This document discusses cultural tourism in South Africa. It provides an overview of cultural tourism trends globally and in South Africa. While cultural tourism makes up a large portion of tourism worldwide, it remains underdeveloped in South Africa. The document analyzes cultural tourist motivation and consumption behaviors. It then estimates the size and characteristics of the cultural tourism market in South Africa from Europe and the US based on an analysis of tourism data and reports.
Contribution of the hospitality and tourism sector to theAlexander Decker
This document discusses the contribution of the hospitality and tourism sector to local community development in the Hohoe Municipality of Ghana. It finds that the municipality received GH¢122,877.90 in tourism revenue in 2008, with an average annual growth rate of 162.2%, but revenue fell to GH¢18,122.5 in 2011 due to lack of marketing and institutional issues. The document recommends capacity building for local communities, improved tourism marketing and promotion, greater private sector participation, and diverse tourism products to strengthen the sector's contributions to development.
An analysis of coffee stains militating sustainable tourism development in af...Alexander Decker
This document analyzes factors hindering sustainable tourism development in Africa. While Africa has many natural and artificial tourist attractions, tourism traffic to the region is low. The study found this is due to an unfavorable tourism environment in Africa characterized by political instability, negative perceptions, poor access, and diseases. These issues have depressed tourism activity. To realize Africa's potential, the study recommends implementing a universal visa regime, revising tourism pricing, enhancing air access, and financially supporting national tourism bodies.
The document discusses tourism in Nepal. It provides an overview of the tourism industry in Nepal, including key facts about tourist arrivals and the types of businesses. It then discusses Nepal's "Visit Nepal 2011" campaign which aims to double tourist arrivals. The document also summarizes the impact of the global economic crisis on Nepal's tourism industry and provides a SWOT analysis, Porter's Five Forces analysis, PEST analysis and value chain analysis of the tourism sector in Nepal.
The document discusses the economic contribution of tourism in Nigeria. It outlines that tourism is a powerful driver of economic development but Nigeria's tourism sector is operating below capacity. Some key strengths are Nigeria's natural attractions and cultural festivals. However, weaknesses include a lack of reliable tourism statistics and low awareness of Nigeria as a tourist destination. Opportunities exist to leverage cultural resources and growing demand from Africa and Asia. Threats include medical tourism which takes money out of Nigeria's economy and more developed tourism industries in other African countries. The document recommends increasing investment in tourism infrastructure and embarking on marketing campaigns to promote Nigeria's tourism.
This document discusses the career prospects for tourism students in Nigeria. It begins by providing background on the growth of international tourism globally and the need for well-trained tourism professionals. It then examines the various tourism programs and courses offered at Nigerian universities. While few universities offer tourism degrees, many programs have not received full accreditation. However, the tourism industry in Nigeria cuts across many sectors like hospitality, transportation, and travel agencies, creating opportunities for graduates. The career prospects for tourism graduates are described as very bright. The document aims to help students understand the career paths available to them in this growing industry.
#MP2013 Presentation by the Minister of Tourism, Culture & National OrientationFMINigeria
The document summarizes the mid-term achievements of the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation of Nigeria from 2011-2013. It outlines the ministry's vision, mission, mandate and departments. It then describes some key projects and programs in the tourism and culture sectors, including the development of tourism destinations and cultural industries, youth tourism programs, and the annual Abuja National Carnival. It also provides statistics on tourism arrivals and estimated revenue generated.
The document discusses supply and demand in tourism. It defines demand and supply, and describes the relationships between price, quantity demanded, and quantity supplied. The four basic laws of supply and demand are outlined. Equilibrium price is defined as the price where supply equals demand. Tourism demand is shaped by factors like income, prices of related goods, and marketing. Tourism supply relies on resources, infrastructure, and services. Supply and demand interactions help determine tourism patterns.
Contribution of the hospitality and tourism sector to theAlexander Decker
This document discusses the contribution of the hospitality and tourism sector to local community development in the Hohoe Municipality of Ghana. It finds that the municipality received GH¢122,877.90 in tourism revenue in 2008, with an average annual growth rate of 162.2%, but revenue fell to GH¢18,122.5 in 2011 due to lack of marketing and institutional issues. The document recommends capacity building for local communities, improved tourism marketing and promotion, greater private sector participation, and diverse tourism products to strengthen the sector's contributions to development.
An analysis of coffee stains militating sustainable tourism development in af...Alexander Decker
This document analyzes factors hindering sustainable tourism development in Africa. While Africa has many natural and artificial tourist attractions, tourism traffic to the region is low. The study found this is due to an unfavorable tourism environment in Africa characterized by political instability, negative perceptions, poor access, and diseases. These issues have depressed tourism activity. To realize Africa's potential, the study recommends implementing a universal visa regime, revising tourism pricing, enhancing air access, and financially supporting national tourism bodies.
The document discusses tourism in Nepal. It provides an overview of the tourism industry in Nepal, including key facts about tourist arrivals and the types of businesses. It then discusses Nepal's "Visit Nepal 2011" campaign which aims to double tourist arrivals. The document also summarizes the impact of the global economic crisis on Nepal's tourism industry and provides a SWOT analysis, Porter's Five Forces analysis, PEST analysis and value chain analysis of the tourism sector in Nepal.
The document discusses the economic contribution of tourism in Nigeria. It outlines that tourism is a powerful driver of economic development but Nigeria's tourism sector is operating below capacity. Some key strengths are Nigeria's natural attractions and cultural festivals. However, weaknesses include a lack of reliable tourism statistics and low awareness of Nigeria as a tourist destination. Opportunities exist to leverage cultural resources and growing demand from Africa and Asia. Threats include medical tourism which takes money out of Nigeria's economy and more developed tourism industries in other African countries. The document recommends increasing investment in tourism infrastructure and embarking on marketing campaigns to promote Nigeria's tourism.
This document discusses the career prospects for tourism students in Nigeria. It begins by providing background on the growth of international tourism globally and the need for well-trained tourism professionals. It then examines the various tourism programs and courses offered at Nigerian universities. While few universities offer tourism degrees, many programs have not received full accreditation. However, the tourism industry in Nigeria cuts across many sectors like hospitality, transportation, and travel agencies, creating opportunities for graduates. The career prospects for tourism graduates are described as very bright. The document aims to help students understand the career paths available to them in this growing industry.
#MP2013 Presentation by the Minister of Tourism, Culture & National OrientationFMINigeria
The document summarizes the mid-term achievements of the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation of Nigeria from 2011-2013. It outlines the ministry's vision, mission, mandate and departments. It then describes some key projects and programs in the tourism and culture sectors, including the development of tourism destinations and cultural industries, youth tourism programs, and the annual Abuja National Carnival. It also provides statistics on tourism arrivals and estimated revenue generated.
The document discusses supply and demand in tourism. It defines demand and supply, and describes the relationships between price, quantity demanded, and quantity supplied. The four basic laws of supply and demand are outlined. Equilibrium price is defined as the price where supply equals demand. Tourism demand is shaped by factors like income, prices of related goods, and marketing. Tourism supply relies on resources, infrastructure, and services. Supply and demand interactions help determine tourism patterns.
This document discusses tourism demand and supply. It defines tourism demand and identifies three main types: actual, suppressed, and latent demand. Tourism demand is shaped by factors that motivate people to travel, such as leisure, visiting friends/relatives, business, health, religion, and personal motives. Tourism demand in South Africa and the Limpopo province has grown substantially in recent years, outpacing global tourism growth. This increased demand has created pressure to expand tourism accommodation and offerings to continue meeting the needs of visitors.
This document provides a summary of a tourism sector analysis conducted for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It describes the objectives of analyzing KP's tourism sector and four tourist locations. The scope of work included conducting surveys and assessments of tourism attractions, SWOT analyses, stakeholder consultations, and developing plans for sustainable tourism development. Key findings were that domestic tourism is growing but the sector faces challenges like inadequate infrastructure, seasonal businesses, and environmental degradation. The report provides recommendations and area-specific development plans to promote sustainable tourism in KP.
