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  • Students provide valuable insights into niche tourism markets for Gauteng

    Posted on December 09, 2013

    Travelling to Johannesburg to present your key research findings and strategic proposals to experienced industry stakeholders would be a daunting challenge for most students. However, Tourism Management honours students, as part of their destination marke

  • Students contribute towards saving the rhino

    Posted on November 27, 2013

    Students of the Tourism Management Division hosted two Save the Rhino events. The first was an exhibition in the Merensky Library of the University of Pretoria in October where ceramic rhinos, painted by students and lecturers, were showcased. The second

  • Research project on skills development framework for the sports tourism

    Posted on November 26, 2013

    Dr Felicit

  • A focus on Sports Tourism Skills Development

    Posted on November 22, 2013

    Elizabeth Kruger, of the Tourism Management Division, represented a team of researchers who shared their research findings on skills gaps in current sports training and opportunities available in South Africa.

  • UP to affirm South Africa as a top tourist destination

    Posted on November 05, 2013

    Leading academic in the field of national tourism destination competitiveness, Prof Geoffrey Crouch, of La Trobe University in Australia, recently visited UP to consult on the research project awarded to the Tourism Management Division by the National Dep

  • Strong educational links between Azerbaijan and SA discussed

    Posted on September 13, 2013

    Talks about the development of strong educational links between the republics of Azerbaijan and South Africa took place at the Tourism Management Division in the Faculty Economic and Management Sciences. Prof Dr Jafar Jafarov, Rector of the Azerbaijan

  • Expert talks about importance of academics

    Posted on August 26, 2013

    Dr Keith Mason, Head of the Air Transport Management Group and Director of the Business Travel Research Centre at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, recently visited the Tourism Management Division of the Faculty of Economic and Management Scienc

  • Research on a model for matching tourism supply and demand

    Posted on July 31, 2013

    Prof Berendien Lubbe, Head of the Tourism Management Division, recently presented a paper at the International Travel and Tourism Research Association's annual conference in Kansas City, USA. Based on the University of Pretoria's Memorandum of Understa

  • Research project on skills development framework for sports tourism

    Posted on July 26, 2013

    Dr Felicit

  • Students develop a strategic and operational plan for a hotel

    Posted on June 27, 2013

    In 2013 the Division of Tourism Management partnered with City Lodge Lynnwood, to act as the case study institution for the modules Strategic Tourism Management and Key Aspects of Hospitality Management which forms part of the BComHons (Tourism Management

  • Research on the future of travel management companies

    Posted on June 07, 2013

    A topic receiving a lot of attention in the tourism industry lately is that of travel management companies and their future. This topic is currently being researched by Mr Ross Thompson, a MCom (Tourism Management) student in the Tourism Management Divisi

  • Generating income for SANParks through tourism

    Posted on April 24, 2013

    Drs Felicite Fairer Wessels and Anneli Douglas from the Tourism Management Division presented a research poster at the 11th Annual Savanna Science Networking Meeting, that was held in the Kruger National Park in March 2013. The theme of the Savanna mee

  • Matching tourism supply and demand

    Posted on April 24, 2013

    Staff members of the Tourism Management Division participated in a research colloquium hosted by the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on 12 March 2013.

  • Tourism Management takes students

    Posted on March 05, 2013

    The Tourism Management Division has a North-South-South Student Mobility Programme and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Oulu in Finland. The MoU was signed in 2005 and focuses on collaboration in the fields of tourism managemen

  • National Department of Tourism makes bursaries available for postgraduate studies in Tourism Management

    Posted on March 05, 2013

    The Memorandum of Understanding signed between the National Department of Tourism (NDT) and the University of Pretoria in 2012, establish a formal basis of cooperation in support of tourism research and skills development activities between the NDT and UP

  • Research on purchasing airline tickets

    Posted on March 04, 2013

    When is the

  • Tourism Management puts on a new coat

    Posted on February 28, 2013

    Many changes have taken place at Tourism Management. The Tourism Management Division is now situated in offices on the fourth floor of the Economic and Management Sciences Building. As a division of the Department of Marketing Management, the BCom (Touris

  • New Head for the Tourism Management Division

    Posted on February 28, 2013

    Professor Berendien Lubbe has been appointed as the new Head of the Tourism Management Division. Prof Lubbe received a C-rating from the National Research Foundation in 2013 for research done in the emerging field of corporate travel management.

  • Postdoctoral fellow appointed in the Tourism Management Division

    Posted on February 28, 2013

    Dr Svetlana Surovitskikh has been appointed as postdoctoral fellow in the Tourism Management Division. Her research focuses on the South African aviation policy in Africa, covering the link between air passenger traffic flows and aviation policy, particul

  • Prizes in cash and kind

    Posted on November 22, 2012

    The Department of Tourism Management held their annual awards evening at the Sanlam Auditorium on 6 November 2012. At the function, prizes in cash and kind to the value of R37 000 were awarded to 24 deserving students.

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