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Tourism and development issues in contemporary South Africa

Christian M. Rogerson, +1 more
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The article was published on 2004-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.

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Responsible tourism management: the missing link between business owners' attitudes and behaviour in the Cape Town tourism industry.

Nicole Frey, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the current attitudes and perceptions of tourism business owners in Cape Town towards responsible tourism management (RTM) practices were investigated and a survey data of 244 tourism businesses were used to statistically test what factors are causing the low levels of RTM practices in the Cape Town tourism industry.
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Tourism, creativity and development

Greg Richards, +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between tourism and creativity and its consequences for tourism development in different parts of the world has been explored in this paper, and the contribution of creativity to tourism and to development strategies in general is assessed, and areas for future research are outlined, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of creativity as a tourism development strategy and marketing tool.
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Progress in Tourism Management: from the geography of tourism to geographies of tourism - a review.

Colin Michael Hall, +2 more
- 01 Feb 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the development of geographical contributions to the study of tourism over the last decade and review the current debates and issues facing those who work within the subject and where the subject will evolve in the next five years.
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Pro-Poor local economic development in South Africa: The role of pro-poor tourism

Christian M. Rogerson
- 01 Jan 2006 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe features of the emerging nexus in South Africa between tourism, poverty alleviation and local economic development (LED) interventions and argue that the South African experience of evolving a strong pro-poor focus in LED planning is distinctive in the international context of writings on LED.
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Local economic development in Africa: Global context and research directions

Christian M. Rogerson, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the international development of local economic development (LED), of its contested definitions and theoretical status, and of existing scholarship on the topic of LED policy and practice specifically across sub-Saharan Africa.