TOURISM CONSTRAINTS OF UMLAZI TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS ...

""-To further support their choice, the respondents had to state their knowledge oftourism destinations. Forty seven percent ofthe respondents agreed that they knowquite a large number oftourism destinations in KwaZulu-Natal. 67 percent oftherespondents do not know a large number oftourism destinations in the other eightprovinces. 49 percent of the respondents do not know where to get informationabout tourism. This information is found in Table 2.1 below.TABLE 4.1KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TOURISMKnowledge About Tourism Strongly Agree Undecided Disagree StronglyAgreeDisagreeWhat Towism is21% 46.3% 10% 11% 11.5%Towism destinations in KZN12% 35% 8% 25% 20%Towism destinations in other Provinces2% 19.5% 11.5% 18.% 49%Where infonnation is obtainable 16% 25.5% 9% 11.5% 32%Importance oftourism 39.5% 35% 8% 7.5% 10%The responses show that although the respondents know some tourism destinationsin KwaZulu-Natal, most of them do not know tourism destinations in the otherprovinces. They also do not know where to get information about tourism. Most ofthose who know where to get information about tourism destinations mentioned thetourist function in Durban as a place where they could get information. Othersmentioned newspapers and magazines, libraries and one even mentioned theINTERNET. The total of74 percent ofthe respondents regard tourism as havingan important role to play in their lives.56