Gustav Visser
Biographic Data
| ID | 339368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gustav Visser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gustav |
| FAMILY NAME | Visser |
| SIGNATURE | VISSER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8521-4459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Strategic Management of Wine Tourism: A Journey Between the Old and New World of Wine
Implications of the Comparative Analysis Between Rioja and Mendoza
Wine tourism as a catalyst for sustainable competitive advantage: Unveiling the role of employee wellbeing and organizational commitment
Purpose This research aims to explore the influence of the wine tourism development on the sustainable competitive advantage of Spanish wineries as well as the role of employee well-being and organizational commitment on this main relationship. Design/methodology/approach This research formulates a theoretical model and then examines it through structural equation modeling. The analysis is based on data collected from 196 wineries in Spain, compi…
Moving Beyond the Gay Metropolises: Lessons Learned from Stellenbosch
After roughly 20 years since the emergence of urban scholarship in same-sex sexualities in South Africa, it is worthwhile considering how some of the concerns that originally animated that scholarship have evolved and also how such concerns are today reflected differently away from primary cities (where much earlier research was conducted). In this commentary, I explore the unique history of Stellenbosch, a university town/secondary city 50 km aw…
The Spatial Mismatch between Cities and Heritage Tourism Sites in Africa
Cities are the most visited tourism destinations in the world. They act as gateways to countries and regions and play host to a wide range of tourism attractions and activities, such as sports, theatres, museums, historic quarters, religious sites, conventions, and events. Sub-Saharan African cities (especially capital cities) are important gateways for tourism however they are not considered key centres for heritage tourism as per its internatio…
An overview of trends in geographical publication at Stellenbosch University
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Stellenbosch University is the oldest geography department in South Africa and celebrates its centenary in 2020. This paper provides insight into a range of publications that emanated from the department during that time. The presentation is periodized in three sections of review and analysis: the genesis of the department from 1920 up to 1947; the apartheid period of 1948 to 1993; and the …
New Directions in South African Tourism Geographies
Tourism as a Vehicle for Local Economic Development in Small Towns? When Things Go Wrong: The Case of Aliwal North, South Africa
issues have been of central concern in South African economic planning. The aim of this investigation was to examine the challenges of tourism-led LED in Aliwal North, a small town in South Africa. It shows that despite the many tourism products that could potentially be deployed as a development driver for LED in this town and its hinterland, a range of challenges have frustrated such ambitions. Challenges involve poor management of key tourism …
Studentification in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Globally, studentification has emerged as a prominent urban process, fast becoming entrenched in geographical discourse. Since the early 1990s, in both developed and developing world countries, an expansion in student enrolment has outstripped the ability of higher education institutions to provide adequate accommodation. These trends have been noted in South Africa too. The extent and impact of studentification on the urban geography of those pl…
Urban Tourism in the Developing World: The South African Experience
No time for smokescreen skepticism: A rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Focusing on the ‘blessing’ and not the ‘curse’ of second homes: Notes from S outh A frica
This paper is set against the backdrop of criticism from certain quarters framing second homes as an elitist phenomenon that is part of the negative consequences of changing rural geographies. It is shown that South Africa has a long history and ever growing number of second home owners across the whole spectrum of class cohorts who form an integral part of the country's rural geographies. It is argued that accepting and framing second homes as a…
African hosts and their guests: Cultural dynamics of tourism * Cultural tourism and identity: Rethinking indigeneity
Cultural tourism is arguably the oldest of the ‘new’ tourism phenomena. Much recent research has focused on how cultural tourism is deployed as a developmental strategy and the dangers of this approach. These two new contributions to the literature are important for three reasons. First, there are not many academic book-length contributions on tourism in Africa. Second, contributions to this scholarship are seldom focused purely on cultural touri…
Reflections on 25 Years of Urban Forum
A Decade of Progress in African Urban Tourism Scholarship
The Film Industry and South African Urban Change
Urban Tourism and the De-gaying of Cape Town’s De Waterkant
The on-going desegregation of residential property ownership in South Africa: The case of Bloemfontein
The investigation responds to the low ebb in racial property ownership desegregation discourse in South Africa. The paper provides a review of recent desegregation studies in South Africa and its empirical reflection in the secondary city of Bloemfontein. The investigation supports current discourses focused on desegregation of residential property ownership in urban South Africa. Drawing on the Bloemfontein experience, it is demonstrated that si…
An Uneasy Match: Neoliberalism, Gentrification and Heritage Conservation in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, South Africa
Tourism and Crisis
1. Tourism and Crisis: A Neverending Story? 2. Financial Crises in Tourism and Beyond: Connecting Economic, Resource and Environmental Securities 3. Much Ado about Nothing? Tourism and the Financial Crisis 4. South Africa's Destination Image: Media Framing and Representational Crisis 5. Hallmark Events as a Counter to Economic Downturn: 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup 6. Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on African Tourism: A Tourism Confidence I…
