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Think Tank XVI
Examining Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism: ...
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136 | Jul 02, 2016 |
One of the biggest challenges facing the tourism industry and policy makers is the emerging and fast growing ‘sharing economy’. Keeping abreast of this, disruptive but potentially transformative phenomenon has been challenging for industry,...
Author: Stephen Wearing & Kevin Lyons
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Empowering communities and enabling conservation: Revi...
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139 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The Africa Foundation a non-profit organization was founded in 1992 when Conservation Corporation Africa (since renamed and rebranded to &Beyond) was founded in South Africa. A central principle of the Conservation Corporation, safari l...
Author: Kevin Mearns
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
The moderating role of values in planned behaviour: th...
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141 | Jul 02, 2016 |
In the past five years, we (a group of researchers from the Leeds Becket University and the Open University of Catalonia) have been working on different studies about the CSR motivations, barriers and practices in tourism small and medium e...
Author: Lluís Garay, Xavier Font & August Francesc Corrons
Year: 2016
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411 |
Think Tank XVI
Assessing the sustainability reporting of a JSE compan...
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151 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The world is changing into a place where broader spectra of responsibilities are now being embraced. A significant realisation has grown throughout the world that the Earth’s natural resources are scarce. Industrialisation and economic grow...
Author: Candice Hunter & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Analysing CSR Practices in Food Operations: A case stu...
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152 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Food consumption is seen by most tourists as an important part of their holiday and tourism often takes place in ecologically, socially and culturally sensitive destinations. Through food consumption, it is not only possible to support heal...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Hannes Antonschmidt & Klaus-Peter Fritz
Year: 2016
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409 |
Think Tank XVII
Finding and Fostering Our Future Tourism Leaders: Unde...
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152 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The hospitality and tourism industry is facing a serious skilled manpower shortage globally, and the best way to meet the manpower needs of the industry is through training and education. The shortage of skilled talent is a global issue in t...
Author: Grace K.S. Ho & Rob Law
Year: 2017
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408 |
Think Tank XVII
Responsible tourism and innovation practices by touris...
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153 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Responsible tourism incorporates economic, environmental and social imperatives in accordance with ‘sustainable tourism’ notions (Booyens & Rogerson, 2016a). This research argues that tourism firms need to innovate in order to be economi...
Author: Irma Booyens and Christian M. Rogerson
Year: 2017
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407 |
Think Tank XVI
A study of innovation in the making CARMACAL and the D...
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155 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Harald Buijtendijk, Jorine Vermeer & Juultje Blom
Year: 2016
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406 |
Think Tank XVI
Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Germany – Ove...
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155 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Certification schemes for sustainable tourism can be seen as a key voluntary instrument to measure, verify and communicate the CSR management and performance of tourism businesses. Today a large number of such schemes can be found around th...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
Year: 2016
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405 |
Think Tank XVI
Can Tourism Businesses Foster Better Inclusion for Peo...
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159 | Jul 02, 2016 |
It is difficult to deny that despite its increased popularity, the concept of social entrepreneurship has not received a clearer understanding in a theoretical context. Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, and Shulman (2009) list 20 definitions of s...
Author: Kristof Tomej
Year: 2016
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404 |
Think Tank XVI
Influencing sustainability through engagement in polic...
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161 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The ability of businesses to influence the sustainability of tourism development is generally examined from two standpoints: the regulatory frameworks requiring particular actions with respect to how business is carried out, or to clients; ...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2016
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403 |
Think Tank XVI
Volunteering and donations for biodiversity conservati...
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163 | Jul 02, 2016 |
In 2010, the newly elected government of New Zealand, of neo-liberal orientation, has adopted its Business Growth Agenda. This has been implemented through a series of legal, policy and organizational changes, affecting the governance of th...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2016
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402 |
Think Tank XVI
In Search of a New Mindset to Underpin Tourism Develop...
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169 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Despite widespread recognition of the importance of all tourism stakeholders adopting sustainability attitudes and practices, with a huge descriptive and prescriptive literature highlighting ‘best practice’, things seem to be getting worse....
Author: Larry Dwyer & Verity Anne Greenwood
Year: 2016
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401 |
Think Tank XVI
Spirituality and corporate social responsibility in to...
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169 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This ongoing study investigates the role of spirituality for corporate social responsibility (CSR) by tourism businesses in lesser developed countries and the implications this has at the destination level. While much of the world’s tourism...
Author: Alexandra Law, Putu Indah Rahmawati & Terry De Lacy
Year: 2016
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400 |
Think Tank XVII
Making hotel guests voluntarily waive daily room cleaning
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169 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Tourism is the fourth largest economic contributor globally and outperforms the growth of the world economy (United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 2013). But tourism growth comes at a cost. Not surprisingly, therefore, tourism i...
Author: Sara Dolnicar & Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar & Bettina Grun
Year: 2017
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399 |
Think Tank XVI
eTraining for Sustainable Tourism: Investing in Skills...
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173 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This proposed presentation examines the current state of “eTraining” opportunities (e.g. distance learning programs, online courses, live seminars) supporting professional skills development for tourism professionals, with a particular focu...
Author: Ayako Ezaki
Year: 2016
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398 |
Think Tank XVII
Investigating the relationship between FDI and Tourism...
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174 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper employs a dynamic time series econometrics framework, namely a vector error correction model (VECM), to investigate the link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourist arrivals in Mauritius for the period 1980-2015. The r...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, & Boopen Seetanah
Year: 2017
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397 |
Think Tank XVII
Lack of transparency - a barrier for the diffusion of ...
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175 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Throughout the last two decades, the tourism industry has changed due to the revolutionary development in the realm of information and communication technologies (ICT) (Amaro & Duate, 2013; Law et al., 2004; Minghetti & Buhalis, 2010...
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe
Year: 2017
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396 |
Think Tank XVII
Collaborative knowledge production development and act...
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175 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Increasingly, literature has depicted food tourism as a powerful contributor to the ‘triple bottom line’ of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in rural communities (e.g. Sidali et al., 2015; Sims, 2009; Everret & Aitchson...
Author: Yukari Higuchi & Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Year: 2017
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395 |
Think Tank XVI
Polar bears, Climate Change, CSR and Sustainable Tourism
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176 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Jeremy Pearce
Year: 2016
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