Core Membership of the CSTI
CSTI Director: Dr Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo
Senior Lecturer - Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-1850
Executive Management Members
- Dr Pascal Tauoatsoala HoD- Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0161-1618
- Dr Lisa Welthagen Portfolio Manager: SLPs & Training (Dr L Welthagen) Senior Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-0174
- Dr M Monyane: Portfolio Manager: Consultancy, & Strategic Planning Direction - Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4280-7541
- Dr Beverly Nthabeleng Portfolio Manager: Research & Collaboration (Dr B Ntshabeleng) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-4986
Affiliate members
- Prof Ndivhuwo N Tshipala - Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning: Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4655-0214
- Pfarelo Manavhela - Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3207-7120
- Dr Samantha Bouwer - Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-387X
- Dr Leane Grobbelaar Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7134-0139
- Dr Willie Hood Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management
- Dr Rosa-Anne Naudé-Potgieter Teaching and Learning Section Head Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8136-4575
- Athenkosi Ntanjana Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0638-520X
- Jacqueline Mangwane Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6953-0649
- Lorraine Molefe Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3684-557X
- Xolile Mnisi Lecturer: Department of Tourism Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5974-8334
Visiting Professors
- Prof Clifford L Lewis (Charles Sturt University, Australia) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1151-6689
- Prof Marina Novelli Director of the Sustainable Travel and Tourism Advanced Research Centre (STTAR-C) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4629-4481
Advisory Board
| Internal Members | External |
| Maluta Jerry Netshandama – Accounting Department Lecturer and Registered Tax Practitioner | Adrianne Harris: Independent consultant in Tourism- International Development Aid, Key expert – Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Dr Pascal Tauoatsoala – Head of Department- Department of Tourism Management | Dr Laeticia Jacobs: National Department of Tourism Acting Director: Tourism Integration |
| Prof Uwe Herman - Section Head: Research and Innovation - Department of Tourism Management | Sthandiwe Mkhize: Thinking Pair Group - Director |
| Dr Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo: CSTI Director | Nwabisa Mjoli: Fetula - Sustainability Practitioner |
EX-OFFICIOUS MEMBERS
Dr NE Nesamvuni – Executive Dean, Management Sciences
Dr Makotoko Hamilton Mphidi: Director - Innovation and Technology Transfer Office
Dr Lisa Welthagen
Dr Malefane Monyane
Dr Beverly Ntshabeleng
Affiliate Partners
The Centre would use interdisciplinary teams engaged in research to solve tourism problems and expand the knowledge base for the industry, governments, and the academic world. The centre will work in collaboration with numerous individual partners as well as affiliated departments, Institutes and Programs within Tshwane University of Technology and beyond. The vast array of expertise amongst the affiliates provides outstanding intellectual resources to provide strategic services through research, consultancy, education and training.