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Dark sky tourism and sustainable development in Namibia

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2022-01-05 v1

Abstract

Namibia is world-renowned for its incredibly dark skies by the astronomy community, and yet, the country is not well recognised as a dark sky destination by tourists and travellers. Forged by a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Namibia, together we are using astronomy as a means for capacity-building and sustainable socio-economic growth via educating tour guides and promoting dark sky tourism to relevant stakeholders.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.07088,
  title  = {Dark sky tourism and sustainable development in Namibia},
  author = {Hannah Dalgleish and Getachew Mengistie and Michael Backes and Garret Cotter and Eli Kasai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07088},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted in IAUS367 Proceedings; 2 pages, 1 figure

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