Tourism industry-study of demand and supply factorsNanditaAgrawal4
This document discusses demand and supply in the tourism industry. It notes that tourism demand is the total number of people traveling away from home, and in 2016 tourism generated $7.6 trillion or 10% of global GDP and employed 292 million people. Factors like economic conditions, geopolitics, technology, culture, natural disasters, and epidemics can affect tourism demand. Tourism supply is the value of tourism products sold to tourists including accommodations, food, transport, and retail. Supply is affected by factors like industry booms or turbulence, government policies, globalization, competition, alternative economic activities, economies of scale, and increasing numbers of firms.
Tourism is an important industry for Nepal's economy. It generates foreign currency income, creates employment opportunities, and promotes cultural exchange. Some of Nepal's main tourism products include mountain climbing, trekking, and visiting world heritage cultural sites. To further promote tourism, Nepal needs to improve infrastructure, launch new tourism products, increase international marketing and flights, and maintain its world heritage sites. If developed properly, tourism has strong potential to become Nepal's second largest revenue generator and a major source of employment.
This study compares tourism management in Bhutan and Peru by examining their approaches to tourism, current management practices, and level of host community involvement. The researcher conducted a literature review on tourism impacts and management strategies. They then used a guide to collect qualitative data on Bhutan and Peru from various tourism organization websites. The goal was to analyze the different approaches each country takes and how it impacts sustainability.
Nepal Tourism Board aims to establish Nepal as a premier holiday destination through effective branding and promotion. Their public relations and publicity department works to increase international visitors by generating media support, improving promotional materials, and developing trade partnerships. Their key objectives are to position Nepal for cultural, nature, and adventure tourism; increase length of stay and spending; and address seasonality issues. Strategies include collaborating with international media, diplomatic missions abroad, and Nepali communities to promote Nepal through familiarization tours, events, advertisements, and digital platforms.
This document discusses tourism demand, including definitions and important data for measuring demand. Tourism demand is defined as expenditures by visitors during and related to trips outside their usual environment. Key data for measuring demand includes number of visitors, transportation method, length of stay, accommodations, and money spent. Demand is determined by lifestyle factors like income and age as well as the supply environment. Volume statistics measure arrivals and departures while value statistics measure expenditures. Visitor profiles provide additional details. Demand is measured based on propensity to travel and resistance factors like costs and cultural differences at potential destinations.
The document provides an overview of the historic route in Ethiopia and its role in tourism development plans. It discusses:
1) The historic route covers northern Ethiopia and includes important historical and cultural sites that have been central to Ethiopian tourism.
2) Tourism development plans in Ethiopia have consistently focused on developing the historic route due to its wealth of resources and contribution to tourism receipts.
3) Key sites along the historic route that attract many visitors and have been priorities for development include Axum, Gondar, Lalibela, and the walled city of Harar.
Nepalese tourism is an emerging and important industry for national development. Historically, Nepal attracted visitors for political, religious, cultural, and natural reasons. Currently, tourism contributes significantly to Nepal's economy, generating 4.3% of GDP and over 500,000 jobs. However, Nepal faces weaknesses like a lack of comprehensive planning and skilled labor. The recent earthquakes also damaged infrastructure and threatened the industry. Moving forward, Nepal must strengthen governance, develop infrastructure and connectivity, empower youth, and promote sustainable and emerging forms of tourism.
Chapter 1 Tourism Plan and Strategy (Tourism Planning and Development)Md Shaifullar Rabbi
The document discusses tourism planning and strategy. It covers several key topics in 3 paragraphs or less:
Tourism planning aims to balance sustainable resource use, visitor satisfaction, community integration, and economic success. It is a continuous, comprehensive, and integrated process focusing on sustainable development and community involvement.
Tourism policy provides rules and guidelines for long-term tourism development and daily destination activities. It involves components like attractions, accommodations, facilities, transportation, infrastructure, and institutions.
Key players in tourism planning include tourists, the host community, the tourism industry, and government agencies at local, regional, national and international levels. Planning requires coordination between the public and private sectors.
Swot analysis for tourism industry by kandasamy anusanthanusanth kandasamy
SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a project. The document analyzes the SWOT of tourism in Sri Lanka. It identifies strengths such as diverse landscapes and culture, but weaknesses like inadequate infrastructure. Opportunities include new markets and products, while threats include high competition and environmental degradation from mass tourism. The document suggests developing infrastructure, products, and protecting cultural heritage to improve Sri Lankan tourism.
Chau Thanh District, Hau Giang Province, has diverse tourism resources. The local authority has
been orienting the tourism industry as an important economic sector. However, tourism-oriented products have
not been determined yet. The tourism resource exploitation is not commensurate with the potentials and
advantages of the district. This study focuses on assessing tourism resources and tourism development
potentials, thereby proposing solutions to exploit the tourism potentials of Chau Thanh District, Hau Giang
Province.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in tourism, including definitions of tourism, types and scope of tourism, tourism stakeholders, and elements of the tourism system. It also discusses profiling tourists and excursionists, types of tourists, motivations for travel based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and common motivators and de-motivators for travel.
Tourism and Partnership in Peru: Models for CollaborationDavid Vicent
Excellent UNWTO Publication about the different collaboration models in Peru between culture, Tourism and Comunity, Nice best practices in community based toursim and orange tourism
Determinants of Demand and Supply in TourismChinmoy Saikia
The document discusses the determinants of tourism demand and supply. It defines tourism demand as the total number of people who travel away from their place of work or residence. Tourism supply comprises the assets, services, and goods available to visitors, including infrastructure, attractions, and marketing. Tourism demand is influenced by individual factors like income and mobility, economic factors like cost and exchange rates, geographic factors like seasonality and accessibility, and political environments. Tourism supply depends on economic, political, geographical, legal, technological and social factors. It involves transportation, accommodations, attractions and other services that make up the tourism product chain.
The document discusses the history and definitions of sustainable tourism. It began being discussed in the early 1990s, defined as maintaining an equilibrium between ecological, economic, and social interests while conserving cultural and natural values. Major developments included the 1992 Earth Summit and contributions from organizations like WWF and the EU. Sustainable tourism is conceived as managing resources to satisfy social, economic and aesthetic needs while respecting cultural integrity and ecological processes. The document then discusses sustainable tourism in Spain and the EU, noting Spain's leadership in international tourism but also environmental issues caused by past disproportionate growth. Key themes for sustainable development include integrated coastal zone management and rationalizing tourist offerings.
A Case study of Mountain Tourism in Nepaljacksonthree
This document discusses mountain tourism in Nepal. It provides background information on tourism in Nepal, noting that $60 million in foreign currency is generated annually with 90% of tourists participating in trekking. Key questions cover what attracts tourists to Nepal, the economic, social, and environmental impacts of tourism, and what is being done to promote sustainable tourism. Key terms defined include sustainable, degradation, cultural, social, economic, environmental, impact, positive, negative.
Chapter 6 Tourism Planning for Sustainable Destinations and Sites (Tourism Pl...Md Shaifullar Rabbi
The document discusses sustainable tourism planning and development. It defines sustainable tourism as visiting destinations in a way that minimizes negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. It outlines the three dimensions of sustainable tourism as environmental, economic, and social. It also discusses principles of sustainable tourism development such as optimizing resource use, reducing overconsumption, maintaining biodiversity, and ensuring long-term economic benefits.
Ivanovic & Saayman, 2013. Telling or selling Experiencing South African cultu...Milena Ivanovic, PhD
This document discusses the shift from mass tourism to experience-based cultural heritage tourism in South Africa. It proposes a model where the tourist experience is a "gestalt phenomenon" that integrates the cultural heritage product, interpretation of the product, and the tourist's experience. The model posits that attractions cannot speak for themselves and storytelling is needed to create an experience and sell the cultural heritage product. The document analyzes South African tourism strategies and statistics to argue that South Africa was slow to shift to this experience-based model, contributing to the low experiential value of its cultural heritage products currently. It concludes that interpreting and co-creating experiences with tourists through storytelling is key to selling cultural heritage tourism.
