Questions of authenticity in the Bo-Kaap tourism experience.

This research report will attempt to show that, in an attempt to cater for tourist tastes for the exotic, a Cape Malay identity has been constructed for the residents of the Bo- Kaap community which is made to date back to the 17th Century. Two books from popular tourist literature and three trav...

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Main Author:	Göpper, Janine
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Tourism > South Africa > Bo-Kaap (Cape Town).
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15177

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Questions of authenticity in the Bo-Kaap tourism experience.

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