Leanard Otwori Juma

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology · Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management

High visitation to destinations generates revenue but also threatens the sustainability of tourism's natural resources. NI has been employed as a non-obtrusive visitor management technique using tour guides, maps, information centres, and orientation signs to convey information while recognising its impact on protected areas and tourist activities...

East African region is one of the underdeveloped regions in the world with untapped natural resources. With the increase in population size, countries’ infrastructural development is a key in assuring sustainable development and hence assures food security. Although the region has a huge economic development potential, yet it is well characterized...

The state of renewable energy is one of the most topical issues that affect almost everyone indirectly. In the 21st century, humanity is returning to greater use of natural and sustainable energy sources. One of the critical questions is the level of access to and use of environmental elements and natural resources, including soil, water, air quali...

Visitor management is a vital aspect of destination management, and several ways are used to balance conservation goals and tourist satisfaction. In this regard, nature interpretation has been used to achieve this delicate balance of conservation and tourist satisfaction. Various nature interpretation approaches have been used, with each strategy h...

Various scholars have endorsed contemporary visitor management strategies broadly categorized as hard or soft approaches. The hard strategies like area closure, penalties, patrols, or limiting access have been deemed punitive and restrictive to visitors seeking escape into natural environments. On the other hand, nature interpretation (NI) and gene...

Purpose-Start-ups have become important avenue to curbing the highrate of unemployment especially amongst the youth. East African region hasalso strived to create conducive ecosystems for youth start-ups but there arestill myriad of challenges when it comes to encouraging the youth to prosperin start-up operations. The objective of this paper was t...

Despite most African countries having immense natural and human resources potential, the continent has mostly been lagging on matters of economic development. This scenario could primarily be attributed to weak intra-regional and inter-country trade given the poor connectivity, quality, and diversity in transportation services and infrastructure. I...

Despite most African countries having immense natural and human resources potential, the continent has mostly been lagging on matters of economic development. This scenario could primarily be attributed to weak intra-regional and inter-country trade given the poor connectivity, quality, and diversity in transportation services and infrastructure. I...

Nature interpretation has been advocated as a soft and non-obtrusive on-site visitor management strategy to enhance visitor knowledge and understanding of the resource, mitigate visitor impacts, encourage the conservation and improvement of attraction areas, and assist visitors in enjoying their visit. However, the way in which nature interpretatio...

Purpose-Start-ups have become important avenue to curbing the high rate of unemployment especially amongst the youth. East African region has also strived to create conducive ecosystems for youth start-ups but there are still myriad of challenges when it comes to encouraging the youth to prosper in start-up operations. The objective of this paper w...

Community-Based Tourism (CBT) has been pushed as one of the strategies for poverty alleviation and it might enhance the sustainability of marginalized regions and communities. However, tourism has also been argued to carry seeds for its own destruction and therefore presents a great dilemma and developmental paradox. This research sought to establi...