Sustainability Assessment Processes for Tourism in the African Context: A Literature Review

The study aims to provide a clear overview of how tourism sustainability has evolved around Africa and, specifically, how these views have impacted Zimbabwe. The need for sustainability has been overshadowed by the need to enhance socio-economic goals like creating employment, fostering democracy, equity, increasing business opportunities, and achieving some environmental goals like combating climate change. The study will look into what governments have done to move towards tourism sustainability and identify how these processes have been employed to create sustainably viable policies and processes in Africa. The study will explore the trends, challenges, and opportunities related to sustainability tourism practices in various settings across African countries and seeks to address the key research question: ‘What are the current sustainability assessment processes used in literature, and how effective are they in promoting sustainable practices?’ in a bid to uncover the various perspectives of sustainability and theoretically evaluate its holistic nature while gaining a deeper understanding of how African governments and stakeholders have customized the global understanding of tourism sustainability to create a more ‘home grown’ solution for enhancing sustainability within operations that fosters governments to enact policies to support this effect.