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Author : Paige P. Schneider, Cynthia S. Deale & Svitlana Iarmolenko
School/Work Place : East Carolina University, USA (Paig Schneider, Cynthia Deale), Pennsylvania State University, USA (Svitlana Iarmolenko)
Contact : schneiderp@ecu.edu
Year : 2013

Sustaining rural America is one of today's pressing issues. With the decline of family operated farms and the move away from traditional extraction industries, word about the benefits of developing tourism in rural communities and regions is quickly spreading. This increased interest in tourism as a way to diversify the rural economy has also led to widespread interest in and need by local community leaders and governments for information about how to organize resources and systematically implement strategies for tourism development.

The current economic challenges require leaders in rural communities to seek innovative approaches to retain and create jobs. Sustainable tourism and ecotourism have been seen as viable options to diversify rural economies. The development of sustainable tourism requires the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership, to ensure wide participation and consensus building. This case study describes a project to engage communities, specifically community leaders who were members of the Roanoke River Mayors Association (RRMA) in the Roanoke River Valley Region (RRVR) in rural eastern North Carolina in the southeastern United States (U.S.), in their efforts to develop, establish, and implement strategies to create new forms of economic growth through tourism in the region as a whole and in their own communities.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
165 Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o... file 5247 Oct 13, 2013

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 ar...

Author: Alison M. Gill 

Year: 2008 

164 Think Tank XIV Sustainability and the Politics of Place in Resort Des... file 5251 Jun 26, 2014

The nature of a resort will reflect the varying coalitions, partnerships and discourses that emerge from the relative power of actors within the dominant political regime (Gill 2007). In this paper we examine the evolving discourse around th...

Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams 

Year: 2014 

163 Think Tank XV Perceptions of local communities participation in rura... file 5278 Jul 27, 2015

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 

162 Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees in Susta... file 5324 Oct 13, 2013

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has developed significantly over the last decade and has taken on a myriad of meanings. For many companies, it is a philosophy that helps guide their actions in the external environment. E...

Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago 

Year: 2006 

161 Think Tank XV Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen... file 5348 Jul 27, 2015

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 

160 Think Tank X Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a... file 5520 Oct 13, 2013

This paper discusses the contemporary meeting of three large-scale systems or processes - Agenda 21, the Internet and globalization - and what this historical conjunction means for networking sustainable tourism development. It is important...

Author: Gordon Sillence & Herbert Hamele 

Year: 2010 

159 Think Tank XII Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T... file 5522 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...

Author: Janne J. Liburd 

Year: 2012 

158 Think Tank IV After the Sydney Olympic Games: Sustainable Infrastruc... file 5548 Oct 13, 2013

Olympic Games epitomize the definition of a mega event, due to the size and scope that these events have in terms of participation, worldwide viewing and infrastructure development. However with the commercialization of these events over the...

Author: Sacha Reid 

Year: 2004 

157 Think Tank VI National Park as a Social Corporation file 5669 Oct 13, 2013

The issue is discussed how authorities of National Parks that aim to preserve biosphere can enlarge income. A review indicates that many Parks generate high income from tourism. A Dutch case illustrates that one can find sustainable innovat...

Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Christensen-Redzepovic 

Year: 2006 

156 Think Tank XIII Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ... file 5693 Nov 06, 2013

One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...

Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor 

Year: 2013 

155 Think Tank XII Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ... file 5714 Nov 06, 2013

As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...

Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King 

Year: 2012 

154 Think Tank VII Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl... file 5734 Oct 13, 2013

The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...

Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2007 

153 Think Tank XII Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:... file 5751 Nov 06, 2013

For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...

Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould 

Year: 2012 

152 Think Tank XII Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study... file 5758 Nov 06, 2013

This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...

Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin 

Year: 2012 

151 Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio... file 5843 Oct 13, 2013

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 an...

Author: Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2008 

150 Think Tank VII A Community of Heroes file 5900 Oct 13, 2013

Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...

Author: Regina Binder 

Year: 2007 

149 Think Tank XIV Heritage Trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in ... file 5902 Jun 26, 2014

One of the beneficial methodologies for growing and developing a level of tourism which is sustainable and enhances the totality of local and regional environments is a multi-stakeholder approach to tourism development. In this paper, we pre...

Author: Marko Koscak 

Year: 2014 

148 Think Tank IV The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th... file 5916 Oct 13, 2013

Our premise in this paper is that if sustainable tourism development and management is to meet the needs of both the present and the future then it is equally important to prioritise research on those who visit tourism destinations (and incl...

Author: Pat Sterry & Debra Leighton 

Year: 2004 

» Think Tank XIII Regional Collaboration as the Conduit for Sustainable ... file 5918 Nov 06, 2013

Sustaining rural America is one of today's pressing issues. With the decline of family operated farms and the move away from traditional extraction industries, word about the benefits of developing tourism in rural communities and regions is...

Author: Paige P. Schneider, Cynthia S. Deale & Svitlana Iarmolenko 

Year: 2013 

146 Think Tank XII Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai... file 5935 Nov 06, 2013

Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...

Author: Attama Nilnoppkun 

Year: 2012 

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