Sport Tourism
Sport tourism Major sport events were researched in the past including Two Oceans Marathon, Cape Town Cycle Tour, Dusi Canoe Marathon, Midmar Mile, Cape Epic, South Africa versus Australia five-day and Twenty20 international test & Global Sixes Cricket tournament, South Africa versus Brazil international soccer match and Ironman South Africa (…
MICE Tourism
MICE Tourism, MICE (Meeting, Incentive Travel, Conferences and Exhibitions) tourism is strongly related to business tourism. South Africa has become an ideal location for international conferences, conventions, trade shows and symposiums. Our research focuses on analysing the market attracted to trade shows and exhibitions, the economic impact of these business…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Our Staff
staff The following staff from part of TREES Prof E Slabbert (Research Director) Elmarie.slabbert@nwu.ac.za Prof M Kruger Martinette.kruger@nwu.ac.za Prof S Lucrezi Serena.lucrezi@nwu.ac.za Prof A Viljoen Adam.viljoen@nwu.ac.za Dr T Matiza Tafadzwa.matiza@nwu.ac.za Dr T Makuyana (post-doctoral fellow) Makuyanatawanda@gmail.com Dr M Chambwe (Post…
About us
TRADE is a research focus area at the North-West University specialising in the fields of economics, international trade, risk management, agricultural economics and accounting., We are an established entity with a footprint extending to all three campuses of the NWU. Our underlying principles include openness, quality research, acknowledge of achievements, capacity building, equality, teamwork and research support. TRADE has an experienced and committed team of researchers who are well connected in government and business…
Research
TRADE Research, In 2021 TRADE members published 104 research articles in accredited journals, with a total research output of 65 article equivalents. , Subject Fields and Research Programmes, It is against the background of the research strengths, interests and outputs of the members of TRADE as well as the country’s national priorities, that the following five sub-research fields have been identified and implemented: [accordion collapsed], Economics, Macro-economics, Development Economics, Labour Economics, Gender and Feminist Economics, as well as applied Microeconomics and Econometrics, financial development and its linkages with economic growth, labour markets, industrial policy and issues of human capital, time use and other, applied microeconomic studies as well as issues of…, International Trade, Export promotion; import substitution; trade policy development; regional integration; export-led growth; competitiveness; international market analysis and selection; trade facilitation; global value chain analysis; digital trade; firm-level exports; policy analysis; international marketing and investment promotion., Risk Management, Financial markets, bank risk management and investment management. Several articles from this subject field have been published on financial markets (volatility), investment and portfolio management (valuation models, asset pricing, performance measures, risk tolerance, risk profiling), derivative instruments (financial and agricultural…, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural development, food security, competitiveness and sustainability, linking farmers to high-value markets, business plans and feasibility studies., Accounting, Financial management of risks and valuations, taxes (currently retirement tax and sin tax versus grants and COVID-29) and accounting education – specifically IT needs for accountancy professionals. [/accordion], Special Projects, Dr David Spies has done continued research since 2015 for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France) to provide data for the estimation of the Producer Support Estimate (PSE) for South Africa for the annual edition of the organisation's monitoring and evaluation reports. Drs Ernst Idsardi and David Spies completed a…
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…
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…
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,…