Community perceptions on tourism development in South Africa: The case of developing a tourism route in the City of Mbombela Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Tourism is used as a community development tool. It has been incorporated into national plans. In South Africa, it local economic (LED) The LED strategy for the City of Mbombela Local Municipality includes tourism route in former Umjindi Municipality. Through application descriptive research design, we use Likert scale to investigate perceptions around area where proposed. A sampling frame was developed by listing all 224 households who live section road covered route. From frame, simple random sample 89 drawn using SPSS number generator. structured questionnaire solicit respondents concerning economic, socio-cultural, environmental and infrastructural attributes Although they need be interpreted directionally, most socio-cultural were significant. Of infrastructure electricity water supply Generally, had positive Therefore, strongly recommend with caveat that sustainability issues paid attention to.