“…Briedenhann, along with others follows a common theme of rural tourism being adopted as a vehicle for the regeneration of rural areas suffering economic decline or deprivation (Beeton, 1998;Briedenhann, 2007;Briedenhann and Wickens, 2004;Fleischer and Felsenstein, 2000;Roberts and Hall, 2001;Sharpley and Roberts, 2004;Shaw and Williams, 2002). This concept of rural tourism's potential as a development tool is common, but so too is discussion about constraints affecting rural and peripheral area tourism development (see Briedenhann and Wickens, 2004;Bryden and Bollman, 2000;Buhalis, 2000;Gannon, 1994;Greffe, 1994;Nash and Martin, 2003;Prideaux, 2002;Powell, 1995).…”