What is it about?
The paper uses archival sources to estimate the number of people - mostly Americans - who visited South Africa on cruise ships between the two World Wars, and who toured the country on organised train journeys as an integral part of their cruise. The archive reveals why the rail tours were started, how they were managed, and the places tourists visited. The tours showed off nature and modernity; they earned valuable publicity for South Africa.
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Why is it important?
The study highlights integration of overland and ocean cruise tourism. The case study is of a powerful state railway company generating and facilitating overseas tourism in a country with an extensive coastline and diverse tourist attractions in a large hinterland.
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This page is a summary of: Elite Exoticism: Sea-rail Cruise Tourism to South Africa, 1926–1939, African Historical Review, June 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17532523.2011.596621.
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