Tourist guides’ perceptions of cultural heritage tourism in South Africa

Merwe Clinton David van der ()
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Merwe Clinton David van der: University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Education, Social & Economic Sciences, Department of Geography, PO Box 522, WITS, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa; phone: +27 117 173 173

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2016, vol. 34, issue 34, 117-130

Abstract: Heritage tourism is a fast growing niche of cultural tourism worldwide. In Africa, several countries, including South Africa, place great emphasis on the growth of heritage tourism because of its potential for local economic development. Cultural and heritage tourism are being advocated as an important niche within the South African economy. This paper explores the perceptions of cultural heritage tourist guides in South Africa towards heritage tourism, it is argued that the country’s National Department of Tourism must improve the poor governance and poor management of South African heritage assets, and enhance the preservation, transformation and segmented marketing of South Africa’s cultural assets (at all levels of government) in order to sustain and grow cultural tourism in the future.

Keywords: cultural; tourist guides; heritage tourism; sustainable tourism; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/bog-2016-0039

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