Cultural and heritage tourism management; the value of cultural and heritage ...Witsathit Somrak
This research focuses on finding the value of local communities in Thailand and measuring the perception of local communities on the values of cultural heritage tourism and on the quality of life. The research scopes used in this study was to collect data from local people as a database, which was found by searching for local community values and creating a research tool to map the relationship between the values of cultural heritage tourism and activities relevant. This will be used to measure the perception of local communities in Thailand. The study found that most Thais recognise that the values of cultural heritage tourism has positive effects rather than negative effects, recognising that cultural heritage tourism has the most benefits economic impact, followed by culture, society and environment, respectively as well as the cultural heritage tourism has the most negative impact on the environment, followed by social, cultural and environmental issues.
The document provides an overview of the meaning, scope, definitions and measurement of travel and tourism. It discusses:
1) The historical development of tourism and how definitions have evolved over time with the growth of the industry.
2) Key definitions established by the UN and other bodies, including defining tourists as visitors staying at least 24 hours in the country visited, and excursionists as those staying less than 24 hours.
3) The dimensions typically used to define and measure travel, including purpose of trip, distance travelled, duration of trip, residence of traveler, and mode of transportation. Comparable data is needed using consistent definitions in order to accurately assess the economic impacts of tourism.
Sustainable Tourism and Culture: A Symbiotic RelationshipIEREK Press
Cultural Tourism offers a strong motivation to preserve the elements of cultural heritage in tourist destinations. It helps to preserve cultural elements as important tourist attractions. Cultural tourism’s notion is unlimited to visiting monumental attractions only, but it has also become an interactive experience with the social fabric of the community through attending exhibitions, festivals and events,and the purchase of traditional local products. Thus, the human capital factor in tourism is linked to the quality of tourism products. With the growth of international tourism, the importance of sustainable tourism development has emerged to protect natural, cultural, and human resources, in addition to achieving economic development. As non-sustainable tourism development has led to the deterioration of tourism resources. This research paper examines if cultural tourism contributes to decrease tourism seasonality and achieve sustainable tourism development in cultural heritage sites. A case study of Aswan was selected. Aswan has unique and important elements of cultural heritage (Tangible and Intangible), but it still faces many problems like tourism seasonality, besides its tourism is still weak compared with other cities that have the same tourism potential. Based on a literature review and analytical study of global examples that achieved sustainability in cultural heritage sites, a field study of Aswan was conducted to evaluate the current status of cultural tourism, besides illustrating the challenges of achieving sustainability. The major result that has emerged from the study is paying attention to cultural tourism is the possible solution to the challenges that Aswan tourism faces. Finally, the paper concluded that investment in human capital creates opportunities for cultural tourism which in return resolves one of tourism’s major challenges: seasonality.
This document discusses tourism demand and supply. It defines tourism demand and identifies three main types: actual, suppressed, and latent demand. Tourism demand is shaped by factors that motivate people to travel, such as leisure, visiting friends/relatives, business, health, religion, and personal motives. Tourism demand in South Africa and the Limpopo province has grown substantially in recent years, outpacing global tourism growth. This increased demand has created pressure to expand tourism accommodation and offerings to continue meeting the needs of visitors.
This document provides a summary of a tourism sector analysis conducted for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It describes the objectives of analyzing KP's tourism sector and four tourist locations. The scope of work included conducting surveys and assessments of tourism attractions, SWOT analyses, stakeholder consultations, and developing plans for sustainable tourism development. Key findings were that domestic tourism is growing but the sector faces challenges like inadequate infrastructure, seasonal businesses, and environmental degradation. The report provides recommendations and area-specific development plans to promote sustainable tourism in KP.
Tourism industry-study of demand and supply factorsNanditaAgrawal4
This document discusses demand and supply in the tourism industry. It notes that tourism demand is the total number of people traveling away from home, and in 2016 tourism generated $7.6 trillion or 10% of global GDP and employed 292 million people. Factors like economic conditions, geopolitics, technology, culture, natural disasters, and epidemics can affect tourism demand. Tourism supply is the value of tourism products sold to tourists including accommodations, food, transport, and retail. Supply is affected by factors like industry booms or turbulence, government policies, globalization, competition, alternative economic activities, economies of scale, and increasing numbers of firms.
Tourism is an important industry for Nepal's economy. It generates foreign currency income, creates employment opportunities, and promotes cultural exchange. Some of Nepal's main tourism products include mountain climbing, trekking, and visiting world heritage cultural sites. To further promote tourism, Nepal needs to improve infrastructure, launch new tourism products, increase international marketing and flights, and maintain its world heritage sites. If developed properly, tourism has strong potential to become Nepal's second largest revenue generator and a major source of employment.
This study compares tourism management in Bhutan and Peru by examining their approaches to tourism, current management practices, and level of host community involvement. The researcher conducted a literature review on tourism impacts and management strategies. They then used a guide to collect qualitative data on Bhutan and Peru from various tourism organization websites. The goal was to analyze the different approaches each country takes and how it impacts sustainability.
Nepal Tourism Board aims to establish Nepal as a premier holiday destination through effective branding and promotion. Their public relations and publicity department works to increase international visitors by generating media support, improving promotional materials, and developing trade partnerships. Their key objectives are to position Nepal for cultural, nature, and adventure tourism; increase length of stay and spending; and address seasonality issues. Strategies include collaborating with international media, diplomatic missions abroad, and Nepali communities to promote Nepal through familiarization tours, events, advertisements, and digital platforms.
This document discusses tourism demand, including definitions and important data for measuring demand. Tourism demand is defined as expenditures by visitors during and related to trips outside their usual environment. Key data for measuring demand includes number of visitors, transportation method, length of stay, accommodations, and money spent. Demand is determined by lifestyle factors like income and age as well as the supply environment. Volume statistics measure arrivals and departures while value statistics measure expenditures. Visitor profiles provide additional details. Demand is measured based on propensity to travel and resistance factors like costs and cultural differences at potential destinations.
The document provides an overview of the historic route in Ethiopia and its role in tourism development plans. It discusses:
1) The historic route covers northern Ethiopia and includes important historical and cultural sites that have been central to Ethiopian tourism.
2) Tourism development plans in Ethiopia have consistently focused on developing the historic route due to its wealth of resources and contribution to tourism receipts.
3) Key sites along the historic route that attract many visitors and have been priorities for development include Axum, Gondar, Lalibela, and the walled city of Harar.
Nepalese tourism is an emerging and important industry for national development. Historically, Nepal attracted visitors for political, religious, cultural, and natural reasons. Currently, tourism contributes significantly to Nepal's economy, generating 4.3% of GDP and over 500,000 jobs. However, Nepal faces weaknesses like a lack of comprehensive planning and skilled labor. The recent earthquakes also damaged infrastructure and threatened the industry. Moving forward, Nepal must strengthen governance, develop infrastructure and connectivity, empower youth, and promote sustainable and emerging forms of tourism.
Chapter 1 Tourism Plan and Strategy (Tourism Planning and Development)Md Shaifullar Rabbi
The document discusses tourism planning and strategy. It covers several key topics in 3 paragraphs or less:
Tourism planning aims to balance sustainable resource use, visitor satisfaction, community integration, and economic success. It is a continuous, comprehensive, and integrated process focusing on sustainable development and community involvement.
Tourism policy provides rules and guidelines for long-term tourism development and daily destination activities. It involves components like attractions, accommodations, facilities, transportation, infrastructure, and institutions.
Key players in tourism planning include tourists, the host community, the tourism industry, and government agencies at local, regional, national and international levels. Planning requires coordination between the public and private sectors.
Swot analysis for tourism industry by kandasamy anusanthanusanth kandasamy
SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a project. The document analyzes the SWOT of tourism in Sri Lanka. It identifies strengths such as diverse landscapes and culture, but weaknesses like inadequate infrastructure. Opportunities include new markets and products, while threats include high competition and environmental degradation from mass tourism. The document suggests developing infrastructure, products, and protecting cultural heritage to improve Sri Lankan tourism.
