Being a change agent in a (post-) COVID South Africa

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

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Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6543-9.ch085 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 1474-1488

Author(s):

Ezendu Ariwa ◽

Carsten Martin Syvertsen

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Chaos Theory ◽

Change Agent ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Market Segments ◽

Digital Enterprise ◽

Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

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Making Community-Based Adaptation a Reality: Different Conceptualisations, Different Politics

Human Geography ◽

10.1177/194277861901200104 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 50-63

Author(s):

Mary Galvin

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Change Agent ◽

Local Communities ◽

Community Based ◽

Research Project ◽

Technical Practice ◽

Community Based Adaptation

Community-based adaptation (CBA) is criticised for ignoring power realities and damaging the very communities it aims to assist. This paper shows how CBA is not a homogenous, technical practice but is itself a political endeavour. It suggests that there are five types of CBA, based on actors’ conceptualisation of communities, approach to development, and interest in either transition or transformation. It then focuses on how the “change agent” type of CBA can overcome this critique. It draws on findings from a three year, multi-disciplinary, participatory research project on water and CBA in four local communities in South Africa.

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Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

International Journal of Green Computing ◽

10.4018/jgc.2010010105 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 40-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ezendu Ariwa ◽

Carsten Martin Syvertsen

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Chaos Theory ◽

Change Agent ◽

Future Research ◽

Market Segments ◽

Digital Enterprise ◽

Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

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Time and Latitude in South Africa

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100026816 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 27-38

Author(s):

J. Hers

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Cape Town ◽

Astronomical Observations ◽

Royal Observatory ◽

The Republic ◽

Astronomical Determination ◽

Limited Accuracy ◽

Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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Indirect Rule in South Africa

10.1017/upo9781580467421 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

J. C. Myers

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Indirect Rule

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Combining Professional Interests and Travel: People to People Citizen Ambassador Program

Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders ◽

10.1044/gics1.2.47 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 47-54

Author(s):

Alex Johnson ◽

Amanda Hitchins

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Health Education ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

Exchange Program

Abstract This article summarizes a series of trips sponsored by People to People, a professional exchange program. The trips described in this report were led by the first author of this article and include trips to South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Israel. Each of these trips included delegations of 25 to 50 speech-language pathologists and audiologists who participated in professional visits to learn of the health, education, and social conditions in each country. Additionally, opportunities to meet with communication disorders professionals, students, and persons with speech, language, or hearing disabilities were included. People to People, partnered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), provides a meaningful and interesting way to learn and travel with colleagues.

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