We finally found a home for this manuscript after almost throwing it in the bin at some point. The journey of this manuscript has been perhaps too long and understandably our love in this pet project began to wane. Thanks to my co-author Chris Mensah at Ho Technical University, Ghana for persisting when I wanted … Continue reading [New paper, Open Access] Tourism and Hospitality Research in the Peripheries: Thematic Focus and a Research Agenda from Ghana
Chickens! Chickens!! Chickens!!! They are such wonderful creatures and you can spend days just observing them. As a friend noted the other day, it's good that we had these ladies here ahead of time to keep us occupied when the lockdown came in. They have kept us engaged through their antics and kept us protein-feed … Continue reading The 3 Chickenteers: Cheetah, Zonnetje & Dino-Tok tok
Finally! Finally!! Finally!!!.....we clicked on send, submit, done, BAM! It is gone now and we can catch some respite. I am excited to say that with my wonderful co-editors - Marina Novelli and Manuel Ribiero - we have finally submitted the entire manuscript for the Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa to the publishers. The … Continue reading Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa: manuscript submitted! Yaay!!!
Happy World Tourism Day 2019! Did you know that each year, 27 September is celebrated as World Tourism Day which is organised by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO). This is an event celebrated to foster awareness among the international community about the importance of tourism in terms of its social, cultural, political and … Continue reading Travel and see!!! Happy World Tourism Day 2019
What serendipity is this!?! I have been searching for a document I remember I had once made listing all the cost/scholarship amounts of my expensive university education so far. I just couldn't remember the name of this document so I was going folder by folder opening every word file I come across with the faint … Continue reading Thoughts on Ghana…so far (2nd November, 2014)
Tourism Planning and Development Journal Special Issue on Sustainability in tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: past, present and future Guest Editors Dr. Emmanuel A. Adu-Ampong Sheffield Hallam University, UK & University of Johannesburg, South Africa e.adu-ampong@shu.ac.uk & Dr. Albert N. Kimbu University of Surrey, UK a.kimbu@surrey.ac.uk Tourism (both domestic … Continue reading Call for Papers – Special Issue on Sustainability in tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: past, present and future
The menace of illegal mining in Ghana has been a bane for authorities recently. Illegal mining, popularly called ‘galamsey’ in Ghana, is a type of mining carried out with basic implement by mostly local people in search for gold or other minerals in the earth crust. The proliferation of small scale illegal mining is … Continue reading Exploring Alternative Income Sources for Illegal Miners in Ghana
I am please to announce the publication of a new research article that identifies 100 key questions to be considered in the context of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In March, 2015 I wrote a short blog post about a working paper that was published as part of a research project I was involved in … Continue reading 100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda: a research paper
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be dead by the end of this year (2015). There are many ways to write the obituary of this global endeavour. Irrespective of how you write it, one thing remains true and that is, the MDGs were (over) ambitious but they brought global attention to a number of issues. There … Continue reading The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are dead! 100 key questions for the post-2015 development agenda
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 