Constraints to consumption of South Africa's national parks among the emerging domestic tourism market

Krüger, Ernst; Douglas, Anneli

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“…The variables, Domestic Tourism and Leisure Tourism, represent categories with the highest potential to increase country's productivity in a successful tourism spending growth. This fact was determined in comparing the above-mentioned findings with those in the international studies by Massidda & Etzo (2012); Tribe (2015); Kruger & Douglas (2015); Scheyvens (2002); Samy (2016).…”

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“…The domestic tourism represents the largest part of worldwide travel spend (71.2% in 2018) and had the strongest growth in developing nations, continues to support opportunities by spreading development and regional economic benefits and building national pride (using the last available data from WTTC, 2019). The continued growth in domestic tourism is linked to the trend for shorter holidays closer to home, a phenomenon referred to as "staycation" (Papatheodorou et al, 2010) and global trends indicate that tourism is becoming a regional/national rather than a global phenomenon (Kruger, Douglas, 2015). Domestic tourists with limited incomes generate numerous economic benefits, for example (Scheyvens, 2002, Samy, 2016: bringing economic benefits to areas not frequented by other tourists; less subject to seasonality than international tourism; spending more on locally produced goods with cheaper prices compared to imported luxury items; requiring small accommodation services with basic infrastructure therefore ensuring lower overhead costs and minimizing the need for imported goods; significant multiplier effect from relying on local skills and resources.…”

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Tourist spending and productivity of economy in OECD countries – research on perspectives of sustainable tourism

Gavurová¹,

Suhányi²,

Rigelský³

2020

JESI

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Tourism represents the sector of services which is developing the most considerably and dynamically. However, its development is influenced by: trends in globalization, process of demographic aging, economic parameters, geographical conditions of a country, consumers, and other aspects. The following aspects contribute to its development: new destinations, markets, innovative activities in service sector, and also technological development. Tourism plays a significant economic role in a process of sustainable regional development, where it helps to develop low-growth regions. Monitoring and quantification of tourism outputs is a very complicated process. There also absents a quality database, which complicates a quantification of sector's efficiency and a creation of national and international benchmarking indicators that inform of sustainable tourism level. These aspects demand a realization of multi-dimensional analyses, which would examine causal relations between tourism factors and economic parameters of a country. The study's motivation was driven by all of the above-mentioned facts. It aims at researching an influence of tourism spending on OECD countries' productivity. Consequently, it evaluates their potential of the sector's sustainability. Multiple analytical procedures, which were determined by database availability, were performed in order to achieve the, research aim. The following analyses were performed besides the descriptive statistics: variance analysis of researched variables between individual years and OECD countries, context analysis, regression and cluster analyses. There were analysed 5 variables that characterize individual types of tourist spending: Business Tourism Spending, Domestic Tourism Spending, Leisure Tourism Spending, Outbound Travel & Tourism Expenditure , Visitor Exports (Foreign Spending) and one variable that characterizes productivity during 2010 -2018 for all OECD countries. Spending variables were standardized per 1,000 inhabitants of a given country and productivity was measured by GDP per capita, while both groups of variables were provided in USD (fair value). The analyses' results provided interesting findings. The regression models' outputs confirmed an influence of tourist spending on a country's productivity. All variables that indicate spending are significant. The cluster analysis's results allowed a selection of countries into four groups. There is two huge clusters and other two clusters represent only one countries in specific cluster. Luxemburg and Iceland give us different values than countries in other clusters.

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Tourist spending and productivity of economy in OECD countries – research on perspectives of sustainable tourism

Gavurová¹,

Suhányi²,

Rigelský³

2020

JESI

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“…In the last five years (2018-2022), promotional strategies have been implemented in order to encourage domestic tourism activity in South Africa and more efforts have been made to strengthen this sector so that it can also generate economic growth during traditional off-peak seasons in international tourism (Adinolfi et al, 2021;Dlomo & Ezeuduji, 2020;Ezeuduji & Dlomo, 2020b;Kruger & Douglas, 2015;NDT, 2011;Nengovhela et al, 2017). Such promotional strategies include the "Sho't Left" campaign, the "buy now -travel later" campaign and the "whatever you are looking for, it is here" campaign (Adinolfi et al, 2021;Mutizira, 2021;TRALAC, 2020).…”

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“…The main purpose of the "buy now -travel later" campaign, was to provide domestic tourists with an opportunity to purchase holiday packages that they could use at a later date when they have free time and are also more financially capable to engage in domestic tourism activities (NDT, 2022;TRALAC, 2020). Finally, the "whatever you are looking for, it is here" campaign was implemented by the NDT's Domestic Tourism Branch as part of the Domestic Tourism Growth Strategy to create a holiday culture that encourages participation in domestic tourism by people from higher and lower status groups in order to contribute towards the country's economy (Kruger & Douglas, 2015;NDT, 2011;Rogerson, 2015). Collectively, these campaigns have played a major role in improving the consumption of domestic tourism services (Kruger & Douglas, 2015;NDT, 2022;Rogerson, 2015;TRALAC, 2020).…”

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Unlocking the potential of domestic tourism in uncertain times: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Mzobe¹,

Makoni²,

Nyikana³

2023

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This study seeks to investigate the capacity of domestic tourism to revive the tourism industry in South Africa during uncertain times using the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argue that domestic tourism should be promoted as a way of offsetting losses experienced when international tourism is in decline. The purpose of the empirical study was to assess perceptions and attitudes regarding domestic tourism in South Africa. A self-selected sample of 350 respondents living in South Africa were asked about their travel behaviour and tourism practices in 2019 and 2020 as well as their post-pandemic travel plans. The authors believe that domestic tourism has the capacity to stimulate tourism growth in uncertain times after the recent pandemic, as most of the respondents indicated their willingness to travel more domestically after the pandemic and to engage in different types of local tourism. However, they emphasized the need to reduce prices in order to ensure that domestic customers could afford domestic tourism products offered the during times of external shocks.

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“…The biggest inhibiting factors according to respondents from the domestic tourism survey are related to affordability (40%) and that they have no reason to take a trip (23%) (South African Tourism, 2019). The lack of a tourism culture has been shaped by the legacy of apartheid, and although the composition and nature of domestic tourism has been changing since then, domestic tourism remains below its expected potential (Kruger and Douglas, 2015). Figure 13.…”

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Leveraging tourism development for sustainable and inclusive growth in South Africa

Glocker¹,

Haxton²

2020

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. 2  ECO/WKP(2020)29 Unclassified OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s). Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works. Comments on Working Papers are welcomed, and may be sent to the Economics Department,

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Constraints to consumption of South Africa's national parks among the emerging domestic tourism market

Abstract: Tourism plays a recognised role in the South

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

Tourist spending and productivity of economy in OECD countries – research on perspectives of sustainable tourism

Tourist spending and productivity of economy in OECD countries – research on perspectives of sustainable tourism

Unlocking the potential of domestic tourism in uncertain times: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Leveraging tourism development for sustainable and inclusive growth in South Africa

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