in the 1980s and early 1990s,when Africans first realized that tourism could be way out of their poverty,they built very large concrete hotels on the beaches of kenya,South Africa,and other countries. For a time the charter flights poured in from Germany and ltaly. The tourists hoped to see lions, but also wanted to lie by the pool and to eat food from their own country and enjoy the other comforts of home. the revenue from tourism rose sharply, but most of it went to international tour operators.