The Faculty of Commerce celebrated the launch of the Tourism Research Unit (UCT-TRU) in 2013, a specialist research and teaching unit within the School of Management Studies that will work to increase the knowledge base of the tourism industry in order to contribute to policy formation by business‚ governments and international organisations.
UCT-TRU, which is headed up by Dr Richard George, is currently working with Cape Town Tourism, Grant Thornton and the City of Cape Town in a United Nations–World Tourism Organisation collaborative project analysing the economic impact of tourism in Cape Town, and is also working with the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa on international tourist data collection for the Southern African Development Community.
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