1st Edition
Urban Tourism in the Developing World The South African Experience
By Gustav Visser
Copyright 2007
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
337 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the past decade, the field of urban tourism has consolidated with the appearance of several books that concentrate upon the Western European and North American experience. Recently, the scope and range of urban research has widened considerably, including the welcome appearance of studies that examine the tourism phenomenon in cities outside the Euro-American heartland.Despite this growing... Read more
1. Tourism in Urban Africa: Setting the Scene Part One: Urban Tourism in Africa: Current Research and Current Trends 2. Tourism Research and Urban Africa: The South African Experience 3. International Tourist Flows and Urban Tourism in South Africa 4. “Sho’t Left”: Changing Domestic Tourism in South Africa Part Two: Urban Tourism Types in Africa 5. Conference and Exhibition Tourism in South Africa 6. Festival Tourism in Urban Africa: The Case of South Africa 7. Second Homes Tourism in Africa: Reflections on the South African Experience 8. Creative Industries and Urban Tourism: South African Perspectives Philosophical Dimensions of Public Policy 9. Gay Tourism in South Africa: The Cape Town Experience 10. Township Tourism in Africa: Emerging Tour Operators in Gauteng, South Africa Part Three: Urban Tourism Experiences across the South African Urban Hierarchy 11. Urban Tourism in Cape Town 12. Urban Tourism in Durban 13. Tourism Promotion in “Difficult Areas”: The Experience of Johannesburg Inner City 14. Understandings of Urban Regeneration, Heritage and Environmental Justice at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg 15. Tourism in Small Town South Africa
Biography
Christian M. Rogerson is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Gustav Visser is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.
