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| Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hotels: Setting a Research Agenda for Water, Energy and Waste Management |
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| Dr. Charles Arcodia and Ms. Chantal Dickson |
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Climate change caused by global warming is a critical environmental challenge facing the world of
the 21st century. The most widely accepted scientific explanation attributes rising average
temperatures of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans to increases in concentrations of
anthropogenic greenhouse gases (IPCC, 2007). |
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| Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study of Protected Areas in the Alps |
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| Ms. Mojca Arsenijevic and Dr. Marko Bohanec |
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Ecotourism presents a small segment of nature-tourism, which is understood as travelling to
relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated natural areas (Gssling, 1999). According to the World
Wildlife Fund, in 1995 nature-tourism consisted of 15% of all tourism worldwide. The term
ecotourism can be well described with the following five criteria: nature conservation, low impact,
sustainability, meaningful community involvement and environmental education. |
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| Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitality Industry |
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| Dr. Sabah Balta and Dr. Murat Bengisu |
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Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life.
The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth.
However this growth must be a planned and balanced one with appropriate consideration of its
human resources. |
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| Emerging Green Tourists: Their Behaviours and Attitudes |
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| Dr. Sue Bergin-Seers and Dr. Judith Mair |
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Global concern about environmental sustainability and climate change has exploded in recent
years and is now one of the most widespread political and social issues in Australia. The concern
about the quality of life for future generations has taken hold and is affecting the way consumers
behave. Increasing awareness of the impacts of the use of household products, car emissions,
long haul travel and over-development is, in many communities... |
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| Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: The Case of Turkish Service Providers and European Guests |
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| Dr. Yasin Boylu, Dr. Asli D. A. Tasci and Dr. William C. Gartner |
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Culture and its various aspects has been an intriguing subject of inquiry for tourism researchers. At
the national level, culture is shared by most people over long periods of time while subcultures
might exist within this dominant culture, based on ethnic, religious, location, age, or other factors
that can change in time (Hofstede 1980). |
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| Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food Movement in Slovenia, its Impacts on Socio-cultural Environments and Tourism Development |
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| Mr. Miha Bratec |
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Rising out of the ashes of half a century lasting socialist regime, Slovenia after it got its
independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, was facing a period of transition in both the economic
system, as well as in socio - cultural values. The transitional processes somehow coincided in the
temporal perspective with the general acceptance of the concept of sustainable development as
defined by the World Commission on... |
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| Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the Ferguson Valley, Western Australia |
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| Dr. Jack Carlsen and Dr. Alison Morrison |
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Lifestyle has been oft cited in the literature as the main motivation for those establishing or
acquiring tourism related businesses in attractive destinations. However, the term has many
different dimensions and connotations, both positive and negative, that have emerged in the
tourism literature since the 1980s. |
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| A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tourism Industry |
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| Dr. Margaret Deery and Dr. Leo Jago |
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This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an
overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within
the tourism industry. This paper presents the literature on work-life balance issues and presents a
framework to examine ways to overcome the current lack of work-life balance, especially within
Australia. |
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| Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Poverty Reduction |
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| Dr. Larry Dwyer |
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Tourism is an important driver of growth and prosperity and, within developing countries, for
poverty reduction. According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), most new jobs in
developing countries are created in tourism industries. |
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| Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality of Life |
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| Mr. Sebastian Filep |
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Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received
much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These
prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very similar problems of these measures: the
unnecessary and inappropriate focus on expectations as a major influence on tourist satisfaction;... |
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| Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Management: Exploring the Meaning of Sustainable Destination Management |
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| Dr. David Foster |
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This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what
the literature has said about destination management as an approach for organisations responsible
for tourism destination development. |
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| Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation of Place: Issues of Affordable Housing |
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| Dr. Alison M. Gill |
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Global economic and political change has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration flows
resulting in unprecedented transformation in the form and condition of impacted communities
(Woods, 2006). This increase in human migration to areas of high quality recreational and tourism
resources is referred to as ‘amenity migration’ and includes both permanent and second home
residents (Hall and Williams, 2002; Moss, 2006). |
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| Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives on Tourism Precincts in Cities |
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| Mr. Tony Griffin, Dr. Deborah Edwards, Ms. Katie Schlenker and Dr. Bruce Hayllar |
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Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many
major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded
and enhanced by tourism and its associated developments. On the positive side, tourism can
generate significant job opportunities and income within the urban economy. |
