Finland might seem an unlikely partner for research on southern Africa, being rather different in climate, geography, society, and culture. Like its Scandinavian neighbours, however, the Finnish Foreign Ministry funds a number of ongoing bilateral aid programs in African nations. The principal editor of this volume, well-known and energetic tourism geographer Jarkko Saarinen, clearly managed to appropriate a certain component of this program to establish collaborations with his colleagues in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.