IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/deveza/v33y2016i4p548-561.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Are ‘Albergo Diffuso’ and community-based tourism the answers to community development in South Africa?

Author

Listed:
  • Andrea Giampiccoli
  • Melville Saayman
  • Sean Jugmohan

Abstract

Conventional mass tourism shortcomings have facilitated the origin of alternative forms of tourism such as community-based tourism (CBT). Lately, another form of tourism known as ‘Albergo Diffuso’ (AD) has also been mentioned as a possible strategy to revive depressed specific local contexts, such as townships, villages and small towns. This article’s aim is twofold: first to contextualise the concept of AD in the South African milieu and secondly to investigate the possible relationship and role that CBT and AD could have. In this context, specific characteristics and similarities between CBT and AD are explored. The article’s main contribution concerns the exploration of the AD concept as an alternative form of tourism related to local community development. This is the first time that this concept has been presented in a South African context.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrea Giampiccoli & Melville Saayman & Sean Jugmohan, 2016. "Are ‘Albergo Diffuso’ and community-based tourism the answers to community development in South Africa?," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(4), pages 548-561, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:33:y:2016:i:4:p:548-561
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2016.1180968
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1180968
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1180968?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Valentin Herbold & Hannes Thees & Julian Philipp, 2020. "The Host Community and Its Role in Sports Tourism—Exploring an Emerging Research Field," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-26, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:33:y:2016:i:4:p:548-561. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CDSA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.