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A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa
Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/90934 A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa Fourie, Sonja ichelp@gibs.co.za Mufunguri, Moses UCTD Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2022. Technological advances in tourism have led to the introduction of virtual tourism which experienced a global surge during the Covid-19 pandemic. The exploratory study, which is informed by both the business and theoretical contribution and anchored on the Dynamic Capabilities Theory, sought to establish how game reserves in Africa, and especially within South Africa, have sensed and seized the opportunity and how they have transformed, in addition to establishing the sustainability of virtual tourism. The results from the 13 interviews indicate that virtual tourism is a nascent offering in Africa mostly benefiting the private sector with minimal public sector participation. Virtual tourism has led to business remodelling by agile game reserves positioning for the opportunity. Dynamic capabilities have created economic scaling for game reserves that have successfully implemented it either alone or in partnership with independent service providers. Further, virtual tourism has been determined as a sustainable form of tourism. The researcher drew attention to the research contribution of the research, advice to management, and advancing recommendations for further research into the concept of virtual tourism pt23 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil (Corporate Strategy) Unrestricted 2023-05-28T16:59:54Z 2023-05-28T16:59:54Z 19-04-2023 2022 Mini Dissertation * A2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90934 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa |
| title | A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa |
| title_full | A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa |
| title_fullStr | A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa |
| title_short | A qualitative inquiry of the adoption, economic impact, and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa |
| title_sort | qualitative inquiry of the adoption economic impact and implications of virtual tourism to game parks within limpopo and mpumalanga provinces of south africa |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90934 |