Christian M. Rogerson

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of coastal tourism in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) states and accompanying broad policy challenges are investigated, with a special focus on the leveraging of coastal and marine tourism for an inclusive tourism economy.

Abstract: Over the past two decades a major burst of scholarship has occurred around tourism and local economic development futures in South Africa. This study addressed the question of key stakeholder perceptions of local economic development through tourism as the economic driver. In addition, it examines the challenges for enhancing the local development role of the tourism sector. Arguably, stakeholders at the coalface of tourism and local development issues, such as tourism business owners and local government officials, can offer useful insights into the everyday problems of maximizing the impact of tourism in local municipalities. The focus is on the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality (KSDM) in Eastern Cape province. The results are presented and dissected from 33 interviews conducted with private sector stakeholders as well as 20 government stakeholders. Stakeholder perceptions were investigated concerning three major themes: (1) the role and prospects for tourism and local economic development, (2) the use of municipal assets for tourism development; and, (3) the challenges facing tourism businesses for local economic development The research findings underscore several factors that explain the decline of the tourism economy of KSDM since 2006 and reduced its contribution to local economic development. Central issues surround crime and safety, infrastructural deficiencies, and shortcomings of the local government itself, including its failure to maintain critical municipal assets essential for tourism development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the focus is the question of sub-contracting between large and small-scale industry in South Africa and in particular the manner in which many policy observers are now looking to Japan and the Pacific Rim for an appropriate model in evolving such linkages.

TL;DR: In this article, urban management in a socialist transition: The case of Harare, Zimbabwe, is discussed, and a case study of the urban management of a city in the context of a democratic transition is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the linkages between the tourism and agriculture sectors in Botswana using evidence gathered from the country's growing safari lodge accommodation sector, and revealed limited local linkages and the existence of high levels of food imports from neighbouring South Africa.