The potential role of cultural heritage resources in tourism and community development at Musina municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa
Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
ISSN: 2044-1266
Article publication date: 3 June 2022
Issue publication date: 18 June 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This study evaluates “the potential role of cultural heritage resources in tourism and community development at Musina Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa.”
Design/methodology/approach
Data on the local communities were collected by questionnaire surveys, focus group discussions and field observations.
Findings
The study revealed a variety of cultural and heritage resources; however, with current fewer implications of tourism welfare on the livelihoods statuses of the communities. Thus, there was a need for a potentially sound tourism strategy in cultural heritage resources to empower the local communities in the study area.
Originality/value
Musina Municipality has some of the most challenging impoverishment attributes within the province, defined by evident poor livelihoods. However, it remarkably possesses rich natural biodiversity and tourism destination areas. In line with the probe on the role of cultural heritage resources in tourism and community development, the study uncovers the values of attributing factors associated with the current nature of social heritage resources and their impacts on tourism and community developments. Issues of heritage and cultural resources on tourism and community development have become of main interest within the tourism industry.
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Acknowledgements
The author profoundly acknowledges the editors and anonymous reviewers for their guidance on the manuscript. The earlier ecotourism management and geographical information systems credentials from the University of Pretoria’s Tourism Management Division and Center for Environmental Studies enriched this study and are justly recognized. Henceforth, rural development and ethnobiology lessons from UNIVEN’s Geography and Biological sciences departments. SANSA Earth Observation is duly acknowledged for supporting this analysis, as are all the research participants in the study area.
Citation
Ramaano, A.I. (2024), "The potential role of cultural heritage resources in tourism and community development at Musina municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa", Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 689-709. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-02-2021-0019
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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