Unpacking tourism SMMEs in South Africa: structure, support needs and policy response

Christian Rogerson

Development Southern Africa, 2005, vol. 22, issue 5, 623-642

Abstract: Small enterprise (SMME) support policy in post-apartheid South Africa has traditionally involved support initiatives in the form of 'generic' packages that overlook the specificities of particular sectors. In this article the specific issues concerning SMME development in tourism are investigated. Against a backcloth of a review of international scholarship on tourism small firms, the article presents findings from recent empirical investigations into the progress and problems of tourism SMME development in South Africa. Within the international scholarship and policy debates on tourism, it is argued that the South African experience is particularly distinctive in two respects: (1) the support of particular groups of tourism SMMEs linked to objectives of transformation and (2) the introduction of dedicated tourism-specific support programmes for SMME development.

Date: 2005
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