Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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-perceived impacts, risks, vulnerability, and response strategies: A case study of Mombasa coastal tourism, Kenya
(2015)Climate change policies are advancing, at least rhetorically. These policies are made through complex processes of interactions among stakeholders whose opinions are shaped by historical experiences, beliefs, awareness ... -
Tourism adaptation to climate change in the lenses of sustainability: Sustainable-adaptation
(2015)Climate change is considered one of the greatest challenges for humanity in the 21st century and beyond. Climate sensitive industries including tourism are vulnerable. In efforts to counter climate change, mitigation ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Impact of HIV/AIDS on Hotel Staff Productivity in Kenya: A Survey of Selected Hotels in North Coast
(2015)The gist of this paper was to find out how HIV/AIDS pandemic influence the productivity of employees in Kenya’s North Coast. Although major strides have been made by the government to prevent the scourge, it is evident ... -
Perceptions of tourism students towards career choice in the Kenyan tourism industry: a comparative study of Moi University and Kenya Utalii College
(2015)A number of researches investigating on tourism students’ career choices and course of study selection have been widely documented. However, few studies have been carried out focusing on the process and context in which ... -
INVESTIGATION OF PHYSICAL LAWS OF MOTION AND HUMAN FACTORS ON ROAD ACCIDENTS IN UASIN-GISHU AND BUNGOMA COUNTIES - KENYA
(2016)Road accidents in the Transport Industry are a threat to public health and national development in many developing countries. It contributes to poverty by deaths, injuries, disabilities, grief, lost of productivity and ... -
ROLE OF ROAD GEOMETRY ON ROOAD ACCIDENTS IN UASIN GISHU AND BUNGOMA COUNTIES IN KENYA
(2016)Road accidents in the Transport Industry are a threat to public health and national development in many developing countries. It contributes to poverty by deaths, injuries, disabilities, grief, lost of productivity and ... -
Use of Concept Map Scaffolds to Promote Adaptive E-Learning in Web-Based System
(2016)Scaffolds are a good method of implementing self-regulated learning. Use of prior knowledge makes the learner to understand a topic better. Learner adaptation enables a learner to be presented with content that matches ... -
Organizational Implementation of Information Systems Innovations (OIISI) Framework was developed in the context of Universities in Kenya
(2016)Organizational Implementation of Information Systems Innovations (OIISI) Framework was developed in the context of Universities in Kenya and can be used to understand the implementation of Information Systems (IS) Innovations ... -
Surviving liberalization: the cooperative movement in Kenya
(2016)The Cooperative Facility for Africa (CoopAfrica) is a regional technical cooperation programme of the ILO contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the promotion of decent work in Africa by ... -
Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals A contribution to the post-2015 development debate
(2016)As we approach the Millennium Development Goals target date of 2015, regional, national and online thematic consultations have been taking place to frame the post-2015 global development agenda. A consensus on goals, ... -
Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work
(2016)After the financial crisis in 2007-2008, some regions and countries, notably in Asia and Latin America, witnessed encouraging and rapid signs of recovery in their real economy, in terms of employment and poverty reduction. ... -
Reinventing the wheel? African cooperatives in a liberalized economic environment
(2016)Cooperative development in Africa can be said to have traversed two main eras: the era of state control and that of liberalization. The first era lasted up to the early 1990s and saw the origin and substantial growth of ...
