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Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.
Throughout the last two decades, the tourism industry has changed due to the revolutionary development in the realm of information and communication technologies (ICT) (Amaro & Duate, 2013; Law et al., 2004; Minghetti & Buhalis, 2010...
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe
Year: 2017
The emergence of information technology has a profound impact on tourism industry. Today, visitors are more inclined to have searched the Internet to gain more pre-tour knowledge for the destinations than before. The advances of the various ...
Author: Daisy Suk-fong FUNG
Rock art is found across the world and is a unique heritage which is divided into three main categories; rock paintings (pictographs), rock engravings, (petroglyphs), and geoglyphs (natural objects used as designs) (Anati, 1993; Clottes, 199...
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
The tourism sector is vital for the development of small island developing states. However, climate change can negatively impact on tourism demand and affect these economies both on the economic and social level. The purpose of this study is...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, Boopen Seetanah, Robin Sannassee & Robin Nunkoo
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
Tourism is the fourth largest economic contributor globally and outperforms the growth of the world economy (United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 2013). But tourism growth comes at a cost. Not surprisingly, therefore, tourism i...
Author: Sara Dolnicar & Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar & Bettina Grun
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
This paper examines visual design language used in the New Zealand wine industry to communicate values of sustainability. The contribution critically discusses how industry values are physically manifested in and communicated through imager...
Author: Tobias Danielmeier
Year: 2016
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Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel
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
Author: Verity Anne Greenwood
There is an increasing concern for environmental and social issues among international travelers. As a consequence, many tourist corporations have been exploring the implementation of Social Responsibility (SR) policies as a tool to gain co...
Author: Jorge E. Araña, Gianluca Goffi & Carmelo J. León
The extensive growth of the tourism sector entails both beneficial economic contribution and negative environmental and socio-economic impacts. In order to protect the resources tourism is based upon, greater levels of sustainability are ne...
Author: Christina Tölkes
Author: Isabel Lissner & Marius Mayer
Author: Zehrer Anita
Businesses committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are guided by policy that focuses on the integration of social and environmental concerns in all aspects of business strategy and practice (Lund-Durlacher, 2015). This paper cons...
Author: Tamara Young & Amy Maguire
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) play a more and more crucial role in the development of hotel business. A study of the French hotel company Accor shows, that sustainability is a determining factor of ...
Author: Matthias Straub
Author: Nicole Häusler & Kathrin Dischereit
There has always been a disparity between active mining and tourism mainly due to the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mines on both the adjacent resident communities and the areas taken up by the mining operation. Although herit...
Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels
This paper identifies and explains roles, functions and structures in visitor management of protected areas in nature-based tourism in New Zealand. Establishing the benefits and disadvantages arising from the implementation of any particula...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht