Current projects/publications African SEEDS is working on:
Presenting on upcoming Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Sustainable Tourism online course:
The GSTC Sustainable Tourism Training Program (STTP) offers practical insights and effective steps to help you improve your sustainability practices, and an opportunity to earn GSTC Certificate in Sustainable Tourism. The facilitated online training class of the STTP offers a convenient way to improve your sustainability skills in a flexible online learning environment, while at the same time learning from and interacting with GSTC experts and fellow sustainable tourism practitioners. The 2017 Q4 class is scheduled for October 30th – November 24th, 2017 (four weeks), and is led by GSTC Trainer Dr. D’Arcy Dornan.
Dr Sue Snyman will be presenting on community development and engagement in tourism and linking this to biodiversity conservation. For more information click here.
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity releases new publication on tourism concessions and partnerships in parks
September 2017 – The CBD Secretariat and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, with support from the UN World Tourism Organization releases new guidelines, Guidelines for tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas: generating sustainable revenues for conservation and development.
Designed to support tourism partnerships and concessions as means to increase the sector’s financial and technical contribution to conservation, the guidelines result from a wide consultation process with global experts and were validated in workshops in Southern Africa. Geared towards protected area authorities, ministries of environment and tourism, policy experts and interested businesses, the publication can be used as technical reference and as a capacity building tool.
The publication includes information on the fundamentals of tourism, different tourism partnerships, financing concessions, a step-by-step guide to concession processes, integrating sustainability, contract management and concession capacity requirements.
Download the guidelines: “Guidelines for tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas: generating sustainable revenues for conservation and development” in high resolution or low resolution.
Special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism (forthcoming)
Living on the Edge: Benefit-sharing from tourism and protected areas
Dr Susan Snyman and Dr Kelly Bricker (Guest editors)
Submissions should appeal to the general reader, contribute to theory, and consider implications for a range of stakeholders including, but not limited to, park and protected area managers, tourism ministries, city and state planners, and community organizations.
The Journal of Sustainable Tourism invites contributions on a wide range of topics, diverse geographic and human contexts, an expanded definition of benefits, an expanded definition of communities, parks and protected areas—that embrace the relationships relevant to benefit sharing. The guest editors will focus this special issue around the following concepts:
· Ecosystems Services and Benefit-Sharing from tourism in protected areas both rural and urban.
· Tourism Activities (contributing to physical, economic, mental, and social well-being outcomes)
· Sustainable Infrastructure (contributing to water, education, ancillary business, employment outcomes)
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· Private-Community Partnerships (contributing to livelihoods, conservation, poverty reduction, citizen science, stewardship)
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Book on private sector tourism in conservation areas in Africa (forthcoming)
Dr Susan Snyman and Dr Anna Spenceley
Tourism involves numerous stakeholders interacting in various partnerships and relationships. These stakeholders include governments, communities, NGOs, the private sector, and academics. With many African governments struggling to finance protected areas and the associated tourism, the role of the private sector is becoming increasingly important. The literature includes research on the role of government, communities and various other stakeholders but little has been comprehensively documented about the role of the private sector in tourism in Africa and the various ways that the private sector can engage in tourism.
There are no clear guidelines or analyses of the various partnership models available for the private sector or the roles of various stakeholders in these partnerships. Through the use of extensive case studies from throughout Africa this book will present a set of guidelines to ensure optimal benefits for stakeholders as well as promoting the sustainability of tourism in Africa. It will include descriptions of the various models/options for the private sector to engage in tourism in conservation areas in Africa including, amongst others, pure private sector ownership, joint ventures, tripartite agreements and government leases. Processes to develop partnerships from start to finish will be included as well as best practices for the private sector engaging in tourism. The book will allow for an assessment of what private sector tourism options are most suitable based on guidelines of conditions and desired outcomes promoting the long-term sustainability of African tourism.
Ecotourism industry bench-marking project
In my role as Wilderness Group Sustainability Manager we are working together with three other African ecotourism companies on a benchmarking project to identify, measure and analyse various sustainability indicators. The first round of data was collected in September 2017, with analysis currently underway.
Chapter in new book coming out in late 2017/early 2018.
Chapter: Snyman, S. (in press). The impact of tourism on host communities.
Case study for new book on Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism
CSR in the Tourism Industry?
The Status of and Potential for Certification, Codes of Conduct and Guidelines
In the process of writing a case study for a new book.
Snyman, S. (in press). Building sustainable conservation economies: Corporate Social Responsibility that makes good business sense