The Making of the South African Timeshare Industry: Spatial Structure and Development Challenges

• Autorzy: Wayde R. Pandy , Christian M. Rogerson
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Research on the accommodation sector attracts only a small fraction of contemporary tourism scholarship relating to sub-Saharan Africa. This paper contributes to this expanding literature on segmentation and the accommodation sector in South Africa. Specifically, it examines the establishment and making of the timeshare industry as a distinctive form of accommodation within the national tourism economy. The timeshare industry in South Africa is the largest and most mature in sub-Saharan Africa and among the most important in the developing world. The analysis uses a longitudinal perspective in order to interpret the emerging spatial organisation and evolving structural issues that impacted upon the development of the timeshare industry in its formative years from 1978 to 2002. The study addresses a knowledge gap around the minimal pursuit of historical research within the existing international literature about timeshare. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Tourism; Industry development; Spatial structure

PL

Turystyka; Rozwój przemysłu; Struktura przestrzenna

• Czasopismo: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Rocznik: 2014
• Numer: No. 26
• Strony: 183--201

Twórcy

autor

Wayde R. Pandy

• University of Johannesburg, South Africa

autor

Christian M. Rogerson

• University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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DOI

10.2478/bog-2014-0053