Tourism and Hospitality for Sustainable Development

Emmanuel Ndhlovu is a scholar and student of development. His research interests are in peasant and informal sector livelihoods, land reform issues, political economy, digitalisation of industries, and food sovereignty. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of South Africa. At the time of writing, Emmanuel was with the Vaal University of Technology as a postdoc researcher.

Kaitano Dube is an Associate Professor seconded to the Ecotourism Management Department. He hosts Postdoctoral Fellows and is acting as a Faculty of Human Science Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Professor. He serves as a senate member and several senate subcommittees such as the Higher Degrees Committee, Senate Research and Innovation Committee Member and Faculty Research and Innovation Chairman, among others. His role is to promote research, innovation, and commercialisation in the faculty.

Catherine Kifworo (PhD) is an emerging Researcher and a tourism management lecturer and from Maasai Mara University, Kenya. At the time of writing, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Vaal University of Technology, South Africa, under the Department of Tourism and Integrated Communication. She is a mixed methods researcher whose research interests include domestic tourism, climate change, sustainable tourism and Tourism Policy. She has also published several articles in these areas.

Chapter 1: Tourism and Hospitality Trends and Sustainable Development: Emerging Issues in the Digital Era.- Chapter 2: Assessment of the Adoption of Technologies to Promote Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on Climate Action by Wildlife-Based Tourist Destinations in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 3: Tourist perspectives on the use of electric cars in game lodges in Sub- Saharan Africa.- Chapter 4: Innovation and Technology Integration in the Hospitality Industry in Response to Climate Change .- Chapter 5: Digitalisation and Technological Integration for Sustainable Tourism in South Africa.- Chapter 6: Information security in the Zimbabwean hotel sector.- Chapter 7: Digitalisation as Potential Tool for Post-COVID-19 Tourism Recovery and Resilience in South Africa.- Chapter 8: Adoption of Contemporary Technologies among hotels in Zimbabwe: A case of city hotels in Harare.- Chapter 9: The Transformational Influence of Digitalization on the Revival of Africa's Travel and Tourism Industry in the Post-COVID-19 Era.- Chapter 10: The state of technology deployment in South Africa's tourism and hospitality industry.- Chapter 11: The use of electronic diaries in qualitative hospitality research: A methodological reflection.- Chapter 12: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in the Tourism Sector in African Countries: Opportunities, Barriers and Ethical Considerations.- Chapter 13: Exploring the impacts of AI and IoT in the South African tourism and hospitality industry.- Chapter 14: A Descriptive Analysis of Social Media Use By a Selected Sample of Generation Z Travellers.- Chapter 15: Conclusion: Digitalisation as a driver of sustainable development in tourism and Hospitality.