A Decade of Small Town Tourism Research in South Africa

Donaldson, Ronnie

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“…Afrikaans arts festivals, in particular, were established to help preserve the Afrikaans language and culture (Kitshoff, 2005; Hauptfleisch, 2006). Woordfees, as in the case of other festivals, has also become a significant tool in tourism development in many small towns (Donaldson, 2018), but the most notable, it aims to provide valuable exposure to the Afrikaans literary arts in its various forms. The festival was held for the 19th time in the University town of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape over nine days in 2018.…”

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Festival loyalty to a South African literary arts festival: action speaks louder than words!

Kruger

2019

IJEFM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in the literature by focusing on the profile and loyalty of visitors to a literary arts festival in South Africa. In addition, this research advocates that festivals can influence visitors’ supplementary behavioural intentions and actions beyond loyalty in the form of literary arts appreciation, purchases and tourism. Design/methodology/approach A visitor survey was conducted at one of the oldest literary arts festivals in the country where a total of 391 completed self-administered questionnaires were obtained. The statistical analyses comprised three factor analyses (motives to attend the festival, satisfaction with the festival offering elements and behavioural intentions) as well as structural equation modelling, to establish the relationship between the motives, evaluation of the “festivalscapes”, behavioural intentions and loyalty. Findings The findings confirmed that literary arts festival loyalty is the principle behavioural intention that will occur after attending a literary arts festival. However, the results demonstrated that literary arts festivals also have the potential to increase and stimulate supplementary behavioural intentions in the form of greater awareness of the arts, increased purchasing behaviour of literary works, increased travel to support the literary arts and greater personal involvement. Practical implications Festivals, irrespective of the art form that they showcase, therefore, play a significant role in encouraging and increasing purchasing behaviour, which is vital to the viability and continuation of the arts industry. Originality/value This is one of the first studies to research the literary arts festival market in South Africa, thereby making a distinct contribution by expanding the literature on the needs of this neglected market and the aspects that influence loyalty to these types of festivals.

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Festival loyalty to a South African literary arts festival: action speaks louder than words!

Kruger

2019

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“…Studies have found that the increased local presence of new social groups can lead to nostalgia or a sense of alienation among long-time residents (May 1996;Gustafson 2014 cited in Lynnebakke 2018), p. 13. Donaldson (2018) refers to rural gentrification as more subtle processes, which impose changes on local populations without physically displacing them. But according to Nelson et al (2019) little attention has been given to the 'temporal signatures' left by gentrification and how this transforms the ways people use and experience space.…”

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Local Ambivalence to Diverse Mobilities – The Case of a Norwegian Rural Village

Villa

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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In Norway, immigration and tourism have become important drivers of diversity in rural communities. While rural migration mostly has been studied from the migrants’ perspective, this article examines how long‐term residents in a Norwegian rural mountain resort characterised by seasonal tourism and labour immigration experience the flux of diverse migrants and how this affects them and the local community. The article is based on 12 interviews with men and women who are long‐term community residents. A major narrative of the locals is that of the village and its inhabitants as accustomed to mobility, a local knowledge acquired through decades of tourism and in‐migration. But there are also narratives of ambivalence and contradictions and of the place as saturated by mobilities. The article explores how locals adjust to and avoid these mobilities.

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“…With much optimism attached by national government to tourism's importance as a driver for renewing growth of the flagging South African economy it is unsurprising that the promotion of tourism is currently the most widespread focus for local economic development planning (Nel and Rogerson, 2016b). In particular, tourism development is seen as of special significance in many South African small towns (Donaldson, 2007;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2014;Donaldson, 2018;Kontsiwe and Visser, 2019;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2019a).…”

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Using Municipal Tourism Assets for Leveraging Local Economic Development in South Africa

Rogerson

2020

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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AbstractTourism development can be a vital component of place-based development initiatives in the global South. The nexus of tourism and place-based development thinking in the global South and of the role of local governments is only beginning to be investigated by tourism scholars. This article explores the record of using tourism assets in one South African local municipality for leveraging local economic development. Evidence is drawn from the experience of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. The research results point to an unimpressive record on the part of local government in directing the use of local assets for assisting tourism development. Several challenges are revealed to explain the underperformance of potentially valuable local assets in this municipality. Institutional and governance shortcomings, including widespread corruption, underpin the observed weaknesses both in the everyday workings of local government in relation to service delivery and infrastructure support as well as its inability to implement plans for local economic development. Well-meaning policies proposed for tourism development are not implemented variously for reasons of funding, lack of local support, lack of entrepreneurialism by the municipality and lack of ability to implement because of capacity issues. Potential state assets which could bolster tourism and local development outcomes are not being realized and in many cases the assets themselves are in a state of deterioration because of neglect.

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A Decade of Small Town Tourism Research in South Africa

Cited by 5 publications

References 101 publications

Festival loyalty to a South African literary arts festival: action speaks louder than words!

Festival loyalty to a South African literary arts festival: action speaks louder than words!

Local Ambivalence to Diverse Mobilities – The Case of a Norwegian Rural Village

Using Municipal Tourism Assets for Leveraging Local Economic Development in South Africa

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