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Prof. Issahaku Adam

Professor · Senior Member

🏛 Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management

★ Vice-Dean

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About

Prof. Issahaku Adam is a Professor of Tourism Management at the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. He specialises in tourism management with particular emphasis on accessible tourism, inclusive leisure, tourist behaviour and experience, sustainable tourism, and gendered entrepreneurial pathways in tourism. He has been a grant recipient from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Research England, National Geographic Society, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), and the French Embassy in Ghana. He is an approved PhD and MPhil supervisor.

Focus & expertise

Specializations

Accessible Tourism Backpacker Vulnerabilities Climate Change Adaptation Destination planning Gendered entrepreneurial pathways in tourism Inclusion in tourism/leisure Sustainable Tourism Tourist behaviour and experience

Academic interests · number = colleagues who share it

Accessible Tourism Icts in Tourism International Tourism Research Method2 Statistics Sustainable Tourism Tour Operation Tourist Psychology

Recent activity

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Project Sep 2019

Behavioural Strategies to Reduce Single-Use Plastics

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Project Sep 2019

Women Entreprenuerial Journeys through tourism in Sub-saharan Africa

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Project Sep 2019

Evaluation of Interventions by the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust (GHCT)

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Project Sep 2019

Tourism Improvement Project (TIP): Multi-Product Tourism Development Initiative in the Komenda, Edina, Eguafo, Abirem (KEEA) Municipality in Ghana

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Fellowship Jan 2018

Blue Charter Fellowship

Background

🎓 Education & qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Tourism Management

University of Cape Coast

2016

Master of Philosophy in Tourism Management

University of Cape Coast

2011

Bachelor of Science in Tourism

University of Cape Coast

2008

★ Career & positions

Departmental Registration & Exams Officer

Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Sep, 2020 to Aug, 2021

Head of Department

Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Oct, 2021 to Aug, 2024

Vice-Dean

Faculty of Social Sciences

Nov, 2024 to Aug, 2026

Teaching & projects

I believe in student-centered learning and therefore make use of the problem-based learning approach to engage and stimulate the minds and imagination of students to be active co-creators of the lessons and more importantly unleash their creative and problem solving abilities.

Teaching philosophy

Projects

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Behavioural Strategies to Reduce Single-Use Plastics

Principal Investigator

January 2019 - Present

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Women Entreprenuerial Journeys through tourism in Sub-saharan Africa

Country Lead Investigor

January 2018 - Present

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Evaluation of Interventions by the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust (GHCT)

Co-Investigator

January 2017 - December 2018

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Tourism Improvement Project (TIP): Multi-Product Tourism Development Initiative in the Komenda, Edina, Eguafo, Abirem (KEEA) Municipality in Ghana

Co-Invistagtor and Consulatant

January 2017 - Present

Publications ORCID 0000-0002-4769-9504 →

2026 Workplace inclusion struggles and consequences on migrant workers—a multi-group invariance analysis journal article

2026 ‘ Sometimes it’s as if I don’t exist’ : workplace inclusion of employees with disability in emerging destinations journal article

2026 “Survival Precedes Peace”: Natural-Resource Conflict in an Ecotourism Protected Area in Ghana journal article

2026 Enhancing cultural ecosystem services in sub-Saharan African ecotourism destinations through heritage interpretation: a systematic review journal article

2025 Representation of Disability in Akan Discourse journal article

2025 Hosts’ acceptance of tourist and trip experience in Ghana journal article

2024 Western tourists’ adjustment to cultural expectations in Africa journal article

2024 Influence of leisure on sexual behaviour of young people with hearing and vision loss in Ghana journal article

2023 Crisis-induced financial anxiety, social support, socio-psychological wellbeing, and commitment to work in the tourism sector journal article

2023 Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from the hospitality and tourism workplace journal article

2023 Rational and Moral Antecedents of Tourists’ Intention to Use Reusable Alternatives to Single-Use Plastics journal article

2023 Decoding domestic tourism customers’ emotional responses to covid-19: A segmentation approach journal article

2023 COVID-19-Induced Redundancy and Socio-Psychological Well-Being of Tourism Employees: Implications for Organizational Recovery in a Resource-Scarce Context journal article

