Tourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife management

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dc.contributor.authorSulle, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorBanka, Holti
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-11T07:24:08Z
dc.date.available2018-10-11T07:24:08Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractTourism activities occurring on communal lands such as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are increasing in Tanzania. This is the result of natural resources governance reforms aimed to empower communities to manage and benefit directly from resources found in their jurisdictions. This article explores the impacts of taxes imposed on tourism activities occurring on communal lands and the emerging politics of resource and revenue sharing among WMA member villages. In the process, we use empirical data gathered from two WMAs in northern Tanzania between 2006 and 2016. We find that while the current high tax rates on tourism businesses occurring at the grassroots level reduce revenue earned by communities, the main challenge facing the studied WMAs is the model of revenue sharing among WMA member villages. Currently, as the result of WMA regulations, villages which had prior arrangement with tour operators in their land have suffered revenue losses as they have to share revenue equally with other members of the WMA. We argue that the current tax regime coupled with the contested cost and benefit sharing model not only lower returns to grassroots communities--which in turn discourage their much needed participation in conservation-tourism initiatives--but also generate new forms of struggles over resource control.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationSulle, E. & Banka, H. (2017). Tourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife management. Conservation and Society, 15(4): 465-473en_US
dc.identifier.issn0972-4923
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_15_28
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4106
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherMedknow Publicationsen_US
dc.rights© Sulle and Banka 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and distribution of the article, provided the original work is cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectCommunity-based conservationen_US
dc.subjectWildlifeen_US
dc.subjectWMAen_US
dc.subjectTourism taxationen_US
dc.subjectDecentralisationen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleTourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife managementen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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