“Had its history been different, South Africa would probably have been one of the most visited places in the world.”? : analysing South African tourism history with special reference to the Western Cape, 1980-2000

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dc.contributor.advisorGrundlingh, Albert M.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCarstens, Rouzanneen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of History.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-24T11:37:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T12:55:14Z
dc.date.available2022-11-24T11:37:47Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T12:55:14Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.descriptionThesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: During his State of the Nation Address on 13 February 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa singled out tourism as a key driver for economic growth in the country. He also identified this industry as one of the most noteworthy contributors regarding job creation during the coming years. This is a sentiment which is reflected in a number of academic pieces, specifically those which focused on the so-called rebirth of the tourism industry in South Africa after 1994. Many believe the tourism industry only received attention when it was realized this industry could be used to promote the so-called ‘new’ South Africa after de Klerk’s surprising announcements of 1990. Even the White Paper: Development and Promotion of Tourism in South Africa of 1996 stated that if South Africa’s “history had been different, South Africa would probably have been one of the most visited places in the world.”2 This thesis questions this specific statement and the accompanying statements that it was the so-called ‘Mandela-Boom’ that led to South Africa’s thriving tourism industry, which, in 2019, was estimated to be worth R354,9 billion. This study specifically looks at how the tourism industry navigated and adapted with regards to the sanctions of the 1980s, the political changes of the 1990s and the new millennium in 2000.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tydens sy Staatsrede op 13 Februarie 2020 het President Cyril Ramaphosa spesifiek verwys na toerisme as a belangrike drywer van ekonomiese groei in die land. Hy het die bedryf ook identifiseer as een wat noemenswaardige bydrae kan lewer tot werksgeleenthede in die komende jare. Dié sentiment word gereflekteer in ‘n aantal akademiese werke, spesifiek daardie wat fokus op die sogenaamde wedergeboorte van die toerismebedryf in Suid-Afrika na 1994. Baie het geglo dat die toerismebedryf eers aandag geniet het toe dit besef was dat die industrie benut kon word om die sogenaamde ‘nuwe’ Suid-Afrika te bevorder, dit na die verrassende aankondigings van de Klerk in 1990. Selfs die White Paper: Development and Promotion of Tourism in South Africa of 1996 het verklaar dat as die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika anders was, “South Africa would probably have been one of the most visited places in the world.”3 Hierdie tesis beoog om dié stelling en soortgelyke stellings te bevraagteken, spesifiek die van die sogenaamde ‘Mandela-boom’ wat sommige glo bygedra het tot die florerende toerismebedryf in Suid-Afrika, wat in 2019 beraam was om R354,9 biljoen te beloop. Hierdie studie kyk spesifiek na hoe die toerismebedryf bedryf was en aangepas het rakende die sanksies van die 1980’s, die politieke veranderinge van die 1990’s en die nuwe millennium in 2000.af_ZA
dc.description.versionMastersen_ZA
dc.format.extentix, 129 pages : coloured illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126199
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectTourism -- South African -- Historyen_ZA
dc.subjectTourism -- South Africa -- Western Capeen_ZA
dc.subjectHospitality industry -- Economic aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectJob creation -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.title“Had its history been different, South Africa would probably have been one of the most visited places in the world.”? : analysing South African tourism history with special reference to the Western Cape, 1980-2000en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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