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Skills development for tourism in Alexandra township, Johannesburg

Skills development for tourism in Alexandra township, Johannesburg Skills Development for Tourism in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg Lucy Kaplan SKILLS FOR TOURISM South Africa faces a growing problem of structural unemployment in which a large portion of the country's citizens are excluded from access to the main- stream economy due, in part, to a lack of productive skills (Department of Labour, 2001; Mbeki, 2003). Structural unemployment is understood as the situation in which the majority of South Africans continue to be denied access to productive assets, the financial sector or markets and certified skills and are therefore un- able to benefit from any increase in jobs or work opportunities. Within this un- derstanding, the lack of productive skills is one of the key areas that restricts access to the economy for the majority of South Africans (Jackson, 2003; McGrath, 2003). It follows that skills development is an essential instrument of public policy and "at the very centre of pro-poor development strategies" (Bennell, 1999:5). In the case of tourism, the national Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) recognises the absence of adequate training and education as a major stumbling block to the development of tourism in South Africa and identi- fies as "perhaps the greatest deficiency in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Skills development for tourism in Alexandra township, Johannesburg

Kaplan, Lucy
Urban Forum , Volume 15 (4) – Jul 21, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2004 by Springer SBM
Subject
Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Human Geography; Sociology; Political Science; Population Economics
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1015-3802
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1874-6330
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10.1007/s12132-004-0015-3
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Skills Development for Tourism in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg Lucy Kaplan SKILLS FOR TOURISM South Africa faces a growing problem of structural unemployment in which a large portion of the country's citizens are excluded from access to the main- stream economy due, in part, to a lack of productive skills (Department of Labour, 2001; Mbeki, 2003). Structural unemployment is understood as the situation in which the majority of South Africans continue to be denied access to productive assets, the financial sector or markets and certified skills and are therefore un- able to benefit from any increase in jobs or work opportunities. Within this un- derstanding, the lack of productive skills is one of the key areas that restricts access to the economy for the majority of South Africans (Jackson, 2003; McGrath, 2003). It follows that skills development is an essential instrument of public policy and "at the very centre of pro-poor development strategies" (Bennell, 1999:5). In the case of tourism, the national Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) recognises the absence of adequate training and education as a major stumbling block to the development of tourism in South Africa and identi- fies as "perhaps the greatest deficiency in the

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Published: Jul 21, 2004

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