ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the challenges that face a particular group of these emerging tourism small firms or small, medium and micro-enterprises in South Africa. It also focuses on the segment of emerging black-owned tour operators within a context of the growth of the distinctive segment of "township tourism." The chapter provides an essential background context for the presentation and analysis of the results of a survey, which was completed in 2004, of black-owned travel and tour operating enterprises based in the metropolitan areas of Gauteng province, at the heart of which is Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city. It deals with favela tourism in urban Brazil township tourism also involve taking visitors to areas of poverty within the urban townships of South Africa. Belatedly, the research agenda of tourism is beginning to acknowledge the importance of understanding issues around entrepreneurship and small enterprise development as well as tourism policy-making.
