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Key words: local residents, seasonality, mass tourism, sustainability, tourism development
In the past five years, we (a group of researchers from the Leeds Becket University and the Open University of Catalonia) have been working on different studies about the CSR motivations, barriers and practices in tourism small and medium e...
Author: Lluís Garay, Xavier Font & August Francesc Corrons
Year: 2016
It is difficult to deny that despite its increased popularity, the concept of social entrepreneurship has not received a clearer understanding in a theoretical context. Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, and Shulman (2009) list 20 definitions of s...
Author: Kristof Tomej
This study explores why family firms adopt social and ecological policies that go beyond regulations, which includes hard (e.g., law; Berrone et al., 2010) or soft (e.g., certificates; Rivera, 2002) regulations. To accomplish this, the stud...
Author: Johanna Zanon, Andreas Kallmuenzer, William Nikolakis & Mike Peters
As the duties and behaviour of organizations within the tourism industry evolve to accommodate expectations of pro-sustainable business change, so too does the role and responsibility of employees within these organisations. As key actors i...
Author: Kelsy Hejjas, Caroline Scarles & Graham Miller
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Author: Harald Buijtendijk, Jorine Vermeer & Juultje Blom
Certification schemes for sustainable tourism can be seen as a key voluntary instrument to measure, verify and communicate the CSR management and performance of tourism businesses. Today a large number of such schemes can be found around th...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
In the tourism industry, whilst some companies have taken active steps towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), others are yet to adopt a responsible approaching to business. According to Betz (2010), CSR is a relatively new concept i...
Author: Susanne Reimann & Sandro Carnicelli
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Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel
Tourism is a major activity for some Mediterranean economies. While the growth of tourism over the last few decades has had many positive effects, it has also harmed the environment when this growth has not been planned in a sustainable way...
Author: Arayeh Afsordegan, Mar Vila, NúriaAgell, Mónica Sánchez
Author: Limpho Lekaota
Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued expansion; it is considered one of the fastest growing economy sectors in the world. Modern tourism is closely associated to development of the host-community and its surroundings. Coopera...
Author: Gabriela Estrella, Myrta Zemp & Urs Wagenseil
On December 11th, 2015 climate change negotiations came to a close after the COP21 – 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Across media channels and climate protests the event was referred to as “the last chance summit”, w...
Author: Bonnie Lewtas & René Schmidpeter
Tourism destinations have a responsibility to preserve their own mainstay. Sustainable product development can aid the longevity of a destination by supporting local environmental, social and economic aspects. This, however, requires a coord...
Author: Fabian Weber & Barbara Taufer
Author: Jeremy Pearce
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
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
Author: Nicole Häusler & Kathrin Dischereit
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
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
Author: Zehrer Anita