The Evolution of Hotels in Johannesburg 1890-1948: A Case of Historical Urban Tourism

Christian, M Rogerson; Jayne, Mark

doi:10.30892/gtg.23310-324

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“…From the desks of tourism geographers there are a number of recent examples of works which investigate issues around the emergence of South Africa as an early health tourism destination (Rogerson and Rogerson, 2021a), the evolution of the hotel sector (J.M. Rogerson, 2018Rogerson and Rogerson, 2018, 2022a, 2022b, or the growth of business and conference tourism in South Africa (C.M. .…”

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Transnational Tourism Development: An Early Episode From Colonial Southern Africa

ROGERSON

2024

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Cross-border tourism marketing and promotion is a widely endorsed approach for encouraging regional tourism development. The aim in this paper is to uncover an early historical example of regional tourism development which occurred in colonial Southern Africa. Using archival sources the study pinpoints the contributions of publicity material produced by South African Railways for the promotion of tourism in the territories of colonial Zimbabwe and Mozambique. In encouraging international tourism to South Africa during the 1920s and 1930s there was an understanding that South Africa’s leading national tourism assets were best packaged together for ‘transnational tourism development’ with marketing for the iconic attraction of Victoria Falls as well as Lourenço Marques. The destination which was promoted as ‘South Africa’ in tourism guidebooks did not correspond with the geopolitical entity of the Union of South Africa, instead it embraced the attractions of Portuguese-controlled Mozambique and several tourism products in the British-controlled territory of Rhodesia.

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Transnational Tourism Development: An Early Episode From Colonial Southern Africa

ROGERSON

2024

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“…Within the region of sub-Saharan Africa urban tourism has been most advanced in South Africa's major cities (Rogerson and Visser, 2007;Rogerson, 2017, 2021c) and attracted considerable scholarly interest particularly among tourism geographers (Rogerson and Visser, 2020). Leading themes of research relate to tourism's role in contemporary urban economic development (Rogerson, 2002, the development of accommodation services (Rogerson, 2011a(Rogerson, , 2011bGreenberg and Rogerson, 2015;Visser et al, 2017;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2018;Greenberg and Rogerson, 2019;Visser and Eastes, 2020), and a strand of literature which explores historical dimensions of urban tourism in South Africa particularly during the troubled period of apartheid (Rogerson, 2017 andRogerson, 2019;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2019;, 2021d, 2021e, 2022aRogerson, 2022). For cities of Southern Africa resident perspectives on urban tourism and tourism product development have been investigated in a number of different contexts (Nunkoo and Ramkissoon, 2010;Makoni and Tichaawa, 2017;Tichaawa and Moyo, 2019).…”

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Stakeholder perspectives concerning the progress of South Africa’s urban ecotourism destination

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Rogerson²

2023

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South Africa is a leading destination for ecotourism. The establishment of ecotourism projects in South Africa - as is the case with most of the world - has been associated with geographically remote rural spaces located in the peripheral regions of the tourism space economy. This paper directs attention to the progress of an urban ecotourism destination in South Africa, namely Dinokeng in the Tshwane metropolitan area which is centred around the city of Pretoria. Dinokeng is distinguished by the fact that it hosts a Big Five game reserve in a metropolitan area. The research is based on stakeholder interviews conducted with 27 accommodation providers. The present study is original for its subject focus on urban ecotourism and by offering stakeholder perspectives on the emergence, progress and challenges of this ecotourism destination as a vital dimension of tourism change occurring in the Global South.

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Recent Trends in South African Tourism Geographies

Rogerson

Visser

2019

Geographies of Tourism and Global Change

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The Evolution of Hotels in Johannesburg 1890-1948: A Case of Historical Urban Tourism

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Transnational Tourism Development: An Early Episode From Colonial Southern Africa

Transnational Tourism Development: An Early Episode From Colonial Southern Africa

Stakeholder perspectives concerning the progress of South Africa’s urban ecotourism destination

Recent Trends in South African Tourism Geographies

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