文档介绍：本科毕业论文外文翻译
外文题目:Tourism Routes as Vehicles for Local Economic Development in South Africa: The Example of the Magaliesberg Meander
出处:Urban Forum, 2007, Volume 18, Number 2, Pages 85-104
作者: Jonathan Mograbi and Christian M. Rogerson
Abstract Tourism routes have emerged as a significant element for promotion of tourism, especially in small towns and rural areas. In South Africa, considerable policy attention is currently focused upon the development of new tourism routes. This article examines the local development impacts of the Magaliesberg Maender, a route tourism initiative that traverses across two South African provinces. It is argued that whilst this tourism route has extended the tourism growth potential of the locality, its wider impacts upon munities have been limited because of the weakness of local government to address issues concerning tourism planning.
Keywords Route tourism . Local economic development . Tourism planning South Africa
Introduction
Route development has been viewed as the world's best hope to secure sustainability in travel and tourism (ECI Africa 2006; Lourens 2007). Not surprisingly, in the international context, therefore, the development of themed routes as tourist attractions has gained prominence in recent years. In present-day South Africa, considerable activity also surrounds the development of 'route tourism', involving a linkage together of the tourism resources of a number of smaller centres and
collectively marketing them as a single tourism destination region (Briedenhann and Wickens 2004; Donaldson 2007). The development of wine routes as part of the strong and growing interest in special interest wine tourism represents one of the most well-known examples (Preston-Whyte 2000; Bruwer 2003). In addition, scenic routes are being widely used to assist development of the tourism potential of Free State and Western Cape provinces (Donaldson 2007). The most high profile and ambitious South African route tourism initi