Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism
Bibliography: pages 111-113.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Environmental and Geographical Science
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613233870798848 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Uken, Ernst-August |
| author2 | Ferrario, Franco |
| author_browse | Ferrario, Franco Uken, Ernst-August |
| author_facet | Ferrario, Franco Uken, Ernst-August |
| author_sort | Uken, Ernst-August |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Bibliography: pages 111-113. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16346 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:32:52.713Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publishDateRange | 2016 |
| publishDateSort | 2016 |
| publisher | Department of Environmental and Geographical Science |
| publisherStr | Department of Environmental and Geographical Science |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16346 Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism Uken, Ernst-August Ferrario, Franco Environmental and Geographical Science Tourism Economic Development Bibliography: pages 111-113. The continued growth of the South African tourist industry was assumed and projections up to year 2020 were made to establish the corresponding growth in employment opportunities in the hotel industry. Overseas tourism is sensitive to and dependent on many factors. These were identified and the performance over the past two decades for bona fide overseas visitors, excluding mere border crossings, were extrapolated, accepting that oscillations about the suggested trend line will become greater in the future. In order to predict the growth of domestic tourism, cognisance had to be taken of the demographic development of the various population groups. The distribution of wealth among the various groups was estimated in the short, medium and long terms. On it depends the choice of accommodation when going on holiday. An evaluation was made of the employment pattern in the South African hotel industry. Published data from the Central Statistical Services and the Bureau of Financial Analysis (BFA) of the University of Pretoria were used. The 1982 Manpower Survey of the BFA proved particularly useful in establishing the present distribution of skilled staff in the industry by hotel grading and by geographical area. Performance ratios were calculated relative to capital invested and to revenue earned. The lowest staff to room ratios were used as criterion for optimal and most efficient usage of staff. The model thus developed with the aid of the Hewlett Packard STATP computer program, was based on actual present performance of a certain category of hotels. Unlike other approaches reported in the literature, a clear distinction was here made between skilled and unskilled labour. This distinction is considered to be of prime importance to any developing country where a shortage of skilled staff generally prevails, in contrast to a vast supply of untrained labour. 2016-01-12T11:18:58Z 2016-01-12T11:18:58Z 1986 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16346 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Environmental and Geographical Science Tourism Economic Development Uken, Ernst-August Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| title_full | Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| title_fullStr | Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| title_short | Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| title_sort | employment opportunities in the south african hotel industry with special reference to tourism |
| topic | Environmental and Geographical Science Tourism Economic Development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16346 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ukenernstaugust employmentopportunitiesinthesouthafricanhotelindustrywithspecialreferencetotourism |