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SPORTS TOURISM AND PERCEIVED SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT IN KENYA: THE CASE OF MACHAKOS COUNTY
(Elsevier, 2017-08)
Purpose – Smaller events have been favoured by many commentators in sports research because mega events have been criticised for failing to have an aggregate positive advantage to local communities, especially in developing ...
The ‘romance’ of mining in light of tourism: A case study of soapstone in Tabaka, Kisii County, Kenya
(Association for Tourism and Leisure Education, 2015)
Mineral products are at the core of today’s civilized world that we live in. The manufacturing sector, the high technology industries and even the resource industries are all dependent, in one way or the other on the mining ...
Tourism, millennium development goals and climate change in Kenya
(2014)
Tourism growth in the last century has been remarkable with a record of 1Billion global arrival
recorded in 2012 and revenues at a tune of USD 1,075 billion. Tourism is also recognized as an
important sector in achieving ...
Adoption of green marketing practises by hotels in Mombasa County, Kenya
(2015)
This study examined adoption of green marketing practises by hotels in Mombasa
County, Kenya. To better understand this subject, the study sought to achieve three
specific objectives; to determine the drivers for adoption ...
Climate change and tourism adaptation: Literature review
(2015)
Purpose – This paper reviews published English literature on tourism adaptation to climate
change. Climate change remains a challenge in the 21st centaury and beyond. Climate sensitive
industries like tourism are vulnerable ...
A review of the “Tourism- Environmental Conflict Signifier” logic as constructed by the Kenyan press in coverage of environmental conflicts.
(Language & Ecology, 2016)
most vocalized environmental conflicts have occurred within
situational contexts of tourism communities. However, the marked insignificance of
environmental issues in determining conflicts makes it imperative to question ...
The ecotourism metaphor and environmental sustainability in Kenya
(2015)
While to some extent there is disharmony in defining the term ecotourism, most tourism research agrees that
the eco prefix is a definite pointer to environmental or natural resource management as a core value to the
concept. ...
TOURISM MUST ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE
(2018-02-22)
Climate Change Impact Representation In Kenya's News Media
(2014)
Today the questions of adaptation and mitigation to
climate change risks are arching their way out to
community platforms in an interpretive flow through
various communication modes that shape public opinion and
mediate ...
Climate change policy-making process in Kenya: deliberative inclusionary processes in play
(International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2017)
Abstract Purpose – There is a growing recognition in Kenya that citizens should play a role in contributing to policy formation. This is a shift from a conventional approach where the elite in society or selected few would ...