Year: 2019 | Month: December | Volume 10 | Issue 2
An Evaluation of the Relative Success of the Tourism Industry in Kinigi Sector, Rwanda
Berthilde Mukantwali
Vicente Sinining
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Abstract:
This paper investigates the Rwandan tourism industry in general and tourism enterprise in Kinigi sector in particular. It critically investigates the relative success of the tourism in Kinigi Sector. The aim of this study was to identify the participation level of local people and the poor in the tourism industry and investigate on local people’s perception of significance of tourism in improving their livelihood. Thus, the research seeks to know how local people in Kinigi Sector participate in tourism industry. The study is important because it attempts to raise the voices of the ‘rural poor in Rwanda (specifically from the case study area) who might have not yet enjoyed the full benefits of tourism. A collection of questionnaires, interviews, observations and documentation were used to generate data in the paper. In general, the study showed that as residents’ perception of the tourism role increases, their life satisfaction with various life conditions increases. Tourism development strategists need to consider the strength of this relationship, and focus on maintaining the residents’ highest life satisfaction derived from various tourism dimensions. This finding also reveals that tourism developers in Rwanda should know how residents perceive tourism impacts and how it affects their life satisfaction according to tourism development stages.
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