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Think Tank VII
Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...
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2139 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201...
Author: Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an...
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2460 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ethical questions related to globalization, human rights, unfair labor practices and trans-boundary exchanges of capital and work force create ever more complex challenges for the tourism sustainability agenda. In recent years, the tourism i...
Author: Camelia Tepelus
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism
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2526 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The antecedents of the modern outfitter are numerous and varied, reaching far back into mythology, allegoric literature, history, and geographic exploration. Throughout history, guides