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No.	Subject	Views	Date
26	Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...	8010	Dec 19, 2013
26	This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti... Author: Kitsada Tungchawal Year: 2008
25	Think Tank VIII A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...	3983	Oct 13, 2013
25	This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within the tourism industry. This paper present... Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago Year: 2008 OPA: 2008 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
24	Think Tank VIII Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...	6668	Oct 13, 2013
24	Extensive infrastructure and client expectations of luxury will mean that their carbon footprint and water usage is likely to exceed significantly that of average urban households. Often located in coastal or riverine settings, they are vuln... Author: Charles Arcodia & Chantal Dickson Year: 2008
23	Think Tank VIII Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o...	8943	Oct 13, 2013
23	In this paper we take the standpoint that environmental education and ecotourism are highly related and depend on each other, and that ecotourism cannot be achieved without proper environmental education. Furthermore, in order to achieve qu... Author: Mojca Arsenijevic & Marko Bohanec Year: 2008
22	Think Tank VIII Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...	9363	Oct 13, 2013
22	Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ... Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu Year: 2008
21	Think Tank VIII Emerging Green Tourists: Their Behaviours and Attitudes	5160	Oct 13, 2013
21	The concerns are varied and are not necessarily important to all tourists and the influence they have on sustaining the industry is unknown. For years the tourism industry has used a number of mechanisms in an attempt to green operators. The... Author: Sue Bergin-Seers & Judith Mair Year: 2008
20	Think Tank VIII Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: Th...	3528	Oct 13, 2013
20	As an international tourism destination, Turkey serves mostly European tourist markets due to her closeness to European markets. Turkey and Europe has a long shared history of relationships. However, Turkey and Turkish people have a rather b... Author: Yasin Boylu, Asli D. A. Tasci & William C. Gartner Year: 2008
19	Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...	8095	Oct 13, 2013
19	This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ... Author: Miha Bratec Year: 2008
18	Think Tank VIII Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the F...	5181	Oct 13, 2013
18	Lifestyle has been oft cited in the literature as the main motivation for those establishing or acquiring tourism related businesses in attractive destinations. However, the term has many different dimensions and connotations, both positive... Author: Jack Carlsen & Alison Morrison Year: 2008
17	Think Tank VIII Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...	7009	Oct 13, 2013
17	This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ... Author: Larry Dwyer Year: 2008
16	Think Tank VIII Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...	5052	Oct 13, 2013
16	Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very sim... Author: Sebastian Filep Year: 2008
15	Think Tank VIII Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...	70998	Oct 13, 2013
15	This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag... Author: David Foster Year: 2008
14	Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o...	3578	Oct 13, 2013
14	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
13	Think Tank VIII Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...	7169	Oct 13, 2013
13	Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated... Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar Year: 2008
12	Think Tank VIII A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind...	3013	Oct 13, 2013
12	The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green b... Author: Claudia Jurowski Year: 2008
11	Think Tank VIII Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events:...	104189	Oct 13, 2013
11	The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a range of performances. The Wadden Sea Fest... Author: Janne J. Liburd & Anja Hergesell Year: 2008
10	Think Tank VIII Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of...	2266	Oct 13, 2013
10	Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att... Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher Year: 2008
9	Think Tank VIII Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Chang...	3550	Oct 13, 2013
9	This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change: the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their suggestions concerning possible actions that can be tak... Author: Xavier Matteucci & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher Year: 2008
8	Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...	3332	Oct 13, 2013
8	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
7	Think Tank VIII Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H...	3098	Oct 13, 2013
7	The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an anal... Author: Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox Year: 2008

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