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This paper discusses tourism management in World Heritage sites and the impact of tourism on economic development using case studies of some African countries as Mali and Ethiopia. The results indicate that there is an affirmative relation between the presence of heritage sites and the amount of tourists. In Mali the local population plays a key role and benefits of cultural tourism through the deployment of the cultural capital and embodied it. In Ethiopia there is a need for improving the competitiveness of Ethiopia's destination to increase the tourism contribution in the local economy; income and employment opportunities.
Sally M. Farid (Sun,) studied this question.