ABSTRACT
In the past forty years, there has been a phenomenal growth in international tourism. This is despite the world economic instability of the 1980s (Harrison, 1992) and the recent financial crisis of the 1990s. Many international organizations, such as the United Nations and UNESCO, as well as individual economists, have, in fact, stressed the economic benefits to be gained from utilizing a country's natural and cultural heritage to provide a large source of foreign exchange earnings (Picard, 1996). Tourism can play an important role in this process, as well as indirectly assisting national infrastructure development, and the employment and upskilling of locals (Harrison, 1992).
