ABSTRACT
In 1973 the eminent Tanzanian academic Issa Shivji wrote in the Preface to his book, Tourism and Socialist Development, that ‘The justification for tourism in terms of it being “economically good” …completely fails to appreciate the integrated nature of the system of underdevelopment’. It introduced a debate which illustrated clearly that tourism and economic development need to be examined at two different levels simultaneously. Ignoring either of these levels results in an unrealistic assessment of tourism’s economic impacts.
