IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/deveza/v34y2017i1p105-120.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Understanding local entrepreneurship and small enterprises in the tourism–development nexus: The case of western Uganda

Author

Listed:
  • Bright Adiyia
  • Sarah De Rademaeker
  • Dominique Vanneste
  • Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa

Abstract

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 undermine short-term and monetary tourism effects. This article analyses how tourism stimulates local entrepreneurship and small enterprise development, and to what extent these small enterprises fuel non-monetary aspects of regional development. Evidence from career pathways of different types of local entrepreneurs in western Uganda suggests that tourism can enlarge peoples’ capabilities, awareness and assets to control their own well-being. This study indicates that tourism can act as a catalyst for small enterprise development in the local economy without inducing major skills’ leakages.

Suggested Citation

  • Bright Adiyia & Sarah De Rademaeker & Dominique Vanneste & Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa, 2017. "Understanding local entrepreneurship and small enterprises in the tourism–development nexus: The case of western Uganda," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(1), pages 105-120, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:34:y:2017:i:1:p:105-120
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2016.1259991
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1259991
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1259991?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Doh, Kyungrok & Park, Sangwon & Kim, Dae-Young, 2017. "Antecedents and consequences of managerial behavior in agritourism," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 511-522.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:34:y:2017:i:1:p:105-120. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CDSA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.