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| Title: | The economic geography of South Africa's hotel industry 1990-2010 |
| Author: | Rogerson, Jayne M. |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Periodical: | Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330) |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 425-446 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | hotels tourism |
| External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-012-9186-5 |
| Abstract: | This article examines the changing geography of hotels in South Africa during the period 1990-2010 as part of the country's expanding tourism economy. The analysis confirms the importance of several locational influences, which have been isolated in existing literature, in particular the significance of spatial patterns of market demand related to international leisure travel, domestic business tourism, and of the hosting of mega-events. Since 1990, the South African hotel industry has adjusted to new market demands related to the vibrancy of international tourism growth as well as an expansion of domestic tourism, including a new black leisure and business tourism market. By 2010, the hotel industry and its spatial distribution reflects the enormous changes which have taken place in the South African tourism sector since the country became a democracy. The transformed geography of the hotel industry is a response to changing demands associated with South Africa's rise as an emerging international leisure and business tourism destination, including for regional visitors from sub-Saharan Africa, the expansion of domestic business tourism, and the shifting domestic leisure tourism market, which incorporates an increasing share of black South African tourists. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |