The Tourism Management Division successfully hosted three PhD (Tourism Management) oral defences in October 2014.

Prof Jarkko Saarinen from the University of Oulu in Finland presented two candidates for whom he acted as supervisor. Ms Limpho Lekaota, who is from Lesotho, did her PhD on ‘Perceptions on local communities role and awareness in rural tourism development:  a case study from Lesotho’. A thesis entitled ‘Towards an integrative tourism development framework for local communities in Namibia’ was defended by Mr Erling Kavita, who is from Namibia.                                                                     

Prof Ernie Heath from the Department of Business Management was supervisor for Ms Elizabeth Kruger, a staff member in the Tourism Management Division. She successfully defended her thesis entitled ‘Spectators contribution to the environmental dimension of sustainable event sports tourism’.