334 |
Think Tank VI
Hilton Environmental Reporting as a Tool of Corporate ...
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7964 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on the history, criteria and procedures within Hilton Environmental Reporting, a computerized reporting tool created by Addsystems for Hilton International. The development and implementation process of the upgraded versi...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz
Year: 2006
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333 |
Think Tank XII
Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun...
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7956 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ...
Author: Julia Albrecht
Year: 2012
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332 |
Think Tank XI
CRS 2.0: Management Perspectives of Sustainable Hospit...
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7954 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In recent years, hotel companies have recognized the importance of engaging in responsible business practices as they relate to stakeholders including employees, guests, and the communities in which their properties are located. Accordingly...
Author: Stuart E. Levy & Sun-Young Park
Year: 2011
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331 |
Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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7951 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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330 |
OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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7948 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...
Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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329 |
Think Tank VI
Testing Clarkson’s Typical Corporate and Stakeholder I...
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7878 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In today’s world of growing concern over the social and environmental effect of tourism, the responsibility for the future of our society is moving from simply relying on our political leaders and interest groups towards the concept that cor...
Author: Catrina Papaleo & Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
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328 |
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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327 |
Think Tank VII
The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...
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7803 | Oct 13, 2013 |
"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character...
Author: Alan A. Lew
Year: 2007
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326 |
Think Tank VI
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....
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7777 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on an element of an ongoing research project undertaken since 1999 in relation to the effects of film-induced tourism on a small community based in North Yorkshire, England, namely Goathland. Goathland is better known to ...
Author: Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
OPA: 2006 Runner Up
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325 |
Think Tank VII
Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...
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7763 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Tec...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Deborah Edwards, Nina Mistilis, & Carolina Roman
Year: 2007
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324 |
Think Tank IX
Malay Small Family Business Values
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7750 | Dec 19, 2013 |
In Malaysia approximately 90% of the businesses are categorized as small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The majority of these small businesses are family owned and make a significant contribution to Malaysian Gross Domestic Product. The prev...
Author: Askiah Jamaluddin & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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323 |
OPA award
Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...
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7691 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract...
Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter
Year: 2006
OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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322 |
Think Tank XVII
Residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism in Mauri...
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7663 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper examines residents' perception on sustainable tourism in Mauritius. 500 surveys were elaborated and circulated to the respondents. This research examines the connections between the demographic variables gender, age, instruction l...
Author: Bhavish Jugurnath & Roucheet Bissessur & Youvish Ramjattan & Devendra Bissessur
Year: 2017
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321 |
Think Tank X
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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7625 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc...
Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford
Year: 2010
OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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320 |
Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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7491 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ...
Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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319 |
Think Tank X
Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...
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7488 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci...
Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand
Year: 2010
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318 |
Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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7443 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2009
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317 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...
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7344 | Jun 26, 2014 |
In this study, I take up the task to work towards a theoretical and methodological framework that allows using sustainability as a threshold concept for critically evaluating the assumptions embedded in both tourism management theory and pra...
Author: José-Carlos García-Rosell
Year: 2014
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316 |
OPA award
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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7261 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2005
OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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315 |
Think Tank XV
Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...
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7241 | Jul 27, 2015 |
The holiday property market has seen a genuine boom in the last years with second homes being an integral part of today’s tourism and an important pillar in the accommodation sector. Today second homes are seen as an enabler for destination ...
Author: Anita Zehrer
Year: 2015
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