Die invloed van plattelandse toerisme op die ontwikkeling en struktuur van Sutherland
Date
2009-03
Authors
Du Plessis, Jacobus Johannes
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Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
Abstract
This study combines qualitative and quantitative techniques in an inquiry into the
influence of rural tourism on the development and structure of Sutherland from 2001
till 2005. Sutherland, like most small rural towns in the Central and Western Karoo,
is/was in the process of decline. Rural tourism is seen as a solution to curb the process
of decline. The study investigates this assumption by analyzing the positive and
negative impacts of tourism on the economic, social and environmental spheres of
Sutherland and looks at concomitant structural changes. Special emphasis is placed on
the changing nature of Sutherland’s reason for existence and the dualistic processes of
degradation on the one side and tourism development on the other. These complex
time-spatial and site-specific trends are analyzed and recommendations are made for
the management of the tourism industry of Sutherland.
Description
Thesis (MA (Geography and Environmental Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
Keywords
Rural tourism -- South Africa -- Sutherland, Rural decline -- South Africa -- Sutherland, Tourism -- Influence on development -- -- South Africa -- Sutherland, Dissertations -- Geography and environmental studies, Theses -- Geography and environmental studies