The objective is this volume is to contribute to ongoing policy debates as well as an academic understanding of the shifting role of tourism in modern South Africa. This collection of new research material seeks to contribute towards raising the South African profile within a growing international scholarship concerning issues of tourism and development, and of tourism and empowerment. Some of the key themes dealt with in the book include pro-poor tourism, tourism education and the use of new technologies, investment, nature-based tourism, new products, and barriers to developmental tourism.