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No.	Subject	Views	Date
22	Think Tank XV Inclusive tourism business models: A comparative analy...	4060	Jul 27, 2015
22	Mitchell and Ashley state that the “bulk of pro-poor tourism literature has not aimed at measuring impact… [and] is indeed recognized as a weakness in the pro-poor tourism literature by its proponents” (2010:5). The research paper aims to qu... Author: Andrew Rylance Year: 2015
21	Think Tank XV The role of interpretation in mindfulness/mindlessness...	6211	Jul 27, 2015
21	Cultural tourism is recently receiving increasing attention from southern African countries (The South African National Heritage and Cultural Tourism Strategy, 2012; Van Veuren, 2001). Cultural tourism is promoted as a local development stra... Author: Haretsebe Manwa, Dudu Boemah & Emile Coetzee Year: 2015
20	Think Tank XV Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among...	5022	Jul 27, 2015
20	Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb... Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger Year: 2015
19	Think Tank XV A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...	7929	Jul 27, 2015
19	Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins... Author: Amy Savener Year: 2015
18	Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation	4534	Jul 27, 2015
18	Scholarship on guiding and interpretation positions formal training as a central factor in guide instruction. Guide training operates in the area that mediates between personal characteristics, attitudes and knowledge of the guides and what ... Author: Julia N. Albrecht & Trisha Dwyer Year: 2015
17	Think Tank XV Can we eat it? Exploring the cultural challenges in ma...	3941	Jul 27, 2015
17	Can we eat it? How did you stop the waves? Is there water in there? Where is the switch to turn it off? Will it eat me? These are just some of the many questions asked by visitors to uShaka Sea World in Durban, South Africa. While South Afri... Author: Judy Mann & Roy Ballantyne & Jan Packer Year: 2015
16	Think Tank XV The role of souvenir vendors in the cultural sustainab...	4078	Jul 27, 2015
16	The research investigated the role of souvenir vendors in sustaining the social-cultural authenticity of Chichen Itza’s host community, a Mexican UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) (UNESCO, 2015a). The case study evaluated the Maya-descent ven... Author: Ady Milman Year: 2015
15	Think Tank XV Luxury and Sustainability in Tourism Accommodation – a...	4225	Jul 27, 2015
15	This paper examines the relationship between luxury and sustainability in tourism using a case study of the Soneva Group, which has two luxurious eco resorts in Maldives and Thailand. The aim of this paper is to determine whether luxury and ... Author: Derek Robbins & Justyna Gaczorek Year: 2015
14	Think Tank XV Conserving biodiversity as tourism (including wildlife...	4330	Jul 27, 2015
14	Governments throughout Australia and elsewhere recognise that tourism is an important sector of the economy, and are encouraging its growth in a variety of ways, some more environmentally sound than others. This papers presents not the resul... Author: Ronda J Green Year: 2015
13	Think Tank XV Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...	7817	Jul 27, 2015
13	The holiday property market has seen a genuine boom in the last years with second homes being an integral part of today’s tourism and an important pillar in the accommodation sector. Today second homes are seen as an enabler for destination ... Author: Anita Zehrer Year: 2015
12	Think Tank XV The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat...	2929	Jul 27, 2015
12	Over the last decades, social enterprises have increasingly gained importance in the travel and tourism industry and they are revolutionizing the way business is done. Instead of maximizing profits for external shareholders, a social enterpr... Author: Sebastian Ferrari & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher Year: 2015
11	Think Tank XV The operational challenges of community-based tourism ...	15378	Jul 27, 2015
11	Community-based tourism is increasingly being developed and promoted as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries assisting local communities to meet their needs through the offering of a tourism product. The Swaziland Tourism Auth... Author: S. E. Lukhele & K. F. Mearns Year: 2015
10	Think Tank XV Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...	2836	Jul 27, 2015
10	Firms are nowadays facing growing pressure from governments and environmental institutions to reduce their ecological footprint. While a growing number of empirical studies have examined the impact of green management policies on firms’ fina... Author: Christelle Cortese & Mondher Sahli Year: 2015
9	Think Tank XV A modified value chainanalysisoftourism development in...	4820	Jul 27, 2015
9	Tourism development in a relatively unknown country is faced with various challenges. The difficulty is not only choosing an appropriate tourism development strategy but also managing it in a complex sociocultural, economic and political env... Author: Sonja Frommenwiler & Péter Varga Year: 2015 OPA: Runner Up Outstanding Paper Award
8	Think Tank XV Perceptions of local communities participation in rura...	4591	Jul 27, 2015
8	In order to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs, rural communities should be able to participate actively in all aspects of tourism, including planning and management. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the local communit... Author: Limpho Lekaota & Jarkko Saarined Year: 2015
7	Think Tank XV Rural renewal or requiem? Establishing new creative ve...	2302	Jul 27, 2015
7	During the past decades, concern for rural poverty and underdevelopment of the rural communities of Namibia has been central to government development efforts. This has further given rise to several rural development programmes. While, some ... Author: Erling Kavita Year: 2015
6	Think Tank XV Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...	4595	Jul 27, 2015
6	A number of recent incidents have focussed media attention on the phenomenon of tourist selfies, described their negative consequences for tourist destinations and identified a number of challenges for tourist site managers. This paper repor... Author: John Pearce & Gianna Moscardo Year: 2015
5	Think Tank XV Why Africans do not visit their national parks: A case...	6860	Jul 27, 2015
5	Present-day Western approaches relating to nature and natural resources management assume that humans are independent from the natural world (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). Protected areas such as Yellowstone National Park were created with ... Author: Lesego S. Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane Year: 2015
4	Think Tank XV Protected areas and community wildlife-based tourism i...	1835	Jul 27, 2015
4	Tourism planning in protected areas (PAs) entails addressing two partly competing and overlapping goals: preserving heritage and providing access. Resolving potential conflicts between these two goals is particularly challenging at the inter... Author: MorenTibabo Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane Year: 2015
3	Think Tank XV Deconstruction of Man-nature Dialogue Nexus: A Critica...	10370	Jul 27, 2015
3	The relationship between man and nature dates back to the millennia. The intimacy of man-nature interaction increased with decreasing healthy nature, as man’s insatiable desire to know and control nature as a commodity becomes more dynamical... Author: Michael Kweku Commeh Year: 2015

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