![]() ![]() ![]() In the work of tour operators such as ‘This is Hillbrow’ or ‘Past Experience’, I identified attempts to change place perceptions. In my original paper, I focused on place-making initiatives that addressed negative place representations of such neighbourhoods as Hillbrow, Yeoville and Brea as dangerous, no-go areas that are better avoided. Hoogendoorn and Giddy in large parts confirm my 2014 observations that inner city tourism in Johannesburg is on the rise, with an empirical focus on five tour operators as well as survey research on participating tourists. My paper charted the emergence of new inner city tourism in Johannesburg in the context of urban regeneration and I focused on three tour operators in particular, asking about their intentions, the impact of their activities and the potential role of tourism in urban regeneration of Johannesburg. In their recent paper “Does it look like a slum? Walking Tours in the Johannesburg Inner City”, Hoogendoorn and Giddy ( 2017) present findings from their research on inner city tourism in South Africa’s largest city that I observed and first discussed in Urban Forum in 2014 in a paper titled: “Slum Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Touring Inner Johannesburg” (Frenzel 2014). ![]()
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