Thesis (MTech (Tourism and Hospitality Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2006. / The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses one of the greatest challenges to business
development in South Africa. The hotel industry is growing rapidly and will be
. significantly affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The purpose of this study was
to determine the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding HIV/AIDS
of staff from nine Protea group hotels in Cape Town. A sample of 200 hotel staff
was randomly selected to participate. A structured self-administered anonymous
questionnaire was the instrument used to collect the data.
The response rate was 81%. There were more females than males, and the
majority of the respondents were between the ages of 21-30 years. More than
half of the respondents were single, hotel managers and with matriculation as the
highest qualification. The respondents demonstrated a reasonably good
knowledge on the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Almost half of the respondents
believed that HIV/AIDS would not affect the hotel industry. The survey revealed
conflicting results on whether HIV-infected staff should be involved in food
preparation, and whether staff should serve food to HIV positive hotel guests.
There were also concerns of the risk of infection when handling dirty linen used
by HIV-infected hotel guests.
More males than females were currently sexually active and reported having
more than one partner in the past three years. The majority of the respondents
believed that condoms were effective, but only one third reported the use of a
condom every time they had a sexual encounter. There was a significant
relationship between knowledge and attitudes (p-value<0.05, but none between
knowledge and practice and attitude and practice.
It is recommended that the hotel industry develop effective workplace policies
and supportive environments, and that on-going HIV/AIDS education and
prevention programmes be implemented to change high risk sexual behaviour
and practices.
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| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Mohammed, Amina |
| Publisher | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/za/ |
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