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Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue?
Dissertation (MSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/96948 Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? Botha, Christoffel u18192247@tuks.co.za Sieber, Nina Raine UCTD Climate crisis Climate Change Global Warming Sinking island Seychelles Eastern Africa Island tourism Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth Humanities theses SDG-08 SDG-13: Climate action Humanities theses SDG-13 Dissertation (MSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism))--University of Pretoria, 2024. In the fight against the international climate crisis, the opinions of small island nation states echo with a unique resonance. These islands, though small in size, and often marginalised in earth’s oceans, are bearing witness to the massive impacts of climate change first-hand, standing often times alone and vulnerable against the rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and ecological disturbances that threaten their very existence. As the world wrestles with the urgent need for sustainable solutions, it is important to listen to the insights and experiences of these small island nations and how they have gone about preparing to “accommodate” climate change and global warming into their economies and day-to-day lives. The climate crisis in recent years has become an urgent global concern, necessitating creative and sustainable solutions to mitigate its widespread and ever-evolving effects. Amidst this backdrop, the tourism industry it was found holds immense potential to drive positive change in the wake of this contemporary crisis affecting both the global North and South. This dissertation sets forth to consider tourism against this backdrop of climate change crisis, and questions if the former can be adapted or positioned to combat the latter, if at all possible. This dissertation will utilise the Seychelles as the primary case study to this investigation to test this hypothesis. In this context theoretical and practical frameworks for climate change and tourism will be devised and then applied to the indicated island nation state. This study aims to recommend various ways in which the Seychelles can off-set its designation as a “sinking nation” by situating tourism, potentially, at the helm of the island nation’s economy to combat climate change. University of Pretoria Bursary for Masters and Doctoral Students University of Pretoria Bursary for Masters and Doctorial Studies Historical and Heritage Studies MSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism) Restricted Faculty of Humanities 2024-07-12T08:54:11Z 2024-07-12T08:54:11Z 2024-09 11-07-2024 Dissertation * S2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96948 Disclaimer Letter en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Climate crisis Climate Change Global Warming Sinking island Seychelles Eastern Africa Island tourism Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth Humanities theses SDG-08 SDG-13: Climate action Humanities theses SDG-13 Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? |
| title | Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? |
| title_full | Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? |
| title_fullStr | Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? |
| title_short | Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? |
| title_sort | sinking seychelles tourism to the rescue |
| topic | UCTD Climate crisis Climate Change Global Warming Sinking island Seychelles Eastern Africa Island tourism Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth Humanities theses SDG-08 SDG-13: Climate action Humanities theses SDG-13 |
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