Staff Profiles

PhD (Community Resources & Development) Tourism Management (Arizona State University)

M.A (Tourism Studies) (University of the Witwatersrand)

Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) (University of Botswana)

B.A. (Humanities) (University of Botswana)

Lesego S. Stone (PhD), is a Senior Research Fellow (Tourism Management) at the Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana, Maun, Botswana. Dr. Stone has published in top-tier tourism journals including Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Current Issues in Tourism. Her research interests include  sustainable tourism development with specific reference to nature-based tourism, tourism marketing, community-based tourism and community participation in tourism.Dr. Stone started her career as a high school teacher teaching Geography and Development Studies.

Tourism and sustainable development, natural resource management, environmental management, community livelihoods and tourism, tourism and community development and empowerment, community-based tourism and conservation, tourism planning and human-wildlife conflicts

Tourism and sustainable development, natural resource management, environmental management, community livelihoods and tourism, tourism and community development and empowerment, community-based tourism and conservation, tourism planning and human-wildlife conflicts

Stone, M.T. & Stone, L.S. (2020): Challenges of community-based tourism in Botswana: a review of literature, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 75 (2), 181-193

Mogomotsi, P. K., Stone, L.S., Mogomotsi, G, E. J & Dube, N. (2020): Factors influencing community participation in wildlife conservation, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 25 (4), 372-386

Stone, L. S. & Nyaupane, G. P. (2020). “Local Residents’ Pride, Tourists’ Playground: The Misrepresentation and Exclusion of Local Residents in Tourism”. Current Issues in Tourism, 23 (11), 1426-1442   

Stone, L.S. & Nyaupane, G. P.  (2019). The Tourist Gaze: Domestic versus International Tourists. Journal of Travel Research, 58 (5), 877-891