Posted on December 08, 2015
The Tourism Management Division in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences hosted a Tourism Field Research Training Course early in November 2015.
Posted on November 06, 2015
Prof Ernie Heath, from the Department of Business Management at UP, was the facilitator of the Tourism Commission, at the inaugural Small Towns Conference with the theme, 'Small towns, new futures' that was held in Bloemfontein from 22 to 23 October 2015.
Posted on October 28, 2015
Mr Otto de Vries, CEO of the Association of South African Travel Agents (Asata), recently presented a guest lecture to the BCom Honours students in Tourism Management. His lecture focused on the future of business and retail travel agents, and he assured students that there is indeed still a role...
Posted on October 20, 2015
The Tourism Management Division hosted Prof Dimitris Koutoulas from the University of Patras in Greece during September 2015.
Posted on October 05, 2015
In a recent study by Prof Berendien Lubbe and her team at UP, researchers set out to determine South Africa's competitiveness as a tourism destination by finding out how the country is performing against its competitors.
Posted on September 22, 2015
Prof Ernie Heath from the Department of Business Management co-presented a paper and chaired two sessions at the 2015 ATLAS Africa Conference, with the theme ‘Tourism and inclusive growth in developing economies’, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Posted on July 23, 2015
The 15th Building Excellence in Sustainable Tourism Education Network (BEST EN) Conference was hosted with great success by the Faculty of Economic and Management Science’s Tourism Management Division at the Protea Hotel Kruger Gate from 17 to 21 June 2015. The conference was organised by...
Posted on July 01, 2015
The Tourism Management Division – the smallest division in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences – proudly conferred four doctoral degrees at UP’s at 2015 Autumn Graduation Ceremony.
Posted on May 05, 2015
A very successful inaugural Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference with the theme ‘Promoting sustainable tourism development through the involvement and participation of the youth’ was held in Mauritius from 23 to 24 April 2015. During the conference, which was hosted by the...
Posted on April 15, 2015
Students in the Tourism Management Division recently visited Soshanguve and the Tswaing Crater as part of their Sustainable Ecotourism module, lectured by Prof Felicite Fairer-Wessels.
Posted on April 10, 2015
The Tourism Management Division presented the final results of a two-year research study, entitled A Model to Measure South Africa’s Tourism Competitiveness at the National Department of Tourism’s annual Tourism Research Seminar. The event is hosted to showcase funded research...
Posted on March 02, 2015
The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) recognised Prof Ernie Heath, from the Department of Business Management, for his role in advancing tourism as a force for peace and socio-economic upliftment in South and southern Africa since the mid-eighties. Prof Heath again shared...
Posted on February 19, 2015
Recent research in the Tourism Management Division scrutinised the use of technology to align the needs of corporate travel managers with the functions of travel management companies.
Posted on December 10, 2014
The Tourism Management Division in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences recently hosted two international visitors. Prof Jarkko Saarinen from the University of Oulu in Finland and Dr Alessandro Inversini from the University of Bournemouth in the UK shared their expertise with the...
Posted on December 03, 2014
The Tourism Management Division successfully hosted three PhD (Tourism Management) oral defences in October 2014.
Posted on April 09, 2014
During 2014, the Tourism Management Division hosted two Save the Rhino events. The first was an exhibition in the Merensky Library of the University of Pretoria, where ceramic rhinos painted by students and lecturers were showcased. The second event was a
Posted on April 07, 2014
At the recent 17th Hamburg Aviation Conference in Germany, Prof Berendien Lubbe, of the Tourism Management Division in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, warned that the number of unredeemed passenger airline miles is reaching what some have
Posted on March 26, 2014
Two masters degree students in Tourism Management had the opportunity to share their research projects with stakeholders from the tourism industry during a research seminar hosted by the National Department of Tourism in March 2014. The student projects f
Posted on March 17, 2014
A research project done on mobile devices as a tourism distribution channel and the perceptions of visitors to national parks in South Africa found that visitors are not too keen to use the SANParks mobile website. In so far as the extent of the use of mo
Posted on February 27, 2014
A pilot study was conducted by Prof Felicite Fairer-Wessels of the Tourism Management Division amongst selected non-profit visitor information centres (VIC) to determine whether the information managers have sufficient knowledge management capabilities in
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