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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
An enhanced framework for regional tourism sustainable Adaptation to climate change
(2014)
Tourismis not only contributing to climate change but also vulnerable to risks induced by changing climate regime.
Sea level rise, extreme events, loss of biodiversity, water stress among other direct and indirect impacts ...
From Davos, Switzerland to Mombasa, Kenya: a position paper on the adoption of the ‘Davos declaration’ by hotels
(2015)
Climate change has been identified as a major challenge in the achievement of sustainable development especially for developing countries like Kenya. There has been a wide acknowledgement that there is a need for long-term ...