The Limits of Rural Tourism in COVID-19 South Africa: Perceptions from ‘Left Behind’ Rural Spaces

Rogerson, Christian M.; Sixaba, Zinzi

doi:10.46222/ajhtl.19770720.000

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“…Rural tourism has been observed to be one of the more resilient sectors of tourism in the wake of the pandemic (Marques, Guedes & Bento, 2021;Grandi, Macdonald & Tankibayeva, 2022). With COVID-19 triggering changes in consumer travel preferences towards open spaces, solitude and nature, potential opportunities opened for rural tourism in several countries, albeit with challenges to reach that potential (Giddy, Rogerson & Rogerson, 2022;Kinczel & Müller, 2022;Rogerson & Rogerson, 2022a;Rogerson & Sixaba, 2022;.…”

Section: Rural Tourism -International Research Directionsmentioning

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Rural Tourism Under Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Transkei

Sixaba¹,

Rogerson²

2023

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Rural tourism scholarship has greatly expanded over the past two decades. One aspect of rural tourism that is undeveloped in literature is the historical evolution of rural tourism destinations. This paper uses an historical approach and archival documentary sources to examine the evolution of rural tourism under apartheid in one of the former Bantustans of South Africa, namely Transkei. It is shown tourism became a sector of policy interest because of disappointments associated with national government programmes for industrial decentralization. Early tourism promotion centred on leisure tourism around the natural beauty and attractions of Transkei’s coastal areas. With the grant of ‘independence’, however, a new institutional environment emerged which resulted in the Transkei becoming a focus for casino tourism at a time when casino gambling was prohibited in South Africa. The growth of casino tourism was, however, linked to corruption which occurred between South African tourism capital and the leadership of this Bantustan.

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Section: Rural Tourism -International Research Directionsmentioning

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Rural Tourism Under Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Transkei

Sixaba¹,

Rogerson²

2023

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“…In an earlier Ghana study by Joseph Mensah-Ansah (2011) the constraints facing small tourism accommodation service providers related to weaknesses in the institutional environment and poor physical infrastructure with unstable power supplies, inadequate water systems and telecommunication networks. Such infrastructural shortcomings are widespread problems that limit tourism small firm development in many parts of the Global South including South Africa (Rogerson & Sixaba, 2022).…”

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‘Transformation’ and Tourism Small Firm Development in South Africa: Evidence from Eastern Cape Province

Sixaba¹,

Rogerson²

2023

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Since democratic change South Africa has pursued a series of programmes which are targeted at empowering groups and individuals who had been disadvantaged under apartheid. In the tourism sector government initiatives for ‘transformation’ include a commitment to promote new entrepreneurship opportunities for Black-owned small medium or micro-enterprises. This article examines the challenges facing transformation through a study of the constraints operating on Black-owned tourism enterprises in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. The research is situated within the international literature on small firms in tourism and specifically the challenges of small tourism business development in the Global South. The analysis draws from a survey of 79 Black-owned accommodation establishments as well as semi-structured interviews with tourism entrepreneurs. The results reveal a range of constraints. In this resource-constrained environment several challenges around transformation relate to finance, human resources and knowledge which have been identified as limiting tourism small firm development both in the Global North and South. Other constraints speak to the specificities of the South African experience. Tourism entrepreneurs must confront certain historical legacies of the apartheid past as well as corruption practices which are widespread in the local tourism economy and must be acknowledged as obstacles for the advancement of transformation.

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A Review of Recent Small Town Research in South Africa

Donaldson,

Majiet

2023

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The Limits of Rural Tourism in COVID-19 South Africa: Perceptions from ‘Left Behind’ Rural Spaces

Cited by 4 publications

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Rural Tourism Under Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Transkei

Rural Tourism Under Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Transkei

‘Transformation’ and Tourism Small Firm Development in South Africa: Evidence from Eastern Cape Province

A Review of Recent Small Town Research in South Africa

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