Chau Thanh District, Hau Giang Province, has diverse tourism resources. The local authority has
been orienting the tourism industry as an important economic sector. However, tourism-oriented products have
not been determined yet. The tourism resource exploitation is not commensurate with the potentials and
advantages of the district. This study focuses on assessing tourism resources and tourism development
potentials, thereby proposing solutions to exploit the tourism potentials of Chau Thanh District, Hau Giang
Province.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in tourism, including definitions of tourism, types and scope of tourism, tourism stakeholders, and elements of the tourism system. It also discusses profiling tourists and excursionists, types of tourists, motivations for travel based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and common motivators and de-motivators for travel.
Tourism and Partnership in Peru: Models for CollaborationDavid Vicent
Excellent UNWTO Publication about the different collaboration models in Peru between culture, Tourism and Comunity, Nice best practices in community based toursim and orange tourism
Determinants of Demand and Supply in TourismChinmoy Saikia
The document discusses the determinants of tourism demand and supply. It defines tourism demand as the total number of people who travel away from their place of work or residence. Tourism supply comprises the assets, services, and goods available to visitors, including infrastructure, attractions, and marketing. Tourism demand is influenced by individual factors like income and mobility, economic factors like cost and exchange rates, geographic factors like seasonality and accessibility, and political environments. Tourism supply depends on economic, political, geographical, legal, technological and social factors. It involves transportation, accommodations, attractions and other services that make up the tourism product chain.
The document discusses the history and definitions of sustainable tourism. It began being discussed in the early 1990s, defined as maintaining an equilibrium between ecological, economic, and social interests while conserving cultural and natural values. Major developments included the 1992 Earth Summit and contributions from organizations like WWF and the EU. Sustainable tourism is conceived as managing resources to satisfy social, economic and aesthetic needs while respecting cultural integrity and ecological processes. The document then discusses sustainable tourism in Spain and the EU, noting Spain's leadership in international tourism but also environmental issues caused by past disproportionate growth. Key themes for sustainable development include integrated coastal zone management and rationalizing tourist offerings.
A Case study of Mountain Tourism in Nepaljacksonthree
This document discusses mountain tourism in Nepal. It provides background information on tourism in Nepal, noting that $60 million in foreign currency is generated annually with 90% of tourists participating in trekking. Key questions cover what attracts tourists to Nepal, the economic, social, and environmental impacts of tourism, and what is being done to promote sustainable tourism. Key terms defined include sustainable, degradation, cultural, social, economic, environmental, impact, positive, negative.
Chapter 6 Tourism Planning for Sustainable Destinations and Sites (Tourism Pl...Md Shaifullar Rabbi
The document discusses sustainable tourism planning and development. It defines sustainable tourism as visiting destinations in a way that minimizes negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. It outlines the three dimensions of sustainable tourism as environmental, economic, and social. It also discusses principles of sustainable tourism development such as optimizing resource use, reducing overconsumption, maintaining biodiversity, and ensuring long-term economic benefits.
Ivanovic & Saayman, 2013. Telling or selling Experiencing South African cultu...Milena Ivanovic, PhD
This document discusses the shift from mass tourism to experience-based cultural heritage tourism in South Africa. It proposes a model where the tourist experience is a "gestalt phenomenon" that integrates the cultural heritage product, interpretation of the product, and the tourist's experience. The model posits that attractions cannot speak for themselves and storytelling is needed to create an experience and sell the cultural heritage product. The document analyzes South African tourism strategies and statistics to argue that South Africa was slow to shift to this experience-based model, contributing to the low experiential value of its cultural heritage products currently. It concludes that interpreting and co-creating experiences with tourists through storytelling is key to selling cultural heritage tourism.
Cultural and heritage tourism management; the value of cultural and heritage ...Witsathit Somrak
This research focuses on finding the value of local communities in Thailand and measuring the perception of local communities on the values of cultural heritage tourism and on the quality of life. The research scopes used in this study was to collect data from local people as a database, which was found by searching for local community values and creating a research tool to map the relationship between the values of cultural heritage tourism and activities relevant. This will be used to measure the perception of local communities in Thailand. The study found that most Thais recognise that the values of cultural heritage tourism has positive effects rather than negative effects, recognising that cultural heritage tourism has the most benefits economic impact, followed by culture, society and environment, respectively as well as the cultural heritage tourism has the most negative impact on the environment, followed by social, cultural and environmental issues.
The document provides an overview of the meaning, scope, definitions and measurement of travel and tourism. It discusses:
1) The historical development of tourism and how definitions have evolved over time with the growth of the industry.
2) Key definitions established by the UN and other bodies, including defining tourists as visitors staying at least 24 hours in the country visited, and excursionists as those staying less than 24 hours.
3) The dimensions typically used to define and measure travel, including purpose of trip, distance travelled, duration of trip, residence of traveler, and mode of transportation. Comparable data is needed using consistent definitions in order to accurately assess the economic impacts of tourism.
Sustainable Tourism and Culture: A Symbiotic RelationshipIEREK Press
Cultural Tourism offers a strong motivation to preserve the elements of cultural heritage in tourist destinations. It helps to preserve cultural elements as important tourist attractions. Cultural tourism’s notion is unlimited to visiting monumental attractions only, but it has also become an interactive experience with the social fabric of the community through attending exhibitions, festivals and events,and the purchase of traditional local products. Thus, the human capital factor in tourism is linked to the quality of tourism products. With the growth of international tourism, the importance of sustainable tourism development has emerged to protect natural, cultural, and human resources, in addition to achieving economic development. As non-sustainable tourism development has led to the deterioration of tourism resources. This research paper examines if cultural tourism contributes to decrease tourism seasonality and achieve sustainable tourism development in cultural heritage sites. A case study of Aswan was selected. Aswan has unique and important elements of cultural heritage (Tangible and Intangible), but it still faces many problems like tourism seasonality, besides its tourism is still weak compared with other cities that have the same tourism potential. Based on a literature review and analytical study of global examples that achieved sustainability in cultural heritage sites, a field study of Aswan was conducted to evaluate the current status of cultural tourism, besides illustrating the challenges of achieving sustainability. The major result that has emerged from the study is paying attention to cultural tourism is the possible solution to the challenges that Aswan tourism faces. Finally, the paper concluded that investment in human capital creates opportunities for cultural tourism which in return resolves one of tourism’s major challenges: seasonality.
This document provides an introduction to exploring the potential of cultural sites for tourism development in Kakumiro District, Uganda. It defines key terms like culture, cultural tourism, and cultural sites. It then describes several important cultural sites in the district that could be developed for tourism, including Semwema Rock Caves, Munsa Earthworks, Kooki Haibale, and Kabagole Cultural Site. Each site is explained in terms of its historical and cultural significance to help assess their potential for promoting cultural tourism in the area.
By linking culture and tourism we come to the cultural tourism, the form of tourism with the growing interest in the world, as the number of tourists increases. These are travels motivated by cultural reasons. However, in order to talk about them, it is necessary to introduce or educate potential tourists with the possibilities of destinations, in terms of cultural content. On the other hand, in order to make this tourist-cultural experience possible, it is necessary to have adequate education of all those on the side of the offer and provision of services. Serbia has potentials for the development of cultural tourism, but in order to prevent it from remaining only at the level of potentials, education of all participants in this chain is needed. However, cultural tourism is not and should not be directed exclusively towards foreign tourists; the offer should be harmonized with the requirements of national, regional, international as well as global tourists.
