Generating income for SANParks through tourism
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 24 Apr 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 meeting was “Savanna ecosystems in times of change: advances in adaptive management, ecological understanding and social connectivity.”
Matching tourism supply and demand – A new model
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 24 Apr 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 “north-south-south” with a student mobility programme
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 05 Mar 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 management and environmental studies. The collaboration has resulted in research publications, co-edited books and student exchange programmes.
National Department of Tourism makes bursaries available for postgraduate studies in Tourism Management
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 05 Mar 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. The NDT has made funds available to provide financial assistance to a number of postgraduate students at honours, master’s and doctoral level in pursuing tourism-related research studies commissioned by the NDT.
Research on purchasing airline tickets
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 04 Mar 2013
When is the ‘best’ time to purchase an airline ticket in order to get the best price at the least effort?
This topic was researched by Mr Ogaga Udjo, one of the top BComHons (Tourism Management) students of 2012. The research was done under the guidance of Prof Berendien Lubbe, Head of the Tourism Management Division, and Dr Anneli Douglas, a staff member in the Division.
Tourism Management puts on a new coat
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 28 Feb 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 (Tourism Management) programme has been adopted in order to prepare potential leaders for the tourism industry and to strengthen the Division’s research focus on the numerous developments within this dynamic industry.
New Head for the Tourism Management Division
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 28 Feb 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
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 28 Feb 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, particularly the state of African air transport and air services liberalisation.
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