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Overview of Tourism to Africa - with reference to the Asian and Japanese outbound markets
Developed as a collaborative effort of the UNDP and the UNWTO in response to the policy recommendations issued at the fifth Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF V) and the acceleration of the implementation of the Yokohama Action Plan in the area of tourism development, the report intends to serve as a reference for policy makers and tourism businesses in realizing the tourism potential in Africa with the focus on the Asian, particularly on Japan’s, outbound market by conducting an analysis of the tourism trends, evaluation of tourism products, and review of tour business development practices in Africa.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1 The importance of tourism for Africa’s development
1.2 Study brief: Tokyo International Conference on African Development
1.3 Study method
1.4 Policy Recommendations for the Sustainable Development and
Promotion of Tourism in Africa
2. Africa’s tourism in context
2.1 Africa’s tourism economy
2.2 Current and future performance
2.3 External factors influencing tourism
2.4 Market structure and demand conditions
2.4.1 Key source markets
2.4.2 Key market segments
2.4.3 Market drivers
2.4.4 The Japanese market in Africa
2.5 Africa’s tourism competitiveness
2.6 Key resources and potential
2.7 Support services
2.8 Industry maturity
2.9 Major tourism initiatives
3. The business of tour operating in Africa
3.1 Survey methodology
3.2 Key regions and countries covered
3.3 Profile of tours
3.4 Preferred partner relationships
3.5 Marketing and distribution
3.6 Africa’s positioning and competitive advantages and disadvantages
3.7 Africa’s tourism performance
4. Summary recommendations for policy makers and tour operators involved
in Asian outbound tourism to Africa
Annex A: Report on Interviews with opinion leaders in selected African countries
Annex B: Examples of tour packages being sold in various key markets
Annex C: Directory of tourism organizations and associations in Africa
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Africa's Silk Road - China and India's New Economic Frontier
China and India’s new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa—home to 300 million of the globe’s poorest people and the world’s most formidable development challenge— presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of the Sub-Saharan continent into the global economy. Africa’s Silk Road finds that China and India’s South-South commerce with Africa is about far more than natural resources, opening the way for Africa to become a processor of commodities and a competitive supplier of goods and services to these countries—a major departure from its long-established relations with the North. A growing number of Chinese and Indian businesses active in Africa operate on a global scale, work with world class-technologies, produce products and services according to the most demanding standards, and foster the integration of African businesses into advanced markets.
There are significant imbalances, however, in these emerging commercial relationships. These can be addressed through a series of reforms in all countries:
- “At-the-border” reforms, such as elimination of China and India’s escalating tariffs on Africa’s leading exports, and elimination of Africa’s tariffs on certain inputs that make exports uncompetitive.
- “Behind-the-border” reforms in Africa, to unleash competitive market forces and strengthen its basic market institutions.
- “Between-the-border” improvements in trade facilitation mechanisms to decrease transactions costs.
- Reforms that leverage linkages between investment and trade, to allow African businesses to participate in global production networks that investments by Chinese and Indian firms can generate.
Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005: Understanding the Contributions of Different Investor Categories to Development. Implications for Targeting Strategies.
The 2005 Africa FDI survey, the third in the series, was conducted between May and November 2005 in 15 sub-Saharan African countries. Some 3,484 foreign investors were contacted and 1,216 valid responses were obtained. The survey develops detailed profiles of the different types of foreign investors that operate in the region and looks at the variations in characteristics between as well as within the groups. The study also investigates the impact that different kinds of FDI have on the host economies. In particular, effects on technology and know-how dissemination, skills development, local linkages, export, expenditures on local inputs, as well as employment growth are looked at. The performance of investors is also assessed to identify the fast growing subgroups in terms of sales, investments and employment.
Patterns of Africa-Asia Trade and Investment - Potential for Ownership and Partnership
The main objective of this report is to build a basic understanding of the potential of Africa-Asia trade and investment relations—a priority area recognized in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). This report thus looks to identify changes in patterns of African trade in the 1990s by using the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade), as analyzed by the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS), the World Bank’s data access software package.
Patterns of Africa-Asia trade and Investment Overview (PDF 237 KB)
Country Analytical Briefs with Compendium of Country-Specific Analysis of Africa-Asia Trade Complementarity
This report provides country-specific analyses of Africa’s trade (both export and import) in the form of a “Country Analytical Brief (CAB)” that examines changing patterns and the composition of export and import for individual African countries. CABs will also give an overview of trade institutions surrounding these countries and analyze their impact. CABs have been prepared for all the countries in Africa.
Competitiveness and Private Sector Development in Africa: Cross-Country Evidence from the World Bank's Investment Climate Data
This paper is an attempt to synthesize some of the key, commonly available indicators in a comparative framework, focusing on Africa and using countries such as China, India, Morocco, and Bolivia as international reference points. The results suggest that improved competitiveness in Africa will require lower costs of doing business and higher productivity, not lower real wages, which are not the main obstacle.
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Doing Business in 2005 Sub-Saharan Africa - Regional Profile
Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 145 countries—from Albania to Zimbabwe—and over time. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where, and why.
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Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2003
International investment in general and foreign direct investment (FDI) in particular is perceived as indispensable for the growth of developing countries in view of its multiple impact. This survey is a follow-up to an initiative launched in 2001 for assisting African investment promotion agencies in designing country specific strategies. The data and subsequent analyses will contribute to a better understanding of how to match national efforts for attracting FDI with investor motivations and decision criteria.