{"id":211776,"date":"2025-10-29T20:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/rwanda-luxury-tourism-is-a-risky-strategy-for-african-economies-new-study-of-botswana-mauritius-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:13:48","slug":"rwanda-luxury-tourism-is-a-risky-strategy-for-african-economies-new-study-of-botswana-mauritius-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/rwanda-luxury-tourism-is-a-risky-strategy-for-african-economies-new-study-of-botswana-mauritius-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Luxury Tourism Is a Risky Strategy for African Economies &#8211; New Study of Botswana, Mauritius, Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind of government is in place?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Pritish Behuria is a scholar of the political economy of development who has conducted a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/african-studies-review\/article\/deceptive-allure-of-luxury-tourism-the-political-economy-of-tourism-strategies-in-mauritius-botswana-and-rwanda\/E50820F4A03BAF9ACC9ADCA1B6B03C2D\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> in Botswana, Mauritius and Rwanda to find answers to questions like this. We asked him about his findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>What is luxury tourism and how prevalent is it in Africa?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Luxury tourism aims to attract high-spending tourists to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind of government is in place? Pritish Behuria is a scholar of the political economy of development who has conducted a study in Botswana, Mauritius and Rwanda to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581235:8e86290aed841953622bc5fc3a1bfac2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4380,4718,2462,13486,12064,5547,257,10878,4702,254,6986,6056,1634],"class_list":["post-211776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-economies","tag-luxury","tag-mauritius","tag-news","tag-risky","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-study","tag-tourism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581235:8e86290aed841953622bc5fc3a1bfac2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}