Leisure Tourism Space and Urban Change: Lessons from Cape Town and Stellenbosch to Contemplate in Urban South Africa

Visser, Gustav

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25369-1_11

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“…Follow-up investigations relating to the role played by Airbnb in urban change, reinforced the concerns that tourism-led investment could lead to the exclusion of poorer residents (Visser, Erasmus & Miller, 2017). These concerns have been repeated in later investigations concerning the City of Cape Town (Visser, 2019a(Visser, , 2019b(Visser, , 2020Visser & Horn, 2021). Another potential contributor to tourism-led gentrification in the Woodstock area is the Heritage Protection Overlay Zone proposed by the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality as part of its municipal by-law.…”

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Tourism Gentrification in Urban Africa: Towards a Research Agenda

Horn,

Visser

2023

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Gentrification and the processes underlying its origin and evolution have been the subject of extensive much research, which has suggested various explanatory mechanisms or triggers of gentrification, including the impact of tourism. The study considers the relevance of tourism-induced gentrification in urban Africa and its possible consequences for tourism development and neighbourhood change in urban areas. According to the authors, tourism-induced gentrification occurs in a small number of African urban areas and is characterised by exclusionary practices that are similar to those that can often be observed in cities of the global North. A number of research avenues are proposed that consider the role of tourism-based development in urban Africa.

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