Heritage tourism in the global South: Development impacts of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, South Africa

Christian M. Rogerson; Clinton D. van der Merwe

doi:10.1177/0269094215614270

Heritage tourism in the global South: Development impacts of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, South Africa

Christian M. Rogerson
, Clinton D. van der Merwe

School of Tourism and Hospitality

University of Johannesburg

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Abstract

Heritage tourism is an increasingly popular form of tourism across many destinations globally. Maximising the opportunities from heritage tourism is a critical policy issue in the global South. Against a backcloth of the rising importance of heritage tourism for local development agendas across the global South this paper seeks to analyse the local impacts of one major new heritage development project operationalised in South Africa, namely the Cradle of Humankind. In the international context this heritage project is a state-led, infrastructure-led initiative introduced into an economically marginal area in search of pro-poor growth. The analysis suggests that currently this anchor project has not reached its anticipated potential for energising local development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	234-248
Number of pages	15
Journal	Local Economy
Volume	31
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094215614270
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2016

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Heritage tourism
South Africa
local economic impacts
marginal regions

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Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)

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