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Low Density Tourism in the Global South: Second Home Tourism in South Africa as a Form of Visiting Friends and Relatives

Low Density Tourism in the Global South: Second Home Tourism in South Africa as a Form of Visiting Friends and Relatives

Unathi Sonwabile Henama, Lwazi Apleni, Jankie Kgalabi Phale
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781668445488|ISBN10: 1668445484|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668445495|EISBN13: 9781668445501
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4548-8.ch015
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Henama, Unathi Sonwabile, et al. "Low Density Tourism in the Global South: Second Home Tourism in South Africa as a Form of Visiting Friends and Relatives." Analyzing Sustainability in Peripheral, Ultra-Peripheral, and Low-Density Regions, edited by Rui Alexandre Castanho, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 261-275. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4548-8.ch015

APA

Henama, U. S., Apleni, L., & Phale, J. K. (2022). Low Density Tourism in the Global South: Second Home Tourism in South Africa as a Form of Visiting Friends and Relatives. In R. Castanho (Ed.), Analyzing Sustainability in Peripheral, Ultra-Peripheral, and Low-Density Regions (pp. 261-275). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4548-8.ch015

Chicago

Henama, Unathi Sonwabile, Lwazi Apleni, and Jankie Kgalabi Phale. "Low Density Tourism in the Global South: Second Home Tourism in South Africa as a Form of Visiting Friends and Relatives." In Analyzing Sustainability in Peripheral, Ultra-Peripheral, and Low-Density Regions, edited by Rui Alexandre Castanho, 261-275. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4548-8.ch015

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Abstract

Tourism has grown since the first democratic elections in 1994 in South Africa, which led to the election of Nelson Mandela as President. The high levels of concentration of tourism in major urban centres has limited the developmental potential of tourism. The first type of second home tourism is located in high amenity areas and is dominated by the upper- and middle-class South Africans. The high amenity nature of these localities has led to the emergence of a strong leisure and business component alongside second home tourism. The second home tourism market in South Africa is dominated by working-class South Africans who work in urban centres and have homes in former apartheid-created homelands, where family and extended family reside on ancestral land. These working-class travellers dominate domestic tourism trips and the visiting friends and relatives market in South Africa.

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