Dr Chengeto Chaderopa

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Dr Chengeto Chaderopa is on the Senior Academic Team at the International College of Management, Sydney (ICMS) and currently occupies the role of Postgraduate Senior Lecturer.

Dr Chaderopa started his teaching career as a high school teacher in Zimbabwe. He later taught at various tertiary institutions of education such as the Bulawayo Tourism and Hospitality School, Chinhoyi University of Technology, and Midlands State University in Zimbabwe, and the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.His studies and previous roles have all centered around tourism and hospitality – passions which have played a large role in his life. He has lectured and tutored at several tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe, New Zealand, and South Africa before moving to Australia in 2018.

Dr. Chaderopa holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, an MSc in Tourism and Hospitality Management from the University of Zimbabwe, and a PhD in Tourism from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He also holds an LCCI Diploma in Business Studies; IPMZ Diploma inPersonnel Management; Graduate Certificate in Education; Certificate in Professional Studies-Adult Teaching; and a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Studies-Adult Teaching.

He has published several papers on tourism, national parks and community participation.

Publications

Chaderopa, C. (2016) Co-management of Natural Resources in Protected Areas in ‘Post-Colonial’ Africa, In Mary Mostafanezhad; Roger Norum, Eric Shelton, and Anna Thompson-Carr (Eds.). Political Ecology of Tourism: Community, power and the environment (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility, UK: Routledge

Chaderopa, C. (2015) Sustainable tourism development: Sustainability Practices in selected Hotels in Rotorua, New Zealand, Paper presented at the Contemporary Perspectives in Tourism and Hospitality Research: Policy, Practice and Performance, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom 12th to 14th July 2015

Chaderopa, C. (2013) Cross-border cooperation in transboundary conservation development initiatives in southern Africa: The role of borders of the mind, Tourism Management, (39), 50-61

Chaderopa, C (2013) Legitimising Transboundary Conservation-Development Initiatives: A discourse analysis of policy-decision making and its implications for rural community participation, International Journal of Tourism Policy, 5 (1/2),128 – 151

Siwadi, P., & Chaderopa C. (2012), Cultural tourism: The alternative, The Dyke, 6 (3) 36-52, Journal of the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

Chaderopa, C. (2010) Transfrontier Parks and Local Communities’ Livelihoods: A Crisis of Representation, Paper presented at the Centre for Recreation Research Symposium – Recreation Values and Natural Areas, University of Otago, 18-19th March 2010

Chaderopa, C. (2010) The Discursive Construction of TFCAs in Southern Africa: Implications for the Community Development Agenda; Paper presented at Geographies of Tourism and Development, New Zealand Geographical Society Conference (2010) with the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG), Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, 5-8th July 2010.

Chaderopa, C. and Nyahunzvi, D. K. (2010) Local Communities and Protected Area Tourism Development in South Africa: Rhetoric and Practice in South Africa, Paper presented at the Geographies of Tourism and Development, New Zealand Geographical Society Conference (2010) with the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG), Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, 5-8th July 2010

Chaderopa, C., & Siwadi P. (2009), Tourism Branding, Journal of Intra African Studies Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, 1: 24-36.