Hotel location in Africa's world class city: The case of johannesburg, South Africa

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Abstract

Urban tourism is of rising importance for economic and tourism geographers. One of the most important elements for urban tourism is the hotel economy. Against a backdrop of international debates around the location of hotels in cities in both developed and developing countries this article unpacks the changing geography of hotels in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg for the period 1990 to 2010. Johannesburg is one of the leading and growing destinations for urban tourism in South Africa. Its hotel scape has been radically transformed in the past two decades. It is shown that the shifting geography of hotel development in Johannesburg reveals a complex pattern of disinvestment in certain city spaces and subsequent reinvestment and re-vitalization of those spaces as well the changing patterns of hotel investment towards the new successful nodes of business and leisure tourism in the city.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-196
Number of pages16
JournalBulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
Volume25
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2014

Keywords

  • Johannesburg
  • South Africa
  • Urban tourism
  • hotel location

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Demography
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Cultural Studies
  • Urban Studies

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