- Title
- Vulnerability in surf tourism: surf break decline and its impact on Herold's Bay, South Africa
- Creator
- Schröder, Klaus
- Subject
- Surfing -- South Africa
- Subject
- Tourism -- Environmental aspects Climatic changes -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/43501
- Identifier
- vital:36900
- Description
- Surfing has increasingly become a mainstream and demographically diverse activity that holds substantial economic worth. It also holds substantial social, cultural and spiritual value for participants and related communities. It is therefore not surprising that the maintenance of surf breaks has become an important element of coastal tourism, and that tourism management has had a growing concern with anthropogenic impacts on the shoreline. In line with these developments, this study investigates the vulnerability of surf tourism given the general consensus that there has been a human-induced decline of the river-mouth surf break in Herold’s Bay. An adapted ecological services model is used, and in line with such models, the status of the three types of capital (natural (physical) capital, climatic capital, and built capital) and their effect on recreation capital (surfing’s participation, market, and non-market values) over a twenty-year period is tracked. The findings identified alterations to the river bed morphology, beach morphology, wind direction, and swell intensity and frequency as the main determinants in surf break decline. The corresponding increase in vulnerability of Herold’s Bay’s surf tourism industry is also given as having negative socio-economic impacts. This study has underlined both the potential and the imperative to conserve, utilise and develop surf breaks and the surf tourism industry within South Africa.
- Format
- xi, 165 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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