A Study of the Factors Influencing Cultural Tourists’ Perception and Its Meas...laxmi2804
The major growth of the Indian tourism sector is contributed by domestic tourism
which tends to be more focused on cultural destinations. Travel and tourism for fun,
pleasure and recreation is still considered an elite ‘five star’ activity by a majority of
the Indians. At the same time, travel and tourism for cultural purposes forms an integral
part of the Indian population, where people from all ages, religions and income groups
often manage time and resources for cultural tourism. Tourism has a huge potential for
poverty alleviation by increasing job opportunities and spending by tourists. Most
important from India's point of view is the fact that these employment opportunities
are created in the small and medium segments of the economy and disperse throughout
the country. When people of a country visit such sites and experience their culture, they
understand ‘who they are and where they have come from’ (Palmer, 1999). Since viewing
of such sites by domestic tourists offers glimpses of a nation's past, their promotion
becomes vital in the construction of national identity (Johnson, 1995). The
measurement of perception of tourists and thereby identifying gaps in the current
service-good composition and customizing pro-tourist product mix, becomes crucially
important for all the stakeholders of the tourism industry. This paper primarily studies
those crucial factors which have a direct impact on the perception of tourists in the
heritage city of Agra.
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1. African Journal for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance (AJPHERD)
Supplement 2 (September) 2013, pp. 138-154.
South Africa calling cultural tourists
MILENA IVANOVIC1
AND MELVILLE SAAYMAN2
1
Department of Tourism Management, School of Tourism & Hospitality, University of
Johannesburg, South Africa. E-mail: mivanovic@uj.ac.za
2
TREES, University of North West, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Abstract
Although cultural tourism is the most prevalent type of tourism in the world it still remains
invisible in South Africa’s tourism landscape. Despite the country’s unique cultural heritage
resource base and the fact that cultural diversity is the core feature of South African marketing
strategy, absence of culture as a purpose for travel in the South African Tourism international
exit survey means that the size of cultural tourism market as well as behaviour characteristics of
cultural tourists are not known to both government and industry. For this reason the main tourism
stakeholders in the country are unable to make informed strategic and developmental decisions
which directly affect the performance of South African cultural heritage tourism products. This
paper contributes to South African cultural tourism discourse both theoretically and practically. It
presents a theoretical overview of the complex nature of cultural tourism demand, specifically
cultural motivation and omnivorousness of cultural consumption. These theoretical concepts are
applied on the data from South African annual tourism reports, and European and USA tourism
reports and research studies, in order to determine the size and behaviour characteristics of the
main international cultural tourism markets in South Africa.
Keywords: Cultural tourism, cultural tourists, cultural heritage, South Africa, European and
USA cultural markets.
How to cite this article:
Ivanovic, M. & Saayman, M. (2013). South Africa calling cultural tourists. African Journal for
Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance, September (Supplement 2), 138-154.
Introduction
Ample evidence exists in support of cultural tourism as the most prevalent type
of tourism in the world (van der Ark & Richards, 2006:1408). In the past decade,
cultural tourism increased by an estimated 15% annually (UNWTO, 2004)
accounting for 40% (OECD, 2009:21) of the total world arrivals in 2007. The
Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) comprehensive
research findings based on the 42.000 worldwide surveys collected from 1991-
2008, revealed that the proportion of visitors who indicated ‘cultural holiday’ as
the purpose of visit increased from 17% in 1997 to 37% in 2008 (ATLAS,
2009:98), which corroborate the OECD findings. This phenomenal growth of
cultural tourism is attributed to the rise of the experience economy (Pine &
Gilmore, 1999) which subsequently changed the nature of tourism demand from
escapism to enrichment (McCain & Ray, 2003:714). In the context of the
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experience economy the authenticity and uniqueness of cultural heritage
attractions became important guarantors of enriching and differentiated tourist
experiences (Pernecky & Jamal, 2010:1060; Waitt, 2000:838). Consequently, the
consumption of cultural heritage strongly emerged as the new area of tourism
demand (Richards, 1996) driving current phenomenal growth of cultural tourism
worldwide (Chen & Chen, 2010; Yale, 1991:21). The ATLAS comprehensive
findings also corroborate this trend with museums rated ‘the most important’
tourist attractions by 51% destinations’ visitors worldwide regardless of the
purpose for travel, followed by the historical sites 41%, and monuments 29%
(ATLAS, 2009:98). Not only that cultural heritage sector attracted new tourists
as part of new (cultural) tourism, but it serves as a differentiating factor of
destination’s image and competitiveness (Saayman & Du Plessis, 2003:58), and
the main theme in destination marketing.
While more than 50% of tourist activities in Europe are driven by cultural
heritage (Europa Nostra, 2006:15), cultural tourism in South Africa has been
invisible to both the South African government and tourism industry (NDT,
2010:5). Its potential remained under-realized (NDT, 2010:8) for almost two
decades. When the new National Culture and Heritage Tourism Strategy
(NCHTS) was revealed in December 2011 (NDT, 2011a) it was expected to
unlock the economic potential of cultural and heritage resources for both rural
and urban development. The main deployment approaches for the former are job
creation (Massyn & Koch, 2004) and poverty alleviation (Ndlovu & Rogerson,
2004), while for the latter are Local Economic Development (LED) and urban
regeneration (Rogerson, 2002; Rogerson & Visser, 2005; Rogerson, 2009).
Despite a continuous government acknowledgement that cultural tourism can
secure the competitiveness of the South Africa tourism economy, there is no
mention in the final NCHTS (NDT, 2012) of developments of iconic routes,
township tourism, cultural villages and urban tourism all of which comprise the
most visited classes of cultural heritage attractions in South Africa. Furthermore,
the strategic backing for the new NCHTS remains unexpectedly limited. Even
though the medium term Strategic Plan 2011/2012-2015/2016 of the National
Department of Tourism (NDT) has identified “the development of niche
products such as cultural heritage tourism as a priority” (NDT, 2011c:6), the
National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS) failed to address the development of
cultural tourism in any of its objectives. The only reference to cultural tourism in
the final NTSS is under 2.2(ii) ‘niche product development and rural tourism’
identifying a strategic gap as “poor quality, management and maintenance of
cultural heritage attractions” (NDT, 2011b:22).
Another problem for implementation and monitoring the NCHTS is absence of
culture as a purpose of visit in the South African Tourism’s (SAT) international
visitors’ exit questionnaire. The absence of cultural purpose for the visit means
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there is no measurement of the volume and value of cultural tourism in South
Africa. More importantly, lack of statistical data on cultural travel to South
Africa prevents any segmentation of the main source markets based on culture as
the main motivation for travel to South Africa and thwarts any comparison with
current international cultural tourism trends. Moreover, the fact that South Africa
has new NCHTS but no data to facilitate any measurements of cultural tourism
demand in the country means that strategic decisions and any corrective
measures regarding future strategic goals will not be informed by national
statistical data.
Evidence of weaknesses which underpin new NCHTS go against the South
African’s government own recommendation that “an industry that is innovative
is one that is characterised by businesses, institutions and organisations that are
informed, sophisticated in their outlook and constantly investing to upgrade their
performance against their consumer’s every changing needs and choices” (SAT,
2008b:37). In order to upgrade the country’s performance against changing
consumers’ needs one must first and foremost know who these consumers are so
as to know what their needs and choices are. Generally, cultural tourists are the
most prevalent and the most desirable market segment in the world’s tourism:
They are highly educated with higher than average educational level (70% hold
higher degrees, 20% masters or doctorates), they are also the highest spenders
(spend 30% more than an average tourist), and represent young emerging market
(40% are younger than 30 years) (ATLAS, 2004:2; Richards, 2007:15). Since the
main motivation for cultural tourists is learning and novel experiences arising
from the unique and authentic qualities of cultural heritage, they are also
classified as serious leisure tourists (Stebbins, 1996).
Despite marketing South Africa globally as a cultural tourism destination, neither
South African Tourism (SAT) responsible for marketing the country
internationally nor the National Department of Tourism (NDT) responsible for
developing and implementing NCHTS are aware of how many of these sought
after tourists are actually responding to SAT calls. South Africa is calling
cultural tourists but it seems that the question nobody is currently capable of
answering is: Are they coming? This paper represents a contribution to South
African cultural tourism discourse as it provides an answer to this decisive
question, at least to some extent. The specific aim of the paper is to offer a
theoretical framework which will inform a selection of particular national and
international data on cultural motivation and behaviour characteristics of South
African main source markets. In particular, the paper will present an estimate of
the market share of South African international European and USA cultural
tourism in general and genuine cultural tourists in particular. It will also give an
overview of the behaviour characteristics of genuine cultural tourists which is of
vital importance in securing future success of cultural heritage tourism
development in South Africa.
