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Nature and wildlife tourism
Nature and event tourism, Our research has segmented, and profile visitors to selected national parks in the country identified visitors’ interpretation needs and advocated for the important role that national parks play in educating visitors to encourage conservation efforts. Other notable projects include investigating the biltong- and trophy hunting industry as well as…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trees/culinarytourism
Culinary tourism
Culinary tourism Our research focusing on the culinary festival and event visitors includes marketing and economic impact analyses as well as the markets information preferences, their environmentally friendly behaviour, motivations, memorable experiences and behavioural intentions. This research makes valuable theoretical and practical…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trees/marinetourism
Marine tourism
Marine Tourism South Africa’s tourism sector is intent on offering domestic and international travellers world-class marine and coastal tourism opportunities. These opportunities will expand the options available to travellers and increase the socio-economic value of tourism to South Africans. While marine tourism is one of the fastest-growing…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trees/resort_tourism
Resort tourism
Resort tourism Over centuries resorts across the world have played a pivotal role in tourism and can even be regarded as the backbone of tourism as we know and comprehend it today. South Africa is no different, and the country has numerous resorts attracting thousands of visitors annually. Hence there is strong competition among the different…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/tourism-research-economics-environs-and-society-trees/national-and-international-funded-research
National and international funded research projects
TREES has been involved in a number of national and international research projects, obtaining external funding as part of research consortia. National and international research projects continue to be a priority for TREES and extremely valuable. They promote internationalisation, networking, research collaborations, multidisciplinary research…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trees/green-bubbles-rise
Green Bubbles RISE
The most relevant internationally funded research project is the Green Bubbles project, an European Union (EU)-funded project under Horizon 2020 MSCA RISE actions (see also NWU news article on: http://news.nwu.ac.za/buoyant-nwu-pools-expertise-sustainable-diving-tourism). The project was a consortium of partners from countries including Italy,…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trees/ndt-project-tourism-sector-demand-and-supply
NDT project: Tourism sector demand and supply
Towards the end of 2020, South Africa's National Department of Tourism (NDT) opened a call for bids from South African higher education and research institutions to form part of the national department's research panel. The bid submitted by Prof Elmarie Slabbert (Director of TREES) and Dr Tafadzwa Matiza (Senior Lecturer in TREES) under the…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/tourism-research-economics-environs-and-society-trees/pubulished-research-outputs
Pubulished research outputs
Over several years, TREES has established itself as a leading tourism research entity that is contributing to alleviating the scarce skills in tourism research in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa (through post-graduate studies), as well as growing the field of knowledge through published research. Three programmes have been identified to form…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/TRADE
About us
TRADE is a dedicated research focus area within the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the North-West University (NWU), with expertise in Development Economics, International Trade, Applied Economics, Financial Markets, Supply Chain & Transport Economics As an established and multi-campus research entity, we have a presence across…, OUR VISION, Driving impactful economic research that shapes policy and promotes sustainable growth locally and globally. TRADE Visual, OUR MISSION, Through our work, we aim to support NWU, local communities, government, and the private sector in fostering a more inclusive, competitive, and productive economy — advancing knowledge, shaping policy, and promoting sustainable economic growth locally, regionally, and globally.http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/TRADE/research
Research
TRADE Research, Research Focuses, Guided by national priorities and the research strengths of our members, TRADE has identified and implemented the following five sub-research fields, supported by ongoing special projects: This multidisciplinary research area focuses on the structural and human dimensions of economic development, with strong emphasis on both macroeconomic and…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/directors-welcoming
DIRECTORS WELCOMING
As Faculty of Economic Management Sciences (F-EMS), we believe that we have a significant contribution to make in the social, economic and educational development of both our internal and external communities. We further believe that this contribution should be mutually beneficial. In other words, both the faculty and its students on the one hand…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/grade-12-focus-day-programme
GRADE 12 FOCUS DAY PROGRAMME
On the 06 th of March, it was ‘Grade 12 Focus Day Programme’ whereby several schools from around Mahikeng and Mmabatho were invited to Mahikeng Campus. The purpose of this event was to mobilise high school learners to consider NWU as the university of their choice in future. The Tourism Society was invited to take part and market the School of…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/assist-student-campaign
ASSIST A STUDENT CAMPAIGN
COVID-19 pandemic left a lot of South Africans unemployed. One of BA Honours Tourism Management students ended up in a vulnerable and financially stranded situation after the parent was on unpaid leave due to lockdown regulations. As a result, the parent was unable to send money to support the student, with either transport fare, accommodation,…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/microsoft-teams-training
MICROSOFT TEAMS TRAINING
Mrs Matilda Kutumela went out of her way to teach her colleagues to install and to administer the Microsoft Teams app, as part of CE teaching and learning initiative. The Teams tutorial was provided to colleagues via skype on the 10 th Of September 2020. The Teams tutorial was conducted to assist School of Tourism Mahikeng staff in familiarising…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/womans-month-digital-card
WOMAN'S MONTH DIGITAL CARD
To acknowledge students’ determination during the 1 st semester of the COVID-19 period and instill an act of appreciation towards women who generally impacted positively on the Tourism students’ studies during that time, School of Tourism Management in Mahikeng designed a digital Womens’ month card and sent out to students, who also passed to…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/community-engagement-during-covid-19
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID-19
This year has most certainly been the definition of Annus Horribilis, and for the school’s Community Engagement portfolio, it has also been a challenging time. Around 90% of the school’s planned projects for the year had to be placed on ice for the time being or postponed to next year due to the situation we are currently facing with the pandemic…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/empowering-through-motivation
EMPOWERING THROUGH MOTIVATION
The School for Accounting Sciences has run numerous community engagement projects, that had an immense impact on the students and the community at large. Some projects include: -Financial management and personal finance videos to the public - Online campaign on how to excel during online learning - Online SME Tax information videos - Student…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/support-old-age-home
SUPPORT TO AN OLD AGE HOME
On Saturday, 18 July 2020, our colleagues from the North-West University Potchefstroom campus from FEMS visited the SAVF Ons Hulde Old age home in Potchefstroom. This initiative was as part of community engagement project at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). The purpose of this community…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/community-engagement-news/nourishing-meal-needy