Dark sky tourism and sustainable development in Namibia
Dark sky tourism and sustainable development in Namibia
Namibia is world-renowned for its incredibly dark skies by the astronomy community, and yet, the country is not well recognised as a dark sky destination by tourists and travellers. Forged by a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Namibia, together we are using astronomy as a means for capacity-building and sustainable socio-economic growth via educating tour guides and promoting dark sky tourism to relevant stakeholders....
Dalgleish, Hannah
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Mengistie, Getachew
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Backes, Michael
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Cotter, Garret
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Kasai, Eli
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Dalgleish, Hannah
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Mengistie, Getachew
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Backes, Michael
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Cotter, Garret
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Dalgleish, Hannah, Mengistie, Getachew, Backes, Michael, Cotter, Garret and Kasai, Eli
(2021)
Dark sky tourism and sustainable development in Namibia
arXiv
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(doi:10.48550/arXiv.2102.07088).
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Namibia is world-renowned for its incredibly dark skies by the astronomy community, and yet, the country is not well recognised as a dark sky destination by tourists and travellers. Forged by a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Namibia, together we are using astronomy as a means for capacity-building and sustainable socio-economic growth via educating tour guides and promoting dark sky tourism to relevant stakeholders....
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Submitted date: 14 February 2021
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