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ASSESSING THE MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FREE STATE SECTION OF THE MALOTI DRAKENSBERG ROUTE
Get PDFPublished ThesisTourism has the potential to have a positive impact on economic growth and
development. Tourism should also benefit small towns and rural areas, hence the
increased emphasis on the development of tourism routes. The concept of ‘route
tourism’ refers to an initiative designed to link together a group of tourism activities
and attractions under a unified theme and to promote local tourism (Rogerson,
2007:50).
Most tourism routes are managed by forums that are responsible for managing and
marketing the route. South Africa has a number of prominent tourism routes of which
the Maloti Drakensberg Route (MDR) is among the longest and most well-known. As
a substantial section of the MDR runs through the Free State Province (stretching
from Harrismith to Zastron), much-needed tourists are being brought to smaller Free
State towns. The aim of this investigation was to assess the marketing and
management effectiveness of the Maloti Drakensberg Route Forum (MDRF),
specifically for the Free State section of the MDR. This study incorporated both a qualitative and a quantitative research approach. A
questionnaire was administered to 51 tourists and 27 product owners on the Free
State section of the MDR. The findings indicated that the overall marketing and
management activities of the MDRF were not effective. One of the main
shortcomings was effective communication between the MDRF and the product
owners, which resulted in many management- and marketing-related frustrations.
Other issues raised by both product owners and tourists included inadequate
infrastructure such as roads, signage and rest stops along the MDR
A Tourism Development Plan For The South African War Battlefields Route In The Central Karoo
Get PDFDissertationTourism development is an important imperative in the development of especially rural areas; hence the focus of the National Department of Tourism on developing areas with rich natural, cultural and historical resources. Considering the emphasis on the development of tourism in South Africa, it is important that tourism development plans be established for the different tourism sectors of South Africa.
Dark tourism, which involves travelling to places of war and destruction, is experiencing an increase in popularity worldwide. This also applies to South Africa. Battlefield tourism, as a component of dark tourism, offers tourists the opportunity to experience sites or destinations associated with war. The increased interest in the South African War (1899-1902), both nationally and internationally, provides numerous tourism development opportunity for local areas.
The most well-known battlefield route in South Africa is the KwaZulu-Natal Battlefields Route. Although there are numerous South African battlefield sites in the Karoo, no attempts have been made to develop a comprehensive battlefield route. Thus, the main objective of the investigation was to construct a tourism development plan for the South African War Battlefields Route in the central Karoo. The tourism development plan was informed by an empirical study conducted amongst various stakeholders on the proposed route. The main findings indicate a need for the development of the route and the establishment of a South African War Battlefields Route Destination Marketing Organisation (DMO)
Dark tourism: Growth potential of niche tourism in the Free State Province, South Africa
Get PDFArticleDark tourism involves tourists visiting sites of death, disaster and
depravity. Well known dark tourism sites include Chernobyl in the
Ukraine, the 9/11 Memorial in New York, and the Auschwitz
concentration camp in Poland. Battlefields of World War I and II
are also excellent examples of dark tourism sites. Dark tourism
has become a niche tourism sector with great potential for future
tourism growth. In South Africa, the FSGLTA acting as the
marketing arm of the Free State, targets to increase its tourism
numbers and therefore are looking for means of growing the
tourism arrivals towards the province. Dark tourism has been
identified as one of their ways to grow tourism. The main
objective of the paper is to reveal the niche tourism potential of
the Free State by focusing on the South African War (1899–1902).
The broader aim is to establish the typical profile of South African
War enthusiasts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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