Overview
- Introduces new perspectives on urban tourism drawn from the perspective of the Global South
- Examines distinctive niches in the evolution of the city tourism product of Southern destinations
- Highlights important policy challenges for planning urban tourism and maximising its potential for inclusive settlements
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL)
Part of the book sub series: Urban Perspectives from the Global South (URPGS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Major tourism destination
- Urban tourism in the global South
- Geography of urban tourism
- Rethinking slum tourism
- Small enterprise development
- Off the beaten track city tourism
- Accessible tourism
- Evolution of urban tourism
- Contemporary South Africa
- Capital city tourism
- Facilities for the disabled
- Township tourism
- Small town tourism
- Music festivals
- Urban festivals
- The German bierfest
- Hotel industry under apartheid
- Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism
- Urban hotels
- Tourism and COVID-19
About this book
This book examines and addresses the particular character of urban tourism occurring in the global South. It presents research essays on tourism in urban areas of South Africa, a country which is associated with big 5 nature tourism but where urban areas are also major tourism destinations. The book contextualizes urban tourism in South Africa as part of ‘the other half of urban tourism’, an overlooked but energetic scholarship which is emerging on urban places in the global South. The volume moves to present a collection of original material variously on national perspectives on urban tourism following by a cluster of city level perspectives. The last three contributions turn to the role of tourism in small towns, the bottom rung in the urban settlement system. Issues of concern include gastronomic tourism, VFR travel, airportscapes, climate change, AirBnb and creative tourism. Finally, as COVID-19 is potentially a defining historical moment for urban tourism, the volume incorporates historical research perspectives in order to address the overwhelming ‘present-mindedness’ of mainstream urban tourism writings. The book highlights the challenges and opportunities for tourism development in the environment of the urban global South and is relevant to scholars of both tourism and urban studies as well as researchers in development studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christian M. Rogerson is Research Professor at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, College of Business & Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. For nearly 20 years he has been involved in research concerning the tourism-development nexus in sub-Saharan Africa, including local economic development, small enterprise development, poverty studies, historical research and with a particular interest in urban tourism. He has over 200 publications on tourism among others papers in Tourism Geographies, Tourism Management, International Journal of Tourism Research and Tourism Review. Edited books have included Tourism and Development in South Africa, Urban Tourism in the Developing World: The Southern Africa Experience, and The Geography of South Africa.
Jayne M. Rogerson is Associate Professor at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, College of Business & Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an urban geographer by training with a specific research interest in the hotel industry and tourism in cities. She has published over 70 articles including papers in Urban Studies, Applied Geography, Urban Forum and Development Southern Africa. Currently, she is completing an edited book for Springer on New Directions in the Tourism Geography of South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Tourism in the Global South
Book Subtitle: South African Perspectives
Editors: Christian M. Rogerson, Jayne M. Rogerson
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71547-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71546-5Published: 14 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71549-6Published: 15 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71547-2Published: 13 July 2021
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 266
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Tourism Management