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Title: | Safari lodges and local economic linkages in South Africa |
Authors: | Rogerson, Christian M. Hunt, Holly Rogerson, Jayne M. |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | Africanus (ISSN 0304-615X) |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 3-17 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | community-based tourism agriculture |
Abstract: | The potential contribution of tourism to the well-being of rural communities is impacted by the development of local economic linkages. For development practitioners and policy makers the importance of evolving linkages between tourism and agriculture demands attention. This article provides an examination of the state of linkages in South Africa's luxury safari lodge tourism sector. The results reveal the existence of only limited linkages between safari lodge accommodation providers and local agriculture. Current supply chains are mainly organized by intermediary supplier enterprises which source required food mainly from urban markets with only minimal local impacts. Linkages represent a vital potential mechanism through which to achieve the objectives of pro-poor tourism, and a first step to maximize pro-poor impacts and avert polarization, is to understand why such linkages rarely materialize and to identify the conditions necessary for them to do so. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |