“…In the case of South Africa Nel and Rogerson (2016) show that tourism is the most widely targeted sector across all the country's local governments for driving local economic development futures. Tourism promotion is especially significant as a local economic development intervention for many South African small towns (Donaldson and Marais, 2012;Houghton et al, 2013;McEwan, 2013;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2014; Van der Merwe, 2014; Rogerson and Harmer, 2015;Rogerson, 2016, 2017;Donaldson, 2018;Kontsiwe and Visser, 2019;Lawrence and Rogerson, 2019;Rogerson, 2019;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2019a).…”