The Impact of E-commerce on Sierra Leone Tourism Industry

The importance of electronic commerce is felt and greatly emphasized in the present business field. Today, all the industries have started adopting e-commerce concepts, where tourism is probably the most affected industry by e-commerce. The E-tourism and its utility provide a lot of information on Sierra Leone destination, hotels, facilities, price and tariff, geographical features and climate. More number of companies integrated all the services on their websites and provides a complete package with a competitive price to the required customers. E-tourism companies in Sierra Leone also provide mobile application facilities to the consumers. E-tourism companies need to follow certain procedures laid down by the Government. The objectives of the study is to identify the level of impact of e-commerce technology on tourism industry in Sierra Leone and the opportunities and challenges. A systematic research methodology is adopted, data has been collected from the tour operators through questionnaire and suitable statistical tools were applied. With the help of the collected data a detailed analysis was made, understand the impact of e- Commerce on Sierra Leone tourism industry identify the opportunities and challenges as well as the market trend

The Importance of Human Resource Management in the Hotel industry in Sierra Leone

Human Resources are the most valuable and unique assets of an organization.  The successful management of an organization’s human resources is an exciting dynamic and challenging task, especially at a time when the world has become a global village and economies are in a state of flux The purpose of this research is to examine the roles and functions of human resource management in the hotel Industry.  It also detailed with the methods used together with all relevant information about the importance of human resource management in the hotel sector and how the collected data was analyzed with the use of simple percentages tables to illustrate the research findings. Finally, are the summary, conclusion and references made by the researcher based on the findings

The Role of Tourism in the Development of Sierra Leone

Tourism is now one of the World’s largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors for many countries, tourism is seen as a main instrument for regional development, as it stimulates new economic activities.  Tourism may have a positive economic impact on the balance of payments, on employment, on gross income and production, but it may also have negative effects particularly on the environment. Unplanned and uncontrolled tourism growth can result in such a deterioration of the environment that tourist growth can be compromised.  This study examines the role of tourism in the development of Sierra Leone with key references to both positive and negative economic contributions.  The main research instrument used was the questionnaire which was administered among respondents from various sectors within the Tourism Industry in Sierra Leone.  Data collected was analyzed by the use of the statistics packages for social sciences (SPSS).  One thing I am looking forward to is that the Government will provide adequate fund for Tourism Development in the country