Tourism Educators South Africa (TESA) Monthly Round Up and Key Events
IMEX MPI MCI Future Leaders
Thank you to all the students from Institutions who attended the 2025 Future Leaders Forum at Meetings Africa. Seventeen Institutions were represented and about 60mstudents attended.
Congratulations to Ms Tharaga Fulufhelo Emre of the Vaal University of Technology on her winning presentation entitled "Sustainable Development and Housing Advocacy in Elias Motsoaledi Township”.
Ms Emre will represent Africa at the IMEX-MPI-MCI University Challenge in Frankfurt in May 2025. All the best to Ms Emre and the colleagues at VUT in preparation for the finals.
Ms Tharaga Fulufhelo Emre (left) and the students in attendance (right)
(Photo credit Ms Tharaga Fulufhelo Emre)
Call for Papers - Event Management Journal
A special issue is designed to allow studies focused on the African landscape to address the shortfall and broaden the scope of the published research from Africa. Furthermore, the editors believe that these African studies have the potential to provide insights and nuances for the benefit of the global event management academic community. Africa is becoming a critically important global region due to factors such as its economic growth potential, high population growth, and young, digitised population.
You can access the call for papers here.
Routledge Handbook on Bleisure Travel & Tourism: Call for Chapters
The Routledge Handbook on Bleisure Travel and Tourism will be a novel contribution to the current conversations and debates related to bleisure (or business leisure) travel and tourism. These include the history and evolution of bleisure travel, profiles, destinations, infrastructure, trends, corporate understanding and support, best practices, and other related perspectives that will benefit the future development of this study area.
Due date: 30 May 2025
Access the Bleisure CFBC Book here.
Webinar Invitation: Asian Institute of Management on 15 March 2025
The Asian Institute of Management partnered with Smart Community of Tourism to host a webinar entitled “Tourism as a Pathway to Empowerment: Women’s Rights, Equality, and Leadership”.
The webinar is to be held on Saturday, 15 March 2025, at 08:00 (South African time and 15:00 (JST).
Call for Abstracts & TESA Scientific Committee: International Conference on Climate Resilience, Smart and Sustainable Futures (ICCRSF 202) in Johannesburg, South Africa, 25-29 August 2025
TESA support the ICCRSF 2025. The Annual AGM will be held during the conference, during which the new TESA EXCO will be elected. Please diarise this conference as there will be a dedicated TESA track.
If you are interested in joining the Scientific Committee for the TESA track, please send your details to Dr Konanani Twala (Konanani.Thwala@ump.ac.za). This is an ideal opportunity for develop research and gain valuable experience.
This transdisciplinary conference will cover several issues of global importance. These themes include:
- Climate Impact, Resilience, Adaptation and Mitigation
- Sustainable Development and the 2030 Agenda
- Smart Change and Digital Transformation for Sustainability
- Policy Frameworks and Financing for Resilient Futures
- Heritage, Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality under SDGs and Climate Change
1st Abstract Call and Early Bird Registration closes: 15 March 2025
25 August: Postgraduate Students Symposium
For details of the Conference and to submit your abstract, please use the following link https://vut.ac.za/international-conference-on-climate-resilient-smart-and-sustainable-futures-iccrsf-2025/
Don’t miss this lifetime conference with dedicated days for Postgraduate Symposium and Field Excursions.
WTM Africa Education for Responsible Tourism Session Pre-Registration
WTM Africa has arranged a session on “Education for Responsible Tourism”. The purpose of the session is to discuss Responsible Tourism in the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum and providing professional development and lifelong learning for professionals in tourism and hospitality. Therefore, this an opportunity to discuss with the ICRT.global and the ICRT Southern Africa the educational training needs in southern Africa.
Moderator:
Harold Goodwin, Founder ICRT.global and Professor Emeritus at Manchester Metropolitan University
Hugh Bartis, Principal Lecturer Tourism Department at Nelson Mandela University
Interested colleagues who have not registered with WTM Africa need to do so using the following link: https://www.wtm.com/africa/en-gb/enquire.html
We would like to have an indication of how many colleagues will attend so as to make sure our venue is large enough.
Event date: 09 April 2025
Venue: Buyers Lounge
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
For more details, please contact Dr Hugh Bartis (Hugh.Bartis@mandela.ac.za)
