ABSTRACT

While tourism usually promises to provide employment to the local community, the jobs are most often unskilled, menial and poorly paid . . . More often than not, the needs and rights of indigenous peoples are ignored. For example in west Nepal, the Chhetri people were moved from their lands to make way for Lake Rara National Park . . . In Kenya’s Shaba reserve, scarce water is diverted from the spring once used by local Samburu herdsmen to water their cattle, in order to fill the swimming pool of the Sarova Shaba Hotel . . .