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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 ...
Hospitality Employment; Policies and Practices in Hotels in Kenya
(Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2015-11-18)
A study on Kenya’s hospitality industry indicates that, about 64 percent of jobs are either semi skilled or unskilled. This comprises of about 6 percent in managerial, 8 percent in supervisory, 22 percent with craft while ...
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 ...
Understanding the travel motivation among youth travelers in Kenya: the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ paradigm
(African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017)
The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth understanding of the factors that motivate youth
travel in Kenya using the ‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ paradigm of travel motivation. The study adopted a
questionnaire survey ...
Inhibition Of Bovine Mastitis Pathogens By Bacteriocins Produced By Bacillus Spp Isolated From Rastrineobola Argentea (Omena)
(2015)
Bacteriocins offer an advantage over antibiotics in that they target very specific organisms and they are generally regarded as safe for humans. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify bacteriocin-producing ...
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. ...