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Think Tank XII
Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...
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35448 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ...
Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Runner Up
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Think Tank VII
Tourist Perceptions of Environmentally Friendly Innova...
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24610 | Oct 13, 2013 |
As the environmental movement got underway and environmental awareness came into focus in the late 20th century, the tourism industry began incorporating 'environmentally friendly' efforts into their business practices. Requests for towel r...
Author: Kathleen L. Andereck
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XI
Education as a Visitor Management Technique in Remote ...
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16018 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Remote protected areas are often vulnerable to impacts by visitors. This is generally due to the dual implications of remoteness: a) the area's ecosystems remaining largely undisturbed by human activity (Carey, Dudley and Stolton, 2000) and...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2011
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OPA award
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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10044 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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7955 | 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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Think Tank X
Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...
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7490 | 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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Think Tank XIV
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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7235 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank VIII
Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...
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7066 | 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 VII
Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...
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6110 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This is a study of the relationships between two volunteer tourism host communities and the volunteer tourists who visit them. One is a declining rural community located in the Appalachian mountains of the United States. The other is in a ra...
Author: Nancy McGehee
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XII
Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme...
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5485 | Nov 06, 2013 |
While there has been a developing interest in mobilities amongst tourism scholars, the notion of immobilities has often been ignored. Yet, there are many people who do not participate in tourism or, if they do, only experience partial mobili...
Author: Jennifer Small
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XIII
Modeling the Index Components of Tourist Satisfaction ...
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5349 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Destination performance evaluation has become an increasingly important task for effective destination management and sustainable destination development. However, it is a complex task due to the inclusion of diverse subsectors, business com...
Author: Toney K. Thomas
Year: 2013
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Think Tank XII
Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par...
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5332 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...
Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal
Year: 2012
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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 XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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4941 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism at a destination is dependent on the maintenance and good management of its attractive assets. In non-urban areas, the assets will primarily be geological, natural and/or cultural, frequently of a sensitive nature, liable...
Author: David Ward-Perkins & Frédéric Dimanche
Year: 2012
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Think Tank V
Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane...
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4919 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper examines the coverage of Hurricane Ivan in the Caribbean published in selected leading UK newspapers in September 2004. Quantitative textual analysis have been utilised in this study to determine the main sources of information on...
Author: Marcella Daye
Year: 2005
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Think Tank VIII
Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...
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4906 | 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 VII
Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability...
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4849 | Oct 13, 2013 |
With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T...
Author: Daniel Fesenmaier
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XV
Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among...
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4179 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb...
Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger
Year: 2015
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Think Tank XIII
City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V...
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4019 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The level of interest and participation in voluntourism has progressively become a major sector in contemporary tourism. The notion of combining a novel and pleasurable tourism experience with the fulfillment of contributing a worthwhile cau...
Author: Eunice Tan
Year: 2013
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Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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3972 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Surf beach drowning is an example of a tourist injury problem in Australia. In this paper, a process is outlined to identify and tease out the roles and relationships among causal risk factors, markers of risk, and components of risk exposur...
Author: Damian Morgan
Year: 2005
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