South Africa

PPT Working Paper No. 11

Strategies, Impacts and Costs of Pro-Poor Tourism Approaches in South Africa

Anna Spenceley and Jennifer Seif

January 2003

PPT Working Paper Series
9 Strengths and Weaknesses of a Pro-Poor Tourism Approach, Results of a Survey to Follow-Up Pro-Poor Tourism Research Carried Out in 2000-2001, by Dorothea Meyer 10 Methodology for Pro-Poor Tourism Case Studies, by Caroline Ashley 11 Strategies, Impacts and Costs of Pro-Poor Tourism Approaches in South Africa by Anna Spenceley and Jennifer Seif 12 Tourism in Poor Rural Areas: Diversifying the Product and Expanding the Benefits in Rural Uganda and The Czech Republic, by Jenny Holland, Louise Dixey and Michael Burian 13 Coping with Declining Tourism, Examples from Communities in Kenya, by Samuel Kareithi 14 Addressing Poverty Issues in Tourism Standards, by Dilys Roe, Catherine Harris and Julio de Andrade 15 Improving Access for the Informal Sector to Tourism in The Gambia, by Bah, A. and Harold Goodwin 16 Tourism to Developing Countries: Statistics and Trends, by Dorothea Meyer, Dilys Roe, Caroline Ashley and Harold Goodwin (forthcoming) 17 Outbound UK Tour Operator Industry and Implications for PPT in Developing Countries, by Dorothea Meyer (forthcoming)

These working papers, produced under the title 'Lesson-Sharing on Pro-poor Tourism', are the result of a collaborative research project carried out by the PPT Partnership. The PPT partnership is comprised of Caroline Ashley (ODI), Harold Goodwin (ICRT) and Dilys Roe (IIED). They are funded by the Economic and Social Research Unit (ESCOR) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

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Anna Spenceley is a doctoral candidate at the University of Greenwich and an associate of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism. Currently based at the Institute of Natural Resources in South Africa, she provides independent consultancy on specialises in sustainable and responsible tourism, with expertise in... [continues]

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