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| A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Industries |
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| Dr. Claudia Jurowski |
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The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential
proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to
issues such as sustainability, energy management, green building design, waste reduction, water
saving practices and other topics related to social responsibility (International Tourism Partnership,
2007). |
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| Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events: The Case of the Danish Wadden Sea Festival |
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| Dr. Janne J. Liburd and Ms. Anja Hergesell |
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The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment
in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a
range of performances. The Wadden Sea Festival serves a dual purpose of enhancing local
residents’ sense of place and identity while also attracting visitors to the region. |
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| Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of Right-wing Extremism and Crime in the Former GDR |
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| Dr. Dagmar Lund-Durlacher |
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Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany
have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities
in these states have complained that these attacks harm their tourism figures. |
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| Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Change and their Strategies to Respond to Global Warming |
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| Mr. Xavier Matteucci and Dr. Dagmar Lund-Durlacher |
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This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change:
the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their
suggestions concerning possible actions that can be taken to reduce tourism's impacts on the
world climate and the actual actions implemented by their organizations. |
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| Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examination of the Benefits of Travel for Tourists |
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| Dr. Gianna Moscardo |
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Almost all the academic literature on tourism impacts has focussed on the consequences of
tourism for the destination and its residents. Very little attention has been paid to the impacts of
tourism on tourists. Virtually all cost-benefit analyses related to tourism have sought to balance the
costs and benefits of tourism for destinations. |
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| Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of HR Practices Within a New Zealand International Hotel |
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| Dr. Elizabeth Roberts, Mr. David Williamson and Dr. Carmen Cox |
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The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice
with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland,
New Zealand. The methodology included an analysis of qualitative data gleaned from exit
interviews with 166 hotel employees, structured interviews with key management informants, and
content analysis of written human resource policies pertaining to work/life balance. |
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| A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study of Social Utility of Sport Events |
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| Mr. Nico Schulenkorf |
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The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the last years, which led to an increasing
amount of research that has analysed both the economic and social impacts of sport events.
Whereas a substantial amount of ex post assessment frameworks for quantitative event evaluation
is available, there is growing demand for process orientated ex ante frameworks that guide the
strategic study of social utility of events. |
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| Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in Two Turkish Communities |
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| Dr. Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Dr. Muzzo S. Uysal and Dr. Turgut Var |
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During the last two decades, there has been increased focus on topics related to various aspects
of sustainable tourism. Believing that sustainable tourism can be a serious alternative that can
remedy some of the negative impacts associated with traditional tourism development, scholars
and main stream tourism journals have dedicated much time and space in publishing ustainability
related research. |
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| Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and Training in Ireland: Current Reality and Future Actions |
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| Ms. Jane Stacey, Dr. Sheila Flanagan, Dr. Kevin Griffin and Ms. Anna Tottle |
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The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish
tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive
research of secondary and tertiary education sectors across tourism and hospitality programmes in
Ireland, undertaken by the Tourism Research Centre at the Dublin Institute of echnology. The
research considers a range of programmes, including tourism, hospitality, culinary arts, event
management, leisure and business programmes with a tourism component. |
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| Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood Strategy in an Indigenous Community in Taiwan |
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| Dr. Teresa C.H. Tao and Dr. Geoffrey Wall |
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Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable
development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the
legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nevertheless, implementation has not been easy.
It is not always clear what is to be sustained and at what scale, or whether the concept refers to a
philosophy, a process, a program or a product, or all of these (Wall 1997, 2002). Furthermore, in
mediating tensions between environment and economy, the role of culture is typically underplayed
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| Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism Lead to the Convergence of Today’s Highly Diversified Tourist Offers? |
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| Dr. Maud Tixier |
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‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized
tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the
sustainability of their offer. One can henceforth ponder on the legitimacy of the names they
appropriate. The aim of the study is to assess the sustainability of their offer and eventually their
legitimacy in claiming themselves to be responsible. |
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| An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Life in Mordogan: A Case Study |
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| Dr. Turgut Var, Dr. Erhan Ada, Dr. Gökce Ozdemir and Dr. Deniz Hasirci |
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Quality of life studies are usually either objective or subjective in nature. Objective quality of life
studies concentrate on social indicators whereas subjective quality of life studies attempt to assess
the perceived satisfaction that individuals report experiencing in their lives. The assessment of
efforts to enhance the quality of life in Mordogan in terms of social indicators; decreasing
unemployment rate and poverty of local people will be the focal point of the study. |
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