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Lesotho and Swaziland development plans and tourism consultancies

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer Governments of Lesotho and Swaziland; consultants
Coverage 1973-1986
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Cobbe (1986) Kingdom of Lesotho, Third Five-Year Development Plan 1980-1985 1980-1985 Source of the government's poverty datum line estimate (over M1000 per household in 1980).
Crush and Wellings (1983) Associated Research Consultants, Development Plan for Tourism for Lesotho (Nairobi, 1974) 1974 Source of the 1974 projected tourist numbers and the length-of-stay projection (3.7 nights) that actuals are contrasted with.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Government of Swaziland, Second National Development Plan, 1973 to 1977 1973-1977 Source of the official estimate of 3.7 nights average length of stay, contrasted with the actual 2.8 nights.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Government of Swaziland, Third National Development Plan, 1978-9 to 1982-3; Government of Lesotho, Third National Development Plan, 1980-1 to 1985-6 1978-1986 Evidence of official planning assumptions favouring tourism expansion, state investment figures (E8m Swaziland), and government acknowledgement of tourism's negative effects.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Sores Inc., Tourist Market Diversification Survey: Kingdom of Swaziland (Montreal, 1980) 1980 Cited as an example of over-optimistic projections (200,000 tourists by mid-1980s) and on persistent market dominance of South Africa.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Steigenberger Consulting, Tourism Marketing Study for Qeme Plateau, Sehlabathebe National Park, Oxbow (Frankfurt/Zurich, 1981) 1981 Consultancy estimate that tourism 'leakage' in Lesotho is 60-70 per cent.
Crush and Wellings (1983) Stevenson and Kellogg, Tourism in Swaziland, Vol. 1, Project Report (Toronto, 1973) 1973 Supplies the estimate that only 42.8 per cent of tourism earnings accrued locally (leakage of almost 60 per cent).
Crush and Wellings (1983) Stevenson and Kellogg, Tourism in Swaziland, Vol. 2, Economic Analysis (Toronto, 1973) 1973 Supplies the optimistic and conservative 1973 tourist projections in Figure 1.