Romance Tourism: Exploring the Allure of Love Within African Borders
Romantic tourism, also referred to as love tourism or relationship tourism, has grown in popularity amongst world travellers seeking romantic encounters, love or marriage while exploring new destinations. Authors Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont first introduced the term' romance tourism' in their 1995 publication titled For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica to describe the relationships between western female tourists and local black men generally referred to as 'Beach Boys'.
Romance tourism has existed for much longer, as Samuel Sunday Segun Odunlami points out in his 2009 research...