Sustainable Tourism Research in South Africa: In Search of a Place for Work and the Workplace

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Abstract

An analysis is undertaken of existing literature on sustainable tourism in South Africa in order to isolate the relative importance of research concerning tourism and work. It is argued that since 2000 sustainable tourism scholarship has clustered around eight knowledge domains. Most sustainable tourism scholarship concentrates around the themes of responsible tourism, pro-poor tourism, local economic development and small enterprise development. Other rising issues are tourism infrastructure, the uneven space economy of tourism and climate change impacts. In common with international trends in South Africa only limited forays have been undertaken so far into tourism work and the workplace which is disclosed as the most weakly established knowledge domain in extant local scholarship.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGeographies of Tourism and Global Change
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages45-59
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameGeographies of Tourism and Global Change
ISSN (Print)2366-5610
ISSN (Electronic)2366-5629

Keywords

  • Academic journals
  • Employment issues
  • South Africa
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Tourism work

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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