Challenging the gay ghetto in South Africa: Time to move on
Looking beyond the urban poor in South Africa: The New Terra Incognita for Urban Geography
The past two decades have seen the development of a rich body of scholarship focusing on South African urban settlements. An extensive narrative has emerged on the changing spatialities of the broader urban system, but the representation of South African urban areas remains surprisingly incomplete. The overwhelming majority of research deals with aspects of urban poverty and aims at informing policy and implementation responses that can provide a…
Stumbling over researcher positionality and political-temporal contingency in South African second-home tourism research
Over the past two decades, South Africa has experienced a series of fundamental changes in its institutional structures and society generally. This article provides an exploration into how these changes have impacted on field-based tourism research. Drawing on experiences involving a range of research contexts and different researcher types, the article first considers the impact of researcher positionality, demonstrating the dynamic ways in whic…
African Tourism Geographies: Existing Paths and New Directions
In the global profile of scholarship on tourism geographies, Africa is the least represented continent. With Africa's incorporation into the global tourism economy, considerable optimism has been raised by many national governments as well as external international development agencies as to the potential contribution of tourism for social and economic development across the continent. The number of geographical voices interrogating the nexus of …
Gay men, tourism and urban space: Reflections on Africa's 'gay capital
The advent of a post-apartheid dispensation triggered the large-scale expansion of the South African tourism system and promoted greater confidence in gay leisure space development. The general popularity of Cape Town as a tourist destination has also been echoed in the gay male tourism market, this city emerging as Africa's gay tourist capital. Writing from an unfamiliar setting regarding gay tourism research, the exploratory research reported i…
The homonormalisation of white heterosexual leisure spaces in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Gay men, leisure space and South African cities: The case of Cape Town
Challenging the gay ghetto in South Africa: Time to move on
The State and New-build Gentrification in Central Cape Town, South Africa
The objective of this investigation is to assess the relevance and potential of current international trends in the study of gentrification in the contemporary South African urban context. Against the backdrop of `new' gentrification experiences and debates it is argued that recent developments in the central-city districts of large South African cities present numerous opportunities for `new' gentrification processes to emerge as a central part …
Social Justice, Integrated Development Planning and Post-apartheid Urban Reconstruction
The paper focuses on the intersection between South African urban reconstruction and the development of social justice debates in urban geography. Drawing on a case study located in the Cape Metropolitan Region of South Africa, this investigation illustrates how decision-makers have implemented a planning strategy referred to as integrated development planning (IDP) to aid post- apartheid urban reconstruction. In so doing, the paper shows how thi…
Second homes and local development: Issues arising from Cape Town's De Waterkant
Gentrification and South African Cities
In other worlds: On the politics of research in a transforming South Africa
The Economic Impact of Second Home Development in Small-Town South Africa
This investigation aims to make a contribution towards addressing the general lack of academic reflection on second homes in the developing-world context. In particular, it aims to provide insight into the economic impacts of second home development on smaller settlements in remote rural areas of South Africa. While empirical evidence demonstrates the unique development characteristics and impacts of South African second home development, the inv…
Tourism Geographies and the South African National Research Foundation's Researcher Rating System: International Connections and Local Disjunctures
The function, form and outcomes of research assessment exercises have received considerable attention in the international journal press. However, as is generally the case with 'international' human geographical discourse, the foci of these debates are heavily tainted with the concerns of Anglo-American academics, with the UK's much-discussed Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), in particular, being under near-perpetual scrutiny. The idea of asses…
The developmental impacts of backpacker tourism in South Africa
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Economic Development Through Second Home Development: Evidence From South Africa
This investigation aims to make a contribution towards addressing the general lack of academic reflection on second homes in South Africa. In particular, it aims to provide insight into the economic impact of second home development on smaller settlements in remote rural towns in the country. While the empirical evidence demonstrates the unique development characteristics and impact of South African second home development, the investigation also…
Researching the South African tourism and development nexus
No time for smokescreen skepticism: A rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Stumbling over researcher positionality and political-temporal contingency in South African second-home tourism research
Over the past two decades, South Africa has experienced a series of fundamental changes in its institutional structures and society generally. This article provides an exploration into how these changes have impacted on field-based tourism research. Drawing on experiences involving a range of research contexts and different researcher types, the article first considers the impact of researcher positionality, demonstrating the dynamic ways in whic…
African Tourism Geographies: Existing Paths and New Directions
In the global profile of scholarship on tourism geographies, Africa is the least represented continent. With Africa's incorporation into the global tourism economy, considerable optimism has been raised by many national governments as well as external international development agencies as to the potential contribution of tourism for social and economic development across the continent. The number of geographical voices interrogating the nexus of …
