Ishmael Mensah

Ishmael Mensah is an Associate Professor of tourism and hospitality management at the University of Cape Coast and Ghana Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast. He holds a PhD Tourism degree from the same university and is a Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) by the American Hotel and Lodging Association as well as a Member of the Institute of Hospitality (MIH). His research interests include environmental management in tourism and hospitality, service quality, destination marketing, community participation in tourism development, career development in tourism and events management.

Publications

Prospects and Challenges of Community-Based Tourism and Changing Demographics
Prospects and Challenges of Community-Based Tourism and Changing Demographics
Ishmael Mensah, Ewoenam Afenyo-Agbe. © 2022. 300 pages.
The negative impacts associated with conventional tourism has occasioned more sustainable forms of tourism including community-based tourism (CBT). Among the benefits of CBT are...
Principles, Benefits, and Barriers to Community-Based Tourism: Implications for Management
Principles, Benefits, and Barriers to Community-Based Tourism: Implications for Management
Ewoenam Afenyo-Agbe, Ishmael Mensah. © 2022. 29 pages.
Though CBT is an attractive model for the attainment of both community development and environmental conservation, its implementation is fraught with challenges. This chapter...
Smiling vs. Frowning Faces: Community Participation for Sustainable Tourism in Ghanaian Communities
Smiling vs. Frowning Faces: Community Participation for Sustainable Tourism in Ghanaian Communities
Ama Amponsaa Birch Freeman, Ishmael Mensah, Kwabena Barima Antwi. © 2022. 24 pages.
Participatory development has become an integral strategy for achieving sustainable tourism in view of the varying impacts brought by mass tourism. Community participation...