Abstract
One of the central challenges of a maturing tourism destination is to ensure continuous innovation and improvement of tourism products to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive global tourism economy The purpose of this study is to analyse a critical aspect of the improvement of tourism product competitiveness in South Africa, the changing tourism accommodation sector and specifically of the hotel industry. During the study period 1990-2010 it is shown that the hotel industry was restructured in terms of enhanced quality standards, the introduction of new hotel products and driven by the imperatives of market segmentation. Geographically, the hotel sector became more concentrated upon four key urban tourism nodes and in certain cities the over-production of hotel accommodation is an emerging problem.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 59-68 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Applied Geography |
Volume | 36 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2013 |
Keywords
- Hotels
- Market segmentation
- Over-production
- Restructuring
- Spatial change
- Tourism accommodation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Forestry
- Geography, Planning and Development
- General Environmental Science
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management