Focusing on the ‘blessing’ and not the ‘curse’ of second homes: Notes from S outh A frica
This paper is set against the backdrop of criticism from certain quarters framing second homes as an elitist phenomenon that is part of the negative consequences of changing rural geographies. It is shown that South Africa has a long history and ever growing number of second home owners across the whole spectrum of class cohorts who form an integral part of the country's rural geographies. It is argued that accepting and framing second homes as a…
African hosts and their guests: Cultural dynamics of tourism * Cultural tourism and identity: Rethinking indigeneity
Cultural tourism is arguably the oldest of the ‘new’ tourism phenomena. Much recent research has focused on how cultural tourism is deployed as a developmental strategy and the dangers of this approach. These two new contributions to the literature are important for three reasons. First, there are not many academic book-length contributions on tourism in Africa. Second, contributions to this scholarship are seldom focused purely on cultural touri…
Looking beyond the urban poor in South Africa: The New Terra Incognita for Urban Geography
The past two decades have seen the development of a rich body of scholarship focusing on South African urban settlements. An extensive narrative has emerged on the changing spatialities of the broader urban system, but the representation of South African urban areas remains surprisingly incomplete. The overwhelming majority of research deals with aspects of urban poverty and aims at informing policy and implementation responses that can provide a…
Social justice and post-apartheid development planning: Reflections on moral progress in South Africa
This article focuses on South Africa's macro-development strategy through the lens of social justice theory. The two key post-apartheid development planning frameworks, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) and the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) macro-economic development strategy, are reviewed and their outcomes are assessed in terms of social justice theory. It is argued that while RDP was a strategy that had distinct…
In other worlds: On the politics of research in a transforming South Africa
Social Justice, Integrated Development Planning and Post-apartheid Urban Reconstruction
The paper focuses on the intersection between South African urban reconstruction and the development of social justice debates in urban geography. Drawing on a case study located in the Cape Metropolitan Region of South Africa, this investigation illustrates how decision-makers have implemented a planning strategy referred to as integrated development planning (IDP) to aid post- apartheid urban reconstruction. In so doing, the paper shows how thi…
Gay tourism in South Africa: Issues from the Cape Town experience
Gentrification and South African Cities
Visible, yet unknown: Reflections on second-home development in South Africa
The local development impacts of backpacker tourism: Evidence from the South African experience
Gay men, leisure space and South African cities: The case of Cape Town
Gay men, tourism and urban space: Reflections on Africa's 'gay capital
The advent of a post-apartheid dispensation triggered the large-scale expansion of the South African tourism system and promoted greater confidence in gay leisure space development. The general popularity of Cape Town as a tourist destination has also been echoed in the gay male tourism market, this city emerging as Africa's gay tourist capital. Writing from an unfamiliar setting regarding gay tourism research, the exploratory research reported i…
Social justice and post-apartheid development planning: Reflections on moral progress in South Africa
This article focuses on South Africa's macro-development strategy through the lens of social justice theory. The two key post-apartheid development planning frameworks, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) and the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) macro-economic development strategy, are reviewed and their outcomes are assessed in terms of social justice theory. It is argued that while RDP was a strategy that had distinct…
Second homes and local development: Issues arising from Cape Town's De Waterkant
The developmental impacts of backpacker tourism in South Africa
Researching the South African tourism and development nexus
Let’s be festive: Exploratory notes on festival tourism in South Africa
Tourism in urban Africa: The South African experience
Second homes tourism in Africa: Reflections on the South African experience
On poor whites in post-appartheid cities: The case of Bloemfontein
Creating an African Riviera: Revisiting the Impact of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront Development in Cape Town
The Evolving South African Neighbourhood: The Case of Westdene, Bloemfontein
Urban Tourism in Bloemfontein: Current Dynamics, Immediate Challenges and Future Prospects
The homonormalisation of white heterosexual leisure spaces in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Revitalizing the Bloemfontein CBD: Prospects, Obstacles and Lost Opportunities
Exploratory Notes on the Geography of Black Gay Leisure Spaces in Bloemfontein, South Africa
The State and New-build Gentrification in Central Cape Town, South Africa
The objective of this investigation is to assess the relevance and potential of current international trends in the study of gentrification in the contemporary South African urban context. Against the backdrop of `new' gentrification experiences and debates it is argued that recent developments in the central-city districts of large South African cities present numerous opportunities for `new' gentrification processes to emerge as a central part …
Residential Desegregation Dynamics in the South African City of Bloemfontein
The Thorny Issue of Identifying Second Homes in South Africa
Political science (44 works) · Geography (41 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Economics (31 works) · Economic geography (29 works) · Economic growth (29 works) · Tourism (27 works) · Human geography (22 works) · Law (18 works) · Local Economic Development and Planning (17 works)