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The significance of festivals to regional economies: measuring the economic value of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in South Africa
(IT Publishing, 2011)
This paper estimates the economic value of South Africa's longest running national arts festival, the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in the Eastern Cape Province. The Eastern Cape is a middle-income province (6.6% of ...
Assimilation of tourism satellite accounts and applied general equilibrium models to inform tourism policy analysis
(IP Publishing, 2011)
Historically, tourism policy analysis in South Africa has posed challenges to accurate measurement. The primary reason for this is that tourism is not designated as an 'industry' in standard economic accounts. This paper ...
Does conservation make sense to local communities?
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
The Kruger National Park in South Africa is a key ecotourism attraction for both domestic and international tourists. The South African National Parks have recently come under pressure to uplift communities and to build ...
Running a greener race: willingness–to–pay evidence from the Old Mutual Two Oceans marathon in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)
Environmentally and socially responsible leisure activity has become a key issue in tourism development. Service providers are keen to promote their environmental sustainability credentials and people are starting to pay ...
The question is not whether to promote or not to promote, but rather when to promote
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) is one of South Africa's largest and most popular arts festivals. The success of the festival is dependent on the number of tickets sold. Therefore, in order to ensure an ...
South Africa calling cultural tourists
(Sabinet, 2013)
Although cultural tourism is the most prevalent type of tourism in the world it still remains invisible in South Africa’s tourism landscape. Despite the country’s unique cultural heritage resource base and the fact that ...
Developing community-based tourism in South Africa: addressing the missing link: tourism and leisure
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Tourism has been widely proposed as a tool contributing to development. Community-based tourism (CBT) has been specifically recognised as a tourism development approach aimed at facilitating the development of disadvantaged ...
Critical ecotourism factors applicable to national parks: a visitor perspective
(Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2014)
South Africa boasts 21 national parks managed by South African National Parks (SANParks), which is the leading conservation organization and also the largest provider of ecotourism experiences in South Africa. Because ...
Telling or selling? Experiencing South African cultural heritage tourism products
(2013)
With the advent of the experience economy the unique experiential value of cultural heritage products comes to the forefront of cultural tourism development and is the main value proposition for emerging destinations, ...
Regional economic impacts of events: a comparison of methods
(AOSIS, 2015)
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and comparison of three related methods for modelling
the short-run economic impact of events, namely the partial Input-Output (I-O), Social Accounting Matrix
(SAM) and ...