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Author : Kerstin Heuwinkel
School/Work Place : htw saar University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Contact : kerstin.heuwinkel@htwsaar.de
Year : 2016

With the end of apartheid, the government of South Africa defined a national sport tourism strategy in order to develop sport tourism and to benefit from its positive economic impact (Department, 2012). This shows the important role that sport has played in the transformation of the country (Swart et al., 2011). The strategy comprises bidding for and hosting international events, the extension of national events and finally training camps to attract international guests. Thus, for more than 20 years high performance athletes from all around the world have been travelling to Stellenbosch, South Africa, for training camps. Athletes spend up to six weeks per year in Stellenbosch and profit from sun, nature, sport infrastructure, and low cost of living. Preferred leisure time activities are relaxing, reading, shopping, skyping, or adventures like shark cage diving. Until now, little is known about the impact of these training camps.


List of Articles
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3 Think Tank XVI United we stand, divided we fall: Strategies for engag... file 660 Jul 01, 2016

Many tourism corporate responsibility programs require the support and/or compliance of guests or customers, yet little attention has been paid to the design of strategies to encourage this compliance. Research in the areas of tourist inter...

Author: Karen Hughes & Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2016 

OPA: 2016 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

2 Think Tank XVI Influencing sustainability through engagement in polic... file 835 Jul 01, 2016

The ability of businesses to influence the sustainability of tourism development is generally examined from two standpoints: the regulatory frameworks requiring particular actions with respect to how business is carried out, or to clients; ...

Author: Valentina Dinica 

Year: 2016 

1 Think Tank XVI Volunteering and donations for biodiversity conservati... file 431 Jul 01, 2016

In 2010, the newly elected government of New Zealand, of neo-liberal orientation, has adopted its Business Growth Agenda. This has been implemented through a series of legal, policy and organizational changes, affecting the governance of th...

Author: Valentina Dinica 

Year: 2016 

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