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This paper involves the analysis of two sets of sources. A theoretical framework
for the study is derived from the secondary sources which cross-examine the
main theoretical concepts underpinning cultural tourism motivation and
consumption of cultural heritage. The second set of sources draws on existing
South African national tourism data, strategies and reports, the US national
statistics and European Commission’s and Gallup’s research reports. All the data
is cross referenced in such a manner so the South African genuine cultural
tourism market from Europe and United States could be estimated.
The paper is structured in two sections. The first section provides a theoretical
overview of the complexities of cultural motivation and a resultant general
typology of cultural tourists. It further provides an insight into the changing
nature of cultural tourism demand which affects the character of cultural
consumption in a destination. These theoretical concepts are applied in the
selection of tourism statistical data presented in the second section. The selection
of European and USA tourists is justified by the fact that these two segments
represent the main international leisure markets for South African tourism and at
the same time are recognised as the main growth markets for cultural tourism
worldwide.
The curious case of cultural motivation
In tourism the relationship between needs, motivations, types of consumed
products and the resultant tourist experiences is understood to be straightforward,
casual and well defined (Leiper, 1990:383). The same relationships in cultural
heritage tourism proved to be dissonant and in many instances non-correlational
(Richards, 2002:1054). Since cultural heritage consumption does not coincide
with the purpose of tourism travel, any tourist with any type of motivation can
become a consumer of cultural heritage products offered at a destination (Poria,
Reichel & Biran, 2006:163). It is the only tourism product which can be
consumed without a ‘presence’ of a cultural tourist (Ivanovic, 2008). As
motivation for consumption of culture and heritage can vary significantly to
include anything from learning to entertainment, reliance on cultural motivation
proved to be a very poor predictor of tourists’ actual consumption of a
destination’s culture and heritage (McKercher & du Cross, 2002:144-147,
2003:46) and even less of an indicator of the nature of such a consumption
(Goulding, 2000:268). Realisation that any tourist with any type of motivation
can consume cultural heritage available in a destination rendered the centrality of
cultural motivation an insufficient criterion in distinguishing between the main
types of cultural tourists (McKercher, 2002; McKercher & du Cros, 2002, 2003);
thus an inclusion of the depth of experience is sought as the second dimension.
By incorporating both dimensions, McKercher and du Cros (2002) proposed a
typology of cultural tourists consisting of five types: deep cultural experience is
characteristic of purposeful (strong motivation) and serendipitous (no
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motivation) cultural tourists, while shallow experience is typical of sightseeing
(strong motivation), incidental (moderate motivation), and casual (low/no
motivation) cultural tourists.
Because of the complex nature of cultural tourist typology a distinction between
genuine and accidental cultural tourists (Richards, 2003) will be applied
throughout this paper. While for the former culture represents the main reason
for travel to a destination, the latter consumes cultural heritage sites as part of an
overall destination’s experience. As delineation between culturally and non-
culturally motivated travel is currently the only available tool in separating
genuine from accidental cultural tourists’ consumption, the importance of an
inclusion of cultural motivation in SAT exit survey is therefore of utmost
importance. In theory, even this simple categorisation proved problematic for
two reasons: firstly, even among genuine cultural tourists a degree of motivation
varies “from those who have only a passing interest in local culture, to those
driven by their specific interests to seek out a particular destination” (Richards,
2002:1052); secondly, a differentiation between culturally and non-culturally
motivated tourists is weakened by the emerging evidence of the omnivore nature
of cultural tourists’ consumption.
Cultural tourists tend to consume a whole range of different classes of attractions
available in a destination ranging from entertainment, nature-based activities,
sightseeing, learning at cultural heritage sites, to participation in high cultural
activities such as art and classical music. This particular behaviour characteristic
of serious leisure tourists is called omnivorouseness and is identified in ATLAS
data as a general trend evident in many destinations worldwide. Richards
(2011:11) observed that the consumption of cultural heritage attractions at
destinations worldwide increased more rapidly than the increase in culturally
motivated travel. Lohman and Mundt’s (2002:220) study of the behavioural
characteristics of German cultural tourists have shown that of 30.1% of tourists
attending cultural festivals only 20,2% considered themselves as cultural tourists.
With an increase in cultural capital the cultural tourists are becoming more
omnivorous (Toivonen, 2006:39; Richards, 2011:22) as they tend to visit many
different classes of attractions especially to combine cultural heritage, art and
natural attractions. As an example, Richards and Wilson (2007) identified the
interactive travellers (IT) in the creative tourism programme in New Zealand as
cultural omnivores as they equally participated in natural, cultural, and social
activities. Using the ATLAS data, Richards and Palmer (2010:325-326)
compared the proportion of cultural omnivores in the consumption preferences
between heritage, arts and festival tourists. Festival tourists had the highest
proportion of cultural omnivores as they spread their consumption across
heritage, art and cultural events, unlike the other two types who concentrate on
either heritage or art. As an example, while 100% of heritage tourists visited
museums, 0% visited the art galleries. Similarly, while 100% of arts tourists
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visited art galleries, they had 0% visitation to traditional festivals. On the
contrary, festival tourists did not have 0% visitation to any cultural attraction;
29% visited museums and 25% art galleries (Richards & Palmer, 2010:326).
Consequently, visiting specific attractions “cannot be used as a proxy for the
main motive and not even as the important motive for a trip” (Toivonen,
2006:41). Evidently, the omnivorousness poses a challenge to the effectiveness
of the motivation based market segmentation especially in cultural heritage
tourism. Benefit segmentation and the focus on the existential value of tourist
consumption might prove more effective in counterbalancing the evidently weak
relationship between motivation and tourist experiences.
Another problem for motivation-based segmentation arises from the fact that
post-modernity changes the analysis of motivation because “motivations have
been conventionally explained in a systematic model of purpose which assumes
rationality” (Ryan, 2002:26). It can be argued that the omnivorousness of tourist
consumption will in the near future became a dominant form of tourist
consumption and consequently pose a challenge as it subsequently nullifies the
current casual relationship between numerous classes of tourist attractions,
tourist motivations and related (sub)types of tourism. Further evidence of
complications arising from omnivorousness of tourist consumption can be found
in the research study conducted by van Vuuren and Slabbert (2011) on the
behaviour of tourists to a South African holiday resort in KwaZulu Natal. The
results of the factor analysis clearly revealed that enriching and learning
experience is one of the five main factors of travel motivation even though the
main purpose for a visit was explicitly the recreational holiday.
Operationalisation of the theoretical constructs
The theory of cultural motivation implying that any tourist with any type of
motivation will end up consuming culture while at a destination allows for some
inferences to be made from currently available international and South African
sources. Based on the fact that culture is consumed as both a primary and
secondary motivation, an apparent lack of data on culture as a primary purpose
of travel can still be substituted by the data on the propensity for cultural
consumption as the secondary motivation by international tourists on holiday and
tourists visiting friends and relatives (VFR). These two segments comprise the
leisure segment which is already known to consume cultural heritage as a
secondary motivation. This approach is also justified by the evidence of an
increase from 42.3% (2010) to 43.6% (2011) of all holiday tourists (SAT,
2011:58; SAT, 2012:59) that engage in cultural, historical and heritage activities
while in South Africa.
