Tourism, business linkages and small enterprise development in South Africa

By M. Kirsten, C. Rogerson. 2002

160 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. D. Meyer
2. G. Moscardo
3. A. Spenceley
4. C. Rogerson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Rogerson
2. D. Meyer
3. G. Moscardo
4. A. Spenceley
5. H. Goodwin
6. Laurie Murphy
7. J. Rogerson

In Strategy and Management

1. G. Moscardo
2. D. Meyer
3. A. Spenceley
4. C. Rogerson

Citations in the corpus

• Pro-Poor Tourism: From Leakages to Linkages. A Conceptual Framework for Creating Linkages between the Accommodation Sector and ‘Poor’ Neighbouring Communities (2007, background): “SMME development and support to the informal sector It is suggested that development objectives are best served by SMME development instead of inward investment and the attraction of TNCs (e.g. Dahles, 1998; Kirsten & Rogerson, 2002; Rodenburg, 1980; Wanhill, 2000).”
• Tourism and poverty reduction: theory and practice in less economically developed countries (2012, unknown): “…exchange (Ashley, Roe, & Goodwin, 2001), inter-sectoral linkages (Belisle, 1983, 1984; Meyer, 2007; Momsen, 1996; Torres 2002, 2003), entrepreneurship and small, medium and micro-enterprise (SMME) development (Kirsten & Rogerson, 2002), and nature conservation (Saarinen, 2009; Spenceley, 2008).”
• Sustainable Tourism Innovation: Challenging Basic Assumptions (2008, background): “Such options are claimed to have better outcomes because they are smaller in scale, which is typically associated with more limited environmental and social impacts and greater opportunities for local businesses to get involved ( Kirsten and Rogerson, 2002 ).”
• Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa (2007, background): “…option for community development and poverty alleviation in South Africa: through employment (Binns & Nel, 2002; Mahony & van Zyl, 2002; Poultney & Spenceley, 2001); small enterprise development (Kirsten & Rogerson, 2002); and enterprise ownership (Mahony & van Zyl, 2002; Ntshona & Lahiff, 2003).”
• Exploring social representations of tourism planning: issues for governance (2011, background): “Two ways that are commonly recognised in the tourism literature are relinquishing ownership of resources such as land and infrastructure to external businesses ( Sulaiman, 1996 ), and a lack of democratic government procedures ( Li, 2004 ).”
• Pro-Poor local economic development in South Africa: The role of pro-poor tourism (2006, background): “Promotion of small businesses and the informal sector as well as community involvement in eco-lodges is an important component of the activities of these enterprises (Kirsten & Rogerson, 2002).”
• Tourism–agriculture linkages in rural South Africa: evidence from the accommodation sector (2012, background): “Indeed, certain research demonstrates that participation in the supply chain could be more beneficial to the poor than direct involvement in core tourism activities (Ashley & Haysom, 2008; Kirsten & Rogerson, 2002).”