2022 Leisure and psychological wellbeing of people with visual impairment journal article

2021 Women entrepreneurship orientation, networks and firm performance in the tourism industry in resource-scarce contexts journal article

2021 Negative tourist-to-tourist interactions, value destruction, satisfaction, and post consumption behavioral intention journal article

2021 Perceived impacts of COVID-19 on risk perceptions, emotions, and travel intentions: evidence from Macau higher educational institutions journal article

2021 Understanding the social identity, motivations, and sustainable behaviour among backpackers: a clustering approach journal article

2021 Policy responses to reduce single-use plastic marine pollution in the Caribbean journal article

2020 Measuring negative tourist-to-tourist interaction: scale development and validation journal article

2019 A structural decompositional analysis of eco-visitors’ motivations, satisfaction and post-purchase behaviour journal article

2019 Digital leisure engagement and concerns among inbound tourists in Ghana journal article

2018 Ethnic-based motives and experiences at former slave sites journal article

2018 Leisure aspirations of people with visual impairment in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana journal article

2018 People with visual impairment ‘watching’ television? Leisure pursuits of people with visual impairment in Ghana journal article

2018 Tourists’ values and empathic attitude toward sustainable development in tourism journal article

2017 Antecedents to leisure participation among people with physical disability in Ghana journal article

2017 Are we our own enemies? Leisure constraints of physically and visually disabled people in Ghana journal article

2017 Leisure motivation of people with physical and visual disabilities in Ghana journal article

2016 Do backpackers suffer crime? Empirical investigation of crime perpetrated against backpackers in Ghana journal article

2015 Backpackers' risk perceptions and risk reduction strategies in Ghana journal article

2015 International Tourists’ Satisfaction with Ghanaian Upscale Restaurant Services and Revisit Intentions journal article

2015 Leisure constraints in the university setting in Ghana journal article

2014 Gendered perspectives of leisure patterns and constraints of university students in Ghana journal article

2014 Hotel characteristics and location decisions in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana journal article

2014 Perceived spatial agglomeration effects and hotel location choice journal article

2014 Students' food safety concerns and choice of eating place in Ghana journal article

2013 Dimensions of hotel location in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana journal article

2013 Urban Hotel Development Patterns in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana journal article

Honors & affiliations

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University of Cape Coast (Directorate of Innovation, Consultancy and Research) Inter-departmental Research Grant

Directorate of Innovation, Consultancy and Research, University of Cape Coast · 2017

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University of Cape Coast (Directorate of Innovation, Consultancy and Research) Individual Research Support Grant

Directorate of Innovation, Consultancy and Research, University of Coast · 2017

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University of Cape Coast (Directorate of Innovation, Consultancy and Research) Best College-Level Researcher Award

Directorate of Innovation, Consultancy and Research, University of Cape Coast · 2017

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Association of Commonwealth Universities Early Career Academic Grants

Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) · 2017

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Association of Commonwealth Universities

Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) · 2017

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IFRA - French Embassy in Ghana grant for social sciences

French Embassy in Ghana · 2010

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Blue Charter Fellowship

Association of Commonwealth Universities · 2018

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Member

International Sociological Association (ISA) · 2018

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Member

Leisure Studies Association · 2017

Colleagues & frequently viewed together

Prof. Francis Eric Amuquandoh Professor · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management › Prof. Charles Atanga Adongo Associate Professor · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management › Dr. (Mrs.) Evelyn Addison-Akotoye Lecturer · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management ›

Dr. (Mrs.) Ewoenam Afua Afenyo-Agbe Senior Lecturer · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management ›

Prof. Kwaku Adutwum Ayim Boakye Professor · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management ›

Dr. Abednego Kofi Bansah Senior Lecturer · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management ›

Dr. Fatimah Abubakar Von Lecturer · Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Climate Change Adaptation ›

Mrs. Gladys Attah-Gyamfi Abbeyquaye Director · Directorate of Public Affairs ›

Prof. Simon Mariwah Professor · Department of Geography and Regional Planning ›

Prof. Adeladza Kofi Amegah Associate Professor · Department of Biomedical Sciences ›

Prof. Kwaku Adutwum Ayim Boakye Professor · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management › Prof. Charles Atanga Adongo Associate Professor · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management ›

Prof. Francis Eric Amuquandoh Professor · Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management ›

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