Tourism routes as a tool for the economic development of rural areas—vibrant hope or impossible dream?

By J. Briedenhann, E. Wickens. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Conceptualizing Integrated Rural Tourism (2007, background): “…and control has been recognized, with integration defined according to the percentage of local people employed, the type and degree of participation, the locus of decision-making power and ownership of resources in the local tourism sector (Stem et al. 2003; Briedenhann and Wickens 2004).”
• Tourism and Economic Growth (2016, background): “…for investments and support based on the assumption that tourism is an effective mechanism for economic growth, whether through the creation of new attractions (Waitt 2001; Getz 2008) or through infrastructure and enhancements (Briedenhann and Wickens 2004; Becker and George 2011; Liasidou 2012).”
• Exploring social representations of tourism planning: issues for governance (2011, background): “In many cases, this lack of market and marketing knowledge results in a loss of control over tourism decisions to external tour companies and operations, undermining the power of communities to influence the tourism development (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004; Wearing & McDonald, 2002).”
• Destination competitiveness and tourism development in Russia: Issues and challenges (2017, background): “…expansion of the tourism sector is often seen as inducing positive direct and indirect effects on the economy and on the wellbeing of communities (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004; Chen & Chiou-Wei, 2009; Croes & Venegas, 2008; Holzner, 2011; Ma & Hassink, 2013; Matarrita-Cascante, 2010; Tang & Tan,…”
• Tourism and its economic impact: A literature review using bibliometric tools (2018, background): “For many developing countries (Croes and Vanegas, 2008) and rural and marginalized areas (Briedenhann and Wickens, 2004), tourism may also represent a good prospect for poverty reduction and economic growth (‘rural tourism’).”
• Route tourism: a roadmap for successful destinations and local economic development (2007, background): “In South Africa today, route tourism is being actively developed, involving linking together the tourism resources of a number of smaller centres and marketing them collectively as a single tourism destination region (Rogerson, 2002a,b, 2004; Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004; ECI Africa, 2006b).”
• Small tourist firms in rural areas: agility, vulnerability and survival in the face of crisis (2004, background): “Nonetheless, tourism, especially small firm tourism, remains central to rural development (Briedenhann and Wickens, 2003).”
• Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance (2007, background): “…hand, despite a high degree of volatility, tourism has been proven to accelerate economic growth particularly in countries and regions deprived of alternative means of economic development, such as small island states and rural areas (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004; Gössling, 2003a; Harrison, 2003).”
• Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework (2007, background): “…for impoverished destinations is to promote certain forms of tourism that are largely built upon or have wide linkages with resources locally available and distinct, such as cultural tourism (UNWTO, 2004b), agrotourism (Torres & Momsen, 2004) and rural tourism (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004).”
• Can tourism help to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”? The challenge of tourism addressing SDG1 (2019, background): “Early case studies of tourism attempting to contribute to poverty alleviation showed that “a proactive interventionist approach is needed” whereby governments target the poor and establish legislation to back up affirmative action strategies (Briedenham and Wickens, 2004; Sofield, 2003, p. 351).”