In order to determine the behavior characteristics of the main long haul leisure
segments to South Africa and even more importantly, the size of the genuine
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(also purposeful) cultural tourism segment to South Africa, the surveys
conducted in tourists’ respective countries and in South Africa will be utilized
and further compared with the general profile characteristics of cultural tourists
determined by international reports. If the characteristics correspond, it can be
deduced with certainty that they are cultural tourists having culture as the main
motivation for travel to South Africa. A comparison will also allow for an
estimation of the genuine cultural tourism segment based on the propensity for
consumption of culture in their respective countries. It will further allow for an
approximation of cultural consumption of international leisure tourists while
travelling to non EU countries such as South Africa. Data available from the
SAT 2011 Annual Tourism report and the South African Competitiveness Study
phase 1 (SAT, DEAT & DTI, 2004) provide an insight into the nature of
activities and tourist experiences, as well as satisfaction with consumed cultural
heritage in South Africa.
Data regarding the profile characteristics and attitudes of European tourists
towards a holiday and the consumption of culture is derived from two surveys,
Gallup 2009 and the Eurostat Cultural statistics 2011. The Gallup survey is an
opinion poll based on the responses of 27 127 of randomly selected citizens over
15 years old from 27 EU states (Gallup, 2009:4). Eurostat is a statistical service
of the European travel Commission which integrates the statistical results
supplied by all 27 EU member states. The data source for the 2011 report titled
“The Cultural Statistics pocketbook” is based on the survey results of 26,755
citizens from 27 EU member states conducted during 2007 (Eurostat, 2011:143).
Data for the USA tourists is obtained from the official annual United States
reports on citizen air travel to overseas regions, Canada and Mexico 2011
published by the Office of Travel & Tourism Industries of the US Department of
Commerce. The same office also published a report, “Profile of U.S resident
travellers visiting overseas destinations: 2011 outbound.” Data from the above
mentioned international sources are cross-referenced with the South African
Tourism’s data in an attempt to provide a clearer picture regarding the size of the
main long haul European and USA tourist markets to South Africa based on
propensity for cultural consumption.
Profiling South African international cultural tourism markets
As already indicated, holiday and visiting friends and relatives (VFR) as a
purpose for travel to South Africa constitute the international leisure market
segment. From 8 339 354 international arrivals in 2011 (SAT, 2012:1) the total
international leisure market for South African tourism (holiday 19.5% + VFR
25.0% = 44.5%) is 3 711 013 tourists.
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Table 1: European and USA long haul leisure markets to South Africa in 2011
Main Source Markets 2011 Total Arrivals Holiday + VFR = Leisure
UK 420 453 38.6% 33.3% 71.9% (302 306)
USA 287 614 47.5% 14.8% 62.3% (179 221)
Germany 235 774 53.8% 14.9% 68.7% (161 977)
Netherlands 113 846 48.1% 17.8% 65.9% (75 025)
France 105 420 42.5% 14.6% 57.1% (60 195)
(Source: StatsSA, 2012:27; SAT, 2012:90) Total: 778 724.
Of the total leisure market, European and USA leisure markets (as presented in
Table 1) account for 778 724 tourists, while the combined value of four main
European source markets is 599 503 tourists. Due to a lack of statistical data on
cultural motivation the international leisure market cannot be further broken
down into general and specific cultural tourists - instead the whole market is
regarded as the general tourist market for South African cultural heritage
tourism.
Deeper understanding of the behaviour characteristics of the main outbound
markets and their preferences for cultural heritage activities is of critical
importance in securing the competitiveness of South Africa as a cultural tourism
destination.
European (cultural) tourists to South Africa
According to the Eurostat findings (2011:192) the most important considerations
for the EU members when deciding on the holiday destination are value for
money (44%), cultural attractiveness (31%), and the quality of services (23%).
The Gallup findings (presented in Table 2) corroborate these choices. The overall
attractiveness of a destination is the major consideration for 31% of Europeans
followed by cultural heritage (24%) and entertainment possibilities (15%) as the
second and third most important criterion for choosing a destination (Gallup,
2009:7).
Based on the same findings (Gallup, 2009:110), the attractiveness of the
environment plays a major role in the choice of a destination for 31% tourists on
average. For the main holiday 36% of all respondents travelled outside the EU in
2009 (Eurostat, 2011:192).
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Table 2: Attractions influencing a choice of destination for four European source markets
Eu Main
Source
Markets 2010
Art
(%)
Gastro
Nomy
(%)
Entertainment
(%)
Culture &
Heritage (%)
Festivals &
Events (%)
Attractiveness
(%)
Uk 2.5 5.0 23.1 31.7 6.1 14.9
Germany 3.1 4.2 6.9 20.7 3.5 53.1
Netherlands 3.9 9.4 14.5 30.5 5.6 11.0
France 5.1 11.3 18.3 22.6 4.8 31.2
(Source: Gallup, 2009:109)
When selecting between the conventional and non-conventional destinations
54% of the European tourists preferred the former while 28% preferred ‘off the
beaten track’ type of a destination. For half of the respondents (48%) a decisive
factor in selecting a non-conventional destination is the couleur locale (Gallup,
2009:6) of whom 17% had a primary focus on cross-cultural experiences, such
are visiting cities, cultural events, and cultural heritage sites. Africa as a non-
conventional destination is preferred by 3.5% of UK tourists, 2.2% Germans,
2.5% tourists from Netherlands, and 6.1% French (Gallup, 2009:116).
The volume of culturally motivated travel from the four main European source
countries to South Africa is 164 675 (as presented in Table 3). It is calculated
when the percentage of tourists having culture as the main motive for travel
according to Gallup is deduced from the numbers depicting the South African
leisure segments for each European country. It can be further calculated that a
total of 164 675 tourists, as presented in Table 3, are in fact genuine cultural
tourists having culture and heritage as the main motive for travel. They represent
27.5% of the European leisure market in South Africa. Genuine cultural tourists
coincide with purposeful cultural tourists from McKercher’s typology of cultural
tourists.
Table 3: Estimated volume of culturally motivated travel to South Africa from four European
source markets
European main
source markets
for SA in 2011
Leisure market
to SA
Total:599 503
Role of culture & heritage in a
choce of destination (Gallup %)
Culturaly motivated travel
to SA 2011 (Gallup%)
Uk 302 306 31.7 95 831
Germany 161 977 20.7 33 529
Netherlands 75 025 22.6 16 956
France 60 195 30.5 18 359
(Sources: Gallup, 2009:109; Stats SA, 2012:8); Total 164 675.
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The USA (cultural) tourists to South Africa
According to the US Office of Travel and Tourism Industries: The profile of US
travelers visiting overseas destinations in 2011, the volume of USA outbound
leisure travel (holiday + VFR) was 22 321 000 in 2011 (US, 2012a:10).
According to the same source 3% of all USA outbound leisure tourists traveled
to Africa while 0.8% visited South Africa in 2011. Derived from USA statistics a
total of 178 568 USA tourists visited South Africa which corroborate the number
of 179 221 USA tourists as reported in South African sources.
In terms of their behavioural characteristics, the USA outbound tourists show
similar preferences towards consumption of cultural heritage products as their
European counterparts. According to USA source, 35% of all leisure tourists
(Leisure + VFR) visited cultural heritage sites in a destination visited, which
further implies that 7 812 350 USA tourists travelling overseas are the general
cultural tourists (US, 2012b:11). The most important leisure activities undertaken
at a destination in 2011 are: 53% visited historical places, 24% visited art gallery
or museum and 14% visited ethnic heritage sites.
It is interesting to note that very similar data emerges from the SAT 2011 Annual
Tourism Report (2012:130) whereby 49% (or 87 818) of all USA tourists are
visiting cultural, historical and heritage attractions in SA. When the USA
tourists’ high preference for visiting historical places (53%) and cultural heritage
sites (35%) is applied on the USA leisure market in South Africa totaling 179
221 tourists, it can be deduced that at least 94 987 will visit South African
historical sites and 62 727 will visit a cultural heritage site. Furthermore, 43 013
will visit a museum or art gallery (24%) and further 25 091 will visit a South
African cultural village (14%). Arising from the theory of omnivouressnes and
taking into consideration the high level of cultural capital of tourists consuming
cultural heritage and art, the data from the three categories can be combined
resulting in 200 727 USA tourist visits to cultural heritage sites in South Africa.
