{"id":1090,"date":"2012-05-29T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2021-09-27T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:03:56","slug":"spotlight-on-seychelles-island-economy-for-universitys-world-bank-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/05\/spotlight-on-seychelles-island-economy-for-universitys-world-bank-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Seychelles island economy for University\u2019s World Bank research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people choose the Seychelles for a luxury holiday but for two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\">Kent Business School<\/a> (KBS) researchers earlier this month it simply provided the beautiful backdrop to intensive research into the tropical island&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/community\/staff\/profiles\/hampton_mark.html\">Dr Mark Hampton<\/a> and Mrs Julia Jeyacheya travelled to the island of Mahe in the Seychelles to carry out field research as part of their World Bank-funded study on the economic impact of tourism in Small Island Developing States.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, both members of KBS&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/applied-research\/centica.html\">Centre for Tourism in Islands and Coastal Areas<\/a>, are leading a project to examine how tourism impacts on inclusive growth in small developing islands and whether there is scope for it to create more local benefits.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit they were hosted by the Ministry of Finance and had a series of high level meetings and in-depth interviews with representatives of the island&#8217;s government and its tourism sector, culminating with Seychelles Minister of Tourism Alain St. Ange.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Hampton said: &#8216;The fieldwork part of our wider project on island tourism was fascinating. The Seychelles have a superb tourism product and a stunning landscape, but frank discussions with both government and the private sector also revealed some serious challenges facing the islands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In just over seven working days, we undertook around 25 meetings and interviews, ranging from the largest five star hotels to owners of small self-catering accommodation, tour operators, the transport sector, local restaurant businesses and boat charters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Most people go to the Seychelles to relax, but we didn\u2019t get a lot of time to enjoy the scenery.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The overall project is based at Kent with specialist input from professors at two other universities. The findings and policy recommendations will be reported to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/\">World Bank<\/a> in July and to the Commonwealth Secretariat conference in London in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people choose the Seychelles for a luxury holiday but for two Kent Business School (KBS) researchers earlier this month it simply provided the beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/05\/spotlight-on-seychelles-island-economy-for-universitys-world-bank-research\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2299,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9890,124,9891,9111,19167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}