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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
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
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
This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I...
Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul
As a contribution to BEST Education Network ThinkTank V, Managing Riskand Crisis for Sustainable Tourism, the following paper has been prepared in two parts. The first part of the paper focuses on the idea that an appropriate model can be de...
Author: Scott K. Cunliffe
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
The primary rationale for embedding values-based learning in tourism higher education is to engage students’ learning-to-learn and learning-to-be, rather than simply learning about a topic, such as tourism management or sustainability (Libur...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Janne J. Liburd & Jaume Guia
Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand
Author: Julia Nina Albrecht
Year: 2018
David's presentation outlines the major market failures in tourism production and consumption and questions the changing role of (public sector) governments in market regulation and ‘economic’ development. The presentation focuses specifical...
Author: David G. Simmons
Tourism is especially vulnerable to disasters and, being fragmented, often its response is difficult to initiate and coordinate. It is also information intensive and when in chaos its information needs are exacerbated. The paper aims to deve...
Author: Nina Mistilis & Pauline Sheldon