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Key words: sustainable urban tourism, urban regeneration, precincts, Johannesburg Maboneng
Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels & Emma J Pearse
Year: 2018
This paper employs a dynamic time series econometrics framework, namely a vector error correction model (VECM), to investigate the link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourist arrivals in Mauritius for the period 1980-2015. The r...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, & Boopen Seetanah
Year: 2017
Key words: tourism association, inclusive development, tourism marketing
Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns
Earlier studies have stimulated much debate regarding enclave tourism development in developing countries (Britton 1982). However, it is increasingly being acknowledged that despite criticisms, all forms of tourism have the potential to cont...
Author: Perunjodi Naidoo
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Author: Isabel Lissner & Marius Mayer
Year: 2016
Although the discussion on Accessible Tourism has increased in intensity over the past 20 years, and by now there are even a few examples of Good Practices being implemented, it nevertheless must be pointed out that this approach is not yet ...
Author: Andreas Kagermeier
This study investigates environmental attitudes and concerns of Germans tourists towards climate change. Furthermore it analyses if there are attempts to neutralise air travel emissions by means of voluntary carbon-offsetting. Past research...
Author: Isabell Wulfsberg, Dirk Reiser, Volker Rundshagen & Nicolai Scherle
The sustainability concept has become popular after it was first used in almost three decades ago in what is now a renowned report, Our Common Future by Brundtland’s World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987). Although much...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Seyhmuz Baloglu & Haywantee Rumi Ramkissoon
Key words: Sustainable Tourism Products, Sustainable tourism certification schemes, Certification
Author: Martin Balas & Wolfgang Strasdas
Food consumption is seen by most tourists as an important part of their holiday and tourism often takes place in ecologically, socially and culturally sensitive destinations. Through food consumption, it is not only possible to support heal...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Hannes Antonschmidt & Klaus-Peter Fritz
Key words: protected areas, resilience thinking, sustainability, marketing, tool
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
Many Australian tourism ventures today promote Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge (AIBK) (Pert, Ens, Locke, Clarke, Packer & Turpin, 2015) through bush-tucker tours, interpretive displays in cultural centres, arts and crafts, et...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Mark Harvey & Ian D. Clark & Tamara Young
Responsible tourism incorporates economic, environmental and social imperatives in accordance with ‘sustainable tourism’ notions (Booyens & Rogerson, 2016a). This research argues that tourism firms need to innovate in order to be economi...
Author: Irma Booyens and Christian M. Rogerson
Key words: tourism; climate change; adaptation; coast; Sihanoukville; Cambodia Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-...
Author: Tinat Nhep, Mondher Sahli and Christian Schott
Year: 2019
The world is changing into a place where broader spectra of responsibilities are now being embraced. A significant realisation has grown throughout the world that the Earth’s natural resources are scarce. Industrialisation and economic grow...
Author: Candice Hunter & Kevin Mearns
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
Key words: marketing, research-based evidence, partnership, rural tourism, city tourism, sustainability
Author: Yukari Higuchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka & Hiroaki Hoshi
As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; T...
Author: Mingming Chen, Deborah Edward, Simon Darcy
Increasingly, literature has depicted food tourism as a powerful contributor to the ‘triple bottom line’ of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in rural communities (e.g. Sidali et al., 2015; Sims, 2009; Everret & Aitchson...
Author: Yukari Higuchi & Yasuhiro Yamanaka
This study addresses the threat of climate change impacts on the sustainability of the economic benefits for, and environmental assets of, tourism destinations. It discusses the challenges for both the demand and supply side of tourism to fo...
Author: Nancy Scanlon
Year: 2005