BLACK TRAVEL (IM-) MOBILITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CASE OF HISTORICAL URBAN TOURISM RESTRAINT
The politicization of urban tourism associated with overtourism and the growth of anti-tourism movements are leading issues in contemporary international scholarship on cities as tourism destinations. Policy-makers are challenged either to introduce limits to the numbers of visitors travelling t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Oradea
2024-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Română de Geografie Politică |
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| Online Access: | https://rrgp.uoradea.ro/art/2024-2/rrgp.262101-378.pdf |
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| Summary: | The politicization of urban tourism associated with
overtourism and the growth of anti-tourism movements are leading
issues in contemporary international scholarship on cities as tourism
destinations. Policy-makers are challenged either to introduce limits to
the numbers of visitors travelling to certain tourism destinations or for
enacting interventions to block particular types of tourism. This article
contributes an historical perspective to debates around the mitigation
and containment of urban tourism. The focus is on South Africa where
a battery of policies to restrain the mobilities of Black South African
were enacted and only dismantled with the demise of apartheid. The
impetus for restraint emerged from longstanding policies of racial
segregation which sought to limit severely the travel mobilities of Black
South Africans into the country’s major cities. Policy implementation
involved the regime of ‘pass laws’, requirements for visitor permits, and
the creation of only a minimal infrastructure to support (Black)
travellers with racial restrictions imposed on the provision of
accommodation services. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-7763 2065-1619 |