation and climate change-bound rural exercises

“…Similar to this reflection, Ankomah and Larson's (2000) appraisal that responsible tourism is critical for sustaining and developing tourism in sub-Saharan Africa. The cited studies could support the present and potential tourism purposes within the respective tourism policies, IRDAs, and ecotourism-based public leadership (Bramwell and Sharman, 1999; Ramaano, 2022c, d; Poon, 2023). Hence, there is also space for the utilization and adequate endowment of agritourism and livelihood activities.…”

“…Similarly, experimenting with new methods, working with sustainable tourism strategic alliances, and prioritizing various GIS like PGIS and RS in locating and monitoring the tourism sector could all be crucial sustainability decisions. From now on, similar timetables will apply to other fields, like web-integrated tourism technology, a variety of community-empowering information systems, business, and management (Ramaano, 2022a, b, c, d, e; Guo and Shi, 2022; Putra et al ., 2022). To this effect, Zou et al (2022) hinted at the essence of forest assignment security on the forestry management efficiency of farmers for diverse forest management undertakings.…”

“…Implicitly, the sixth capital outside the major five is intellectual capital, which is vital to indigenous knowledge and natural resource management for the locals. Thus, the cited capital framework can be valuable in natural resource management (NRM) (Omara-Ojungu, 1992), biodiversity, ecotourism, and agro-tourism integrated rural development initiatives within the impoverished communities in the study area, and combating climate change to improve livelihoods and environmental sustainability (Ramaano, 2022c, e). The next part presents the study area and methods.…”

Implementation Sustainable Ecotourism Cikolelet Tourism Village

“…The findings suggest that regardless of the level of government investment in ecotourism, uptake may remain low. The potential for a better synergistic relationship between tourism and rural activities (agriculture) is needed for a viable and integrated tourism strategy to develop and empower the concerned and the people in many villages (Ramaano, 2022b). Study (Hubner et al, 2022;Juliana et al, 2022;Lemy et al, 2019;Lemy et al, 2022) stated that collaboration from stakeholders necessitates government support, and awareness of village communities in management necessitates support for rural communities in development and promotion efforts.…”

The role of farmers’ green values in creation of green innovative intention and green technology adoption behavior: Evidence from farmers grain green production

“…This is based on computer operated process of analysis on geographically referenced information about crops and farmlands. Similarly, global positioning system (GPS) is also a technological tool for green innovations as it helps in easing down the farmers' operations even in zero visibility (Ramaano, 2022). The administrative type of green innovations in agriculture deals with administered usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.…”