Emergence, development and (market) structure of township tourism in Windhoek 2. It represents the first empirical case study on township tourism in Namibia. This book is the outcome of a study project of the Institute of Geography at the School of Cultural Studies and Social Science of the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. “Global Slumming” provides the grounds for a rethinking of the relationship between poverty and tourism in world society. Frequently referred to as “slum tourism” or “poverty tourism”, the phenomenon of guided tours around places of poverty has not only been causing some media sensation and much public outrage since its emergence in the past few years, it has developed into a vital field of scientific research, too. City tourism in the Namibian capital had thus become, at quite an early point in time, part of the trend towards utilising poor urban areas for purposes of tourism – a trend that set in at the beginning of the same decade. Guided sightseeing tours of the former township of Katutura have been offered in Windhoek since the mid-1990s. A new study on township tourism in Namibia has been published by a team of researchers from Osnabrück University including Malte Steinbrink, Michael Buning, Martin Legant, Berenike Schauwinhold and Tore Süßenguth.
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