This section features select past projects in which GeoSavvy Development, its principals, and associates have worked on in part or in whole. Reports, presentations and links are provided where available.
Countries where GeoSavvy Development has experience:
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Barbados
Costa Rica
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Cape Verde
Ghana
The Gambia
Jordan
Kenya
Lesotho
Madagascar
Morocco
Senegal
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Zambia
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Cambodia
Laos
Viet Nam
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PROJECTS:
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Global Business School Network: Tourism Training Network Market Research
by Zachary Rozga, Anna Spenceley and Jennifer Aston
The GBSN program is designed to address the shortage of human capital and management capacity in the tourism industry in Africa by strengthening African tourism management training through a Tourism Training Network (TTN). The TTN will build the capacity of local training institutions and better align tourism training to the needs of the private sector. The goal of this programme is to increase the capacity of training institutions to create sustainable quality tourism management programmes that offer locally-relevant courses. Zachary and Anna were selected to conduct the first phase of the project: a market survey to gain a greater understanding of current supply and demand of tourism training. The study analyzed the current status of tourism education in Africa, identified clients and determined relevant skills and knowledge that are in demand in the tourism sector. Zachary and Anna travelled to South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zambia, Ghana, and Senegal to interview tourism related SMEs and managers, training institutions and tourism development professionals. The consultant presented the findings and recommendations to PEP Africa staff in Washington DC and Johannesburg, South Africa. Project Assistant Jennifer Aston assisted with research and data collation.
Documents:
Tourism Training Market Research Report
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Business Edge Sustainable Tourism Course
by Zachary Rozga
Zachary Rozga was selected as the content expert to develop a specialized course for the Business Edge. The Business Edge is a project of the IFC MPDF. The course is a special capstone course for the Small Hotel Management Program of the Business Edge. Zachary worked with the Business Edge instructional designers to develop the material and then delivered three pilots: Hoi An, Viet Nam; Siem Reap, Cambodia; and Vientiane, Laos. The course is intended to be delivered in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific as a part of the Business Edge global rollout.
Links:
Business Edge Middle East - http://www.businessedge-me.com/english/middle.php?file=home
Business Edge Mekong - http://www.businessedge.com.vn/index.jsp?locale=1
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Swaziland Worldhotel-link.com Project
by Jodi McKeeman
As a part of the IFC PEP Africa SMART program, the Worldhotel-link.com and GeoSavvy Development built a demonstration site for Swaziland. This project was in association of the USAID SWEEP program managed by Technoserve. Jodi selected Swazi Trails as the operator as they have long had a passion for the development of the Swaziland tourist industry. The project included the development of the website and an industry workshop on market access.
Links:
Swaziland Travel Link - http://www.swazitravel-link.co.sz/
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Cape Verde Scoping Study and Content Collection Exercise
by Zachary Rozga, Kip Garland and Lana Dingarac
Zachary Rozga led a team of WHL consultants on a project to scope the potential of setting up a WHL portal on the Cape Verde islands. This project was jointly sponsored by the government of Cape Verde and the Millenium Challenge Corporation of Cape Verde. The project inlcuded an initial scoping study of the type of product, product potential and which islands could partiicipate in a WHL portal. The project also included indentifying potential MPO candidates as well as collecting digital content for about 30 SMME operators.
Documents:
Cape Verde Scoping Report
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Lesotho Content Collection Exercise and Product Audit
by Jodi McKeeman and Zachary Rozga
GeoSavvy Development and the Worldhotel-link.com was contracted to work in Lesotho with the Private Sector Competitiveness Project to conduct a content collection exercise and market readiness product audit. This project was a pilot to test the methodology development by WHL to rank products in terms of their market readiness (their readiness to be listed and sold directly to the international independent travel market). The study was delivered to the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation, the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture, the Maloti-Drakensburg Project and the Lesotho Council for Tourism. In addition each of the participating enterprises received a CD-ROM with digital photos, English language copy and sample brochures.
Documents:
Final Report
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Project Findings
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Tanzania Market Access and Sustainable Tourism Workshop
by Zachary Rozga and Jodi McKeeman
The Tanzania Private Sector Competitiveness Project aims to deliver more market share to locally-owned SMME tourism providers. In order to accomplish this goal the Worldhotel-link.com has been contracted to build three web portals, to run a series of workshops and to manage a content collection exercise and market readiness product audit. The project started in March 2007 with the delivery of three awareness workshops in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Arusha. The themes for the workshop were E-commerce, Market Access, Sustainable Tourism and the Independent Travel Market.
Documents:
Sustainable Tourism Session
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Market Access Session
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Johannesburg Worldhotel-link.com Project
by Jodi McKeeman
As a part of the IFC PEP Africa SMART program, the Worldhotel-link.com and GeoSavvy Development built a demonstration site for Johannesburg. This site was determined to be very important on the African continent because of Johannesburg's strategic position as a commercial and transport hub. The focus of this site is the integration of the numerous township accommodation providers with mainstream tourism operators.
Links:
Johannesburg Travel Link - http://www.destination-johannesburg.com
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UNWTO/RETOSA Community-based Tourism Online Database
by GeoSavvy Development
This project was commissioned by the UN World Tourism Organization Sustainable Tourism - Elimination of Poverty Program. The main output of the program was the design and development of the worlds most exstensive community-tourism database for any region. The project was run through the Regional Tourism Association of Southern Africa (RETOSA) and captured data on over 200 enterprises. In addition a Market Access training manual and course was developed to assist these types of enterprises capture market. The training was piloted in both Tanzania and South Africa. GeoSavvy Development Team Members who participated in this project were Dr. Anna Spenceley (Project Manager/Cooridinator), Zachary Rozga (Market Access Specialist), Jodi McKeeman (Volunteer Coordinator/Database Development Manager), Dac Nguyen (Database Designer/Technical Advisor), Duan Biggs (Assessor), and Nicole Brown (Assessor).
Links:
Southern Africa Community-Based Online Database - http://www.community-tourism-africa.com
Documents:
Letter of Commendation
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Market Access Training Manual
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DTI Community Routes Tourism Study
by Zachary Rozga and ECI Africa
Zachary worked as a sub-consultant to help craft the strategy for the NEDLAC and the Department of Tourism and Industry (DTI) for their assistance to community-based tourism and routes tourism in South Africa. The project was managed by ECI Africa and Zachary acted as the main content writer.
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