When the USA cultural heritage (genuine) consumption (94 987) is combined
with the European specific (purposeful) cultural heritage consumption (164 675),
it can be estimated that 259 662 long haul European and USA leisure tourists
were genuine cultural tourists in South Africa in 2011. From a total of 778 724
European and USA leisure tourists, it can be calculated that the genuine cultural
tourism market segment for South Africa is 21%. This is an important estimate
and the significance of the 21% share of purposeful cultural tourists in South
Africa is further evaluated against the research findings from different studies.
For example, in McKercher’s (2002:33) initial study on the typology of cultural
tourists conducted on the sample of 2066 departing international tourists from
the Hong Kong international airport, the purposeful cultural tourists accounted
for 11.8%. Of those, 20.5% were Americans, 6.8% from the UK, and 9.8%
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Australians. In explaining these variations, Richards (2007:27) suggests that the
further the tourists travel and the less familiar the destination, “the higher
proportion of tourists who deliberately seek a genuine cultural experience.” The
same can explain the very high occurrence (21%) of purposeful cultural tourists
in South Africa. The occurrences of other types of cultural tourists from
McKercher’s original study (2002:36) are 6.2% serendipitous, 27.9% incidental,
23.5% casual and 30.7% sightseeing.
Another study conducted in Taunggyi-Inlay Region of Myanmar (Htun &
Chaisawat, 2008) on 250 foreign tourists showed a 20% occurrence of the
purposeful cultural tourists, the same as in South Africa. The study is interesting
as the majority of tourists were from Europe (56.7%) and USA (10.7%) allowing
for a comparison with South Africa.
Cultural heritage activities vs. experiences
According to the SA Global Competitiveness Study (SAT, DEAT & DTI,
2004:369) the Americans (85%) and Europeans (77%) are the most interested in
South African cultural activities.
While European tourists’ participation rate in cultural activities is 39% (SAT,
2012:130), only 5% regard cultural experience as their best experience in South
Africa (SAT, 2012:130). So do also 35% of American tourists feel that their
demand for cultural experience did not materialise due to a lack of satisfactory
cultural product offerings.
Since 2007 when the ‘new’ category ‘culture and heritage’ has been included for
the first time into SAT Annual Tourism reports, (SAT, 2008a:104) the poor
ratings of culture and heritage as the best tourist experience in South Africa
corroborate the opinions of the international tourists. In the 2011 SAT Annual
Tourism Report a mere 2% increase (SAT, 2012:134) in tourists rating of
‘culture and heritage’ as the most positive experience in South Africa in the past
three years is evident. What is more worrying is the evidence of the falling trend
2007-2011 in the ratings of ‘culture and heritage’ experience across the entire
South Africa’s long-haul international generating markets. The USA rating
dropped from 12% in 2007 to 5% in 2011 while Europe decreased from 10% to
5% in the same period. This is in stark contrast with relatively stable trend of
actual consumption of ‘cultural, historical and heritage’ by the same markets for
the same period 2007/2011; USA decreased only 4% (from 53% to 49%), while
Europe decreased 8% (from 47% to 39%) which is a cause for concern.
Regarding the tourist satisfaction with the consumed products, the category
‘culture and heritage’ does not feature in any of the reports. Even though ‘culture
and heritage’ is not included in the satisfaction ratings it can be postulated that a
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discrepancy between the percentage of actual consumption and ratings of
‘culture and heritage’ as the best experience in South Africa can only be
indicative of tourists’ dissatisfaction with the consumed cultural heritage
products in South Africa.
Conclusion
The aim of this article was to present an overview of the issues arising from
cultural motivation in cultural heritage tourism in general, to differentiate
between the specific and general cultural tourist motivations, genuine and
accidental consumption of culture and heritage, to provide an insight into the
main behaviour characteristics of South African main long haul leisure markets
(Europe and USA), to determine the size of culturally motivated travel to South
Africa and finally to critically analyse international long haul source markets’
participation rate in cultural activities and corresponding experiential values.
What clearly emerged from the brief presentation of the international and SAT
data related to the cultural heritage activities and experiences of European and
USA genuine cultural tourists in South Africa is the fact that the problem does
not lie in a lack of tourists’ interest in South African cultural heritage products
but rather in the low experiential value of country’s culture and heritage. South
Africa is calling and cultural tourists are coming but plummeting ratings of the
experiential value of South African culture and heritage are a reason for concern.
Even more so because the problem cannot be rectified unless we know where in
its strategic decisions and promotion of the country the government is going
wrong and which and how many of the country’s main cultural heritage products
are the most disappointing to tourists. This implies that more research on this
topic is required. Steyn and Spencer (2011:198) in the analysis of South African
macro tourism policies provided an insight into some of the main tourism related
problems: tourism promotional policies are not working well; SAT as well as
regional tourist authorities’ marketing skills are questionable; the strategic
direction regarding SAT market positioning and marketing focus are wrong
therefore chances of success are limited.
The authors (Steyn & Spencer, 2011:198) rightfully point out a major problem of
South African government’s direct political interference in creating the cultural
image of South Africa which is not exactly what European main source markets
expect or desire:
“A clear differentiation between South Africa and its neighbors in terms
of marketing strategy could help tourism, but such an approach clashes
directly with government’s efforts to form stronger African alliances. To
what extent a more Afro-centric approach appeal to European visitors is
uncertain, but it is certainly the wish of the present government to
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promote African cultures and create a stronger African image” (Steyn &
Spencer, 2011:198).
Whatever the cause of the problem, the fact still remains that our culture and
heritage is not satisfactory not only for the genuine (purposeful) cultural tourists
who make up 21% of two main leisure source markets (for whom the
authenticity of experience is simply a non-negotiable), but also for a substantial
percentage of general cultural tourists who are much more tolerant in their
assessment of experiential value of destination’s cultural heritage. In order to
address the problem of inadequate offerings of cultural heritage tourism
resources and their overall unacceptably low experiential value, the following
should be addressed as a matter of urgency:
• Inclusion of culture as a purpose for visit in the SAT International Exit
questionnaire will facilitate informed decisions regarding development of
cultural tourism in South Africa while providing justification for future
investments into the cultural heritage sector;
• Introducing mandatory visitors surveys at various cultural heritage sites
in order to establish which cultural heritage tourism products are
underperforming and why;
• Better communication with the industry about the size and potential of
the genuine cultural tourism market;
• More effective management of cultural heritage attractions for tourism.
Specifically better communication with and education of cultural heritage
managers regarding methods to effectively balance tourism use with their
conservation mandate; and
• Focus on political cultural heritage arising from the unique South African
struggle history and packaging and marketing complimentary attractions
into attractive and unique South African cultural products such as
connecting townships into a cultural route.
If not resolved, this particular problem can cause an irreversible damage to South
African tourism because as a “competition among tourism destinations has
become very intense, more destinations are competing on the experience level”
(Saayman & Du Plessis, 2003:58). South Africa has unique cultural tourism
products that need to be packaged and promoted. What sets apart the numerous
cultural heritage assets around the world is a distinctiveness of their respective
histories which prevent possible replication by competing destinations. The
variety and distinctiveness of cultural heritage forms a basis for clear delineation
between the attractions at the experiential level. This is the reason why cultural
heritage assets have been used as a point of differentiation between competing
destinations and “feature prominently in destination-branding strategies”
(McKercher & du Cros, 2002:155). An acknowledgement “that foreign tourists
are exposed to fewer and less authentic cultural experiences than they expect or
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desire” (SAT, 2010:47) and that “our cultural assets are largely unclear in the
consumer’s mind, and undifferentiated from the rest of the continent” (SAT,
2008b:37) despite the fact that 91.67% of international tour operators consider
‘historical and cultural’ resources the ‘strength’ of South Africa as a tourist
destination (Saayman & Du Plessis, 2003:60) is one of the contradictions which
currently hinders the future development of cultural tourism in South Africa. The
main question still remains: Would cultural tourists keep on coming and for how
long?
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