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).

Ecotourism presents a small segment of nature-tourism, which is understood as travelling to relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated natural areas (G
ssling, 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.

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.

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...

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).

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...

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.

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.

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.

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;...

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (Wall 1993).

‘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.

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.