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2026

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D-Index
66
Citations
15064
World Ranking
983
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Christian M. Rogerson is affiliated with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Their research concentrates primarily within the Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Transportation, Political Science and International Relations, and Urban Studies.

The research topics covered by Rogerson include diverse aspects of tourism research, tourism, volunteerism, and development, cruise tourism development and management, local economic development and planning, sport and mega-event impacts, migration, ethnicity and economy, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Rogerson has contributed extensively to academic publications, with numerous papers appearing in prominent venues such as GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites, African Journal of Hospitality Tourism and Leisure, Studia Periegetica, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and the Bulletin of Geography Socio-economic Series.

Notable recent papers by Rogerson include:

  • COVID-19 TOURISM IMPACTS IN SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY RESPONSES, 2020, GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites
  • COVID-19 and African tourism research agendas, 2020, Development Southern Africa
  • COVID-19 and Changing Tourism Demand: Research Review and Policy Implications for South Africa, 2021, African Journal of Hospitality Tourism and Leisure

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rogerson include Jayne M. Rogerson, Ruth Link-Gelles, Amanda B. Payne, Karthik Natarajan, and Malini B. DeSilva.

Best Publications

  • Pro-Poor local economic development in South Africa: The role of pro-poor tourism

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • The impact of the South African government's SMME programmes: a ten-year review (1994–2003)

    Christian M Rogerson

  • Volunteer tourism: The case of Habitat for Humanity South Africa

    H. Stoddart;C.M. Rogerson

  • Tracking SMME Development in South Africa: Issues of Finance, Training and the Regulatory Environment

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • Tourism and development issues in contemporary South Africa

    Christian Rogerson;Gustav Visser

  • Geographies of tourism development and planning

    Jarkko Saarinen;Christian M. Rogerson;C. Michael Hall

  • Urban poverty and the informal economy in South Africa's economic heartland

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • Tourism, business linkages and small enterprise development in South Africa

    Marié kirsten;Christian M Rogerson

  • Local economic development in the developing world : the experience of Southern Africa

    Etienne Louis Nel;Christian Rogerson

  • In search of the African miracle: debates on successful small enterprise development in Africa

    C.M Rogerson

  • Local economic development in Africa: Global context and research directions

    Christian M Rogerson;Jayne M Rogerson

  • Urban tourism and small tourism enterprise development in Johannesburg: The case of township tourism

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • Tourism Routes as Vehicles for Local Economic Development in South Africa: The Example of the Magaliesberg Meander

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • Creative Industries and Urban Tourism: South African Perspectives

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • Urban tourism in the developing world: The case of Johannesburg

    Christian M Rogerson

  • Transnationalism and Non-South African Entrepreneurs in South Africa's Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise (SMME) Economy

    Sally Peberdy;Christian M. Rogerson

  • Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: perspectives beyond 2015

    Jarkko Saarinen;Christian M. Rogerson

  • South Africa's informal economy

    Eleanor Preston-Whyte;Christian Myles Rogerson

  • Tourism–agriculture linkages in rural South Africa: evidence from the accommodation sector

    Christian M. Rogerson

  • Poverty and sustainable cities in South Africa: The role of urban cultivation

    Julian May;Christian M. Rogerson

  • COVID-19 Tourism impacts in South Africa: Government and industry responses

    Christian M. Rogerson;Jayne M. Rogerson

  • Planning Local Economic Development

    Christian M. Rogerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Etienne Nel
Etienne Nel University of Otago
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey
Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
Stewart Barr
Stewart Barr University of Exeter
Alan A. Lew
Alan A. Lew Northern Arizona University
David Bruce Weaver
David Bruce Weaver Queensland University of Technology
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo

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