Battlefields Tourism: The status of heritage tourism in Dundee, South Africa
Battlefields Tourism: The status of heritage tourism in Dundee, South Africa

Summary/Abstract: Heritage tourism is a significant contemporary facet of tourism in manydeveloping countries. This paper analyses the economic opportunities for battlefield-heritagetourism in South Africa by examining the battlefields route withinKwaZulu-Natal. Through structured interviews with stakeholders and structuredquestionnaires with visitors and local residents, this research explores the understandingof heritage tourism as well as perceptions of its influence on the physicallandscape and gauges the importance of this form of tourism as a driver forlocal economic development in South Africa. Dundee, a small coal-mining townin KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – where several battlefields are found, is used asa case study. The study demonstrates that several issues need to be addressed ifthis niche of cultural and heritage tourism is to be a sustainable and responsibleform of tourism in South Africa

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