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Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries …. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost … international tourism. From the perspective of an African nation the most important question is whether the benefit of aviation …
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Hosting a major international sporting event is a costly affair for the organizing country. Growth in tourism is often … country-by-country arrival data to assess the impact of organizing the FIFA 2010 World Cup on tourism in South Africa. We find …
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, could damage the tourism appeal of many South African catchments. However, no South African studies have tried to quantify … community of Rhodes, and can therefore provide the impetus for the creation of a tourism-based local economic development …
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. Strategic interventions often draw on tourism development to attain LED objectives. This investigation contends that second home … development can serve as an additional focus for tourism strategies aimed at LED, and demonstrates that important LED objectives …
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South Africa in the post-1994 era has experienced phenomenal growth in foreign tourism. The Tourism White Paper (1996 …) had noted that South Africa missed its tourism opportunity because of the country’s troubled past. The rapid economic … growth experienced by the BRICS countries has changed the face of international tourism. The tourism destinations have moved …
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The development of standards and certification programs in global tourism has gained importance in consumption …-production nexus. The paper is dealing with “Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa†(FTTSA), one of the first innovative service … evolutionary trajectories of sustainable tourism standards from a knowledge-based perspective. This paper will contribute to a …
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on South Africa’s traditional tourism markets butattracted a large increase from non-traditional ones. However, the … tournament. We use a new longrun dataset of tourism flows to South Africa and a gravity model fortourism flows and run …
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The mass of investments into infrastructure for tourism in the so-called “New States” (Neue Länder) of the Federal … effects of local public investment into infrastructure for tourism supported by investment grants on the local employment in …
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partnership undertook initiatives to stimulate the regional economy by creating a tourism infrastructure. This paper presents a …. In 2004, the regional partnership also applied for the pilot measure to implement the EU Initiative Leader+. The tourism …
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Ferri J. (2004) Evaluating the regional impact of a new road on tourism, Reg. Studies 38, 409-418. The aim of this work … contributed to expanding hotel tourism in the Valencia region. Some of the most important tourist destinations in Spain, both … that the impact on tourism of the motorway has been varied and depends on three factors: (1) the origin of the tourism; (2 …
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