Community capacity building through tourism: the case of Shakaland Zulu Cultural Village.
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines community capacity building as a strategy for tourism development at Shakaland Zulu Cultural Village (SZCV) in Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa. The paper evaluated the concepts that are considered to be influential in community capacity building in tourism. Community capacity building is an essential condition for tourism development thereby enhancing its benefits for local communities. It plays a significant role in identifying priorities and opportunities for development particularly in the tourism field. The adequacy of communal capacity building has largely been attributed to Shakaland Zulu’s Cultural Village inability to unleash its full potential. Thus, this paper aims to examine community capacity building as a stratagem for tourism development. The paper is mostly theoretical and propositive in its intentions. Some insight on SZCV serves to put forward various recommendations. A case study method is utilized to gather relevant information on capacity building opportunities (the training offered to SZCV employees). Semi-structured interviews were used as a method to collect required data. Recommendations on how to improve the current status are presented as an important part of this article.
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3178309304