Mac Mofokeng

• Lecturer at Durban University of Technology

This chapter posits a potential roadmap of the non-fungible token (NFT) standards’ evolution that would be akin to the evolution of the Web itself – from text, to images, to video (current phase), and soon to new computing platforms like Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Metaverse. The static, extensible, & artificially imposed scarcity of current...

Abstract The current study illustrates the influence of restaurant ambient conditions on customers satisfaction in the tourism and hospitality industries through cluster and simple random techniques. The primary objective was to ascertain the relationship between the restaurant ambient conditions and customer satisfaction in rural restaurants. A cl...

Purpose: It has been established that most informal businesses in Ghana are performing well and earn incomes higher than the poverty line threshold. The current study, therefore, aims at ascertaining how one's gender and personal traits (locus of control) affect business performance. Design/methodology/approach: To this effect, cross sectional qua...

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a term widely used to refer to the type of learning which entails application and integration of theoretical learning and applied learning in the workplace. Workplace learning (WPL) therefore bridges the gap between higher education institutions and industry. Work-integrated learning comprises of various modalities...

Tourism is a fragmented industry made up of numerous businesses engaged in the economic activity of providing products and services to meet tourist demands. The hospitality sector is one of the key drivers of the tourism industry, with an integral component of this sector being food and beverage. Recent reports of counterfeit consumable products in...

The era of transformation powered by digitization, improvements in information and communication technology, machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence is upon us. Today, we are able to solve complex problems with the aid of technology. That notwithstanding, animal populations globally are under threat, with the extinction of species ta...

Tourism destinations are always seeking new and innovative ways to better market tourism offerings and increase tourism revenues. This paper seeks to highlight a future tourism marketing trend through the use of virtual environments (VE) backed by Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT's) such as Blockchain. VE is the umbrella term referring to virtu...

Mega sporting events are one of the most hotly contested and highly sought after events by countries in contemporary times, and more so recently by developing countries. They are rightly or wrongly viewed as catalysts for economic and infrastructural development. The most prominent infrastructural legacies that are by-products of mega sporting even...

In South Africa, the tourism industry has long been identified as one of the key drivers for economic development and the transformation of the economy. Although South Africa joined the world tourism stage after the democratic dispensation of 1994, the country to this day still contends with issues linked to its unjust past, such as poverty, inequa...

Mega sporting events are one of the most hotly contested and highly sought after events by countries in contemporary times, and more so recently by developing countries. They are rightly or wrongly viewed as catalysts for economic and infrastructural development. The most prominent infrastructural legacies that are by-products of mega sporting even...