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Think Tank VIII
Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of...
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2179 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...
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2301 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev...
Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind...
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2827 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism ...
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2957 | Oct 13, 2013 |
‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the sustainability of their offer. One can henc...
Author: Maud Tixier
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H...
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2970 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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Think Tank VIII
Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...
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3202 | 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
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o...
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3367 | 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
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Think Tank VIII
Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: Th...
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3382 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Chang...
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3457 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Lif...
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3795 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Quality of life studies are usually either objective or subjective in nature. Objective quality of life studies concentrate on social indicators whereas subjective quality of life studies attempt to assess the perceived satisfaction that in...
Author: Turgut Var, Erhan Ada, Gökce Ozdemir & Deniz Hasirci
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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3858 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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4828 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...
Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...
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4904 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the F...
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5056 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Emerging Green Tourists: Their Behaviours and Attitudes
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5058 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in T...
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5472 | Oct 13, 2013 |
During the last two decades, there has been increased focus on topics related to various aspects of sustainable tourism. Believing that sustainable tourism can be a serious alternative that can remedy some of the negative impacts associated ...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Muzzo S. Uysal & Turgut Var
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...
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6390 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...
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6854 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...
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7065 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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7807 | Dec 19, 2013 |
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
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