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Beating Odds in Post Pandemic Times: Lessons from World Rally Championship 2021
No full textThe Novel Corona virus pandemic has brought unprecedented impacts on different sectors of economies in countries across the globe. Sports tourism being the worst hit. Sports tourism events are important vehicles of development and mostly embedded in the development plans of many countries. They have been associated with promotion of socio-economic well-being to the host communities. Despite the wide spread of the pandemic, most countries are on the road to recoveries by adopting resilient measures to revamp tourism industry from the shocks of the pandemic. Kenya hosted the World Rally Championship in 2021 as a post pandemic measure to promote sports and tourism industries. The purpose of this paper is to bring to the prominence the benefits of hosting this event in Kenya amidst the pandemic to the host community. The paper adopted a qualitative research design where by 12 key sports and tourism stakeholders were interviewed during the event hosting period. The results indicated that despite the pandemic, the event generated both social and economic benefits to the hosts. Key recommendations were made
Blockchain as a Solution of Information Security and Data Privacy Issues: Review
No full textThe growth of technology has seen development of smart devices that are connected to each other giving rise to device-mesh technology. This has given rise to many owners of these devices sharing data through various web applications such as online marketplaces. The protection of data is paramount for every organization dealing with such data. An evaluation of Blockchain technology as a solution to data privacy is studied. The study concludes that though blockchain is the technology to pursue forsecuring and protection data, it has numerous challenges and limitations towards data privacy. More research is needed to guarantee an absolute data privacy protection
Analysis of Copper Deposits in Maragwa Location in Tharaka Nithi County – Kenya
No full textA primary obstacle to some developing countries like Kenya is the reliance on agriculture when they are endowed with bulk of some mineral resources like copper. The economies of some developed and developing countries are usually supported by the exploitation of these natural resources. In Kenya, few copper deposits have been identified but there is no established copper industry. In this study, new deposits from Maragwa location were investigated with the aim of determining their suitability for extraction. During sampling, Kamwathu and Maragwa sub-locations in Maragwa location in Tharaka Nithi County Kenya were identified. Five deposits from each sub location were identified. In each deposit, a pick mattock was used to dig and breaks the mineral rocks. About a kilogram of minerals was obtained at 30 cm deep, and another one at one meter depth. The samples were separately labelled as Level A and B. The samples were analysed using XRD and AAS for mineralogical and elemental composition respectively. The common copper mineral was chalcopyrite minerals with a mean mineral abundant of 5.12. The mean copper composition ranged between 1.76±0.19 and 8.42±1.35, with an average mean of 4.46±0.45 percent. The mean copper at level A and B was 4.47±0.7 and 4.44±06 percent. Copper minerals distributed uniformly with the depth. The deposits had chemical composition greater than the cut - off grade of 0.4 - 1.0 percent required for commercial extraction
Employee Retention Strategies
No full textEmployee retention strategies refer to the organizational policies aimed at retaining employees, reducing turnover and attrition, and ensuring employee engagement. The main goal is to meet the expectations of employees without losing sight of the company’s goals to ensure maximum return on investment. The hospitality and tourism industry faces the challenge of employing and retaining employees more than other industries. This could also be attributed to poor work conditions, business failures in some sectors of economies, global financial crises and pandemics such as COVID-19. There has been a competitive shift in the business environment, not only in the business world but also in the mindset of employees who are willing to switch whenever they are dissatisfied with any aspect of their job (Bitok, Nzioka and Munyiri, 2019)
