Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa offers an accessible and understandable overview of the challenges of integrating sustainability into tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides some interesting recommendations on how these could be overcome.

Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Geography Chair Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands, and a Research Associate at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His interdisciplinary research interests lie in tourism policy and planning, cultural heritage management and international development planning.

Albert Nsom Kimbu is Senior Lecturer in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, and a Senior Research Associate at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He researches development entrepreneurship, stakeholder networks, women and inclusive development in hospitality and tourism.

1. Varieties of Sustainability in Tourism Policy and Planning

Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong and Albert Nsom Kimbu

2. Historical Trajectories of Tourism Development Policies and Planning in Ghana, 1957-2017

Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong

3. Sustainable Tourism Development and Food Security in Ethiopia: Policy-making and Planning

Gebeyaw Ambelu Degarege and Brent Lovelock

4. Collaborative Networks for Sustainable Human Capital Management in Women's Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Role of Tourism Policy

Albert Nsom Kimbu, Michael Zisuh Ngoasong, Ogechi Adeola and Ewoenam Afenyo-Agbe

5. Unlocking Policy Impediments for Service Delivery in Tourism Firms: Evidence from Small and Medium Sized Hotels in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tembi M. Tichaawa and Albert N. Kimbu

6. Living Inside a UNESCO World Heritage Site: The Perspective of the Maasai Community in Tanzania

Kokel Melubo and Brent Lovelock

7. Community-based Tourism Around National Parks in Senegal: The Implications of Colonial Legacies in Current Management Policies

Aby Sène-Harper and Moustapha Séye

8. Forty Years of Climate and Land-Cover Change and its Effects on Tourism Resources in Kilimanjaro National Park

Halima Kilungu, Rik Leemans, Pantaleo K.T. Munishi, Sarah Nicholls and Bas Amelung

9. Tourism Governance and Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Pius Siakwah, Regis Musavengane and Llewellyn Leonard

10. Reconsidering 'sustainability' in tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: a research agenda

Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, Albert Nsom Kimbu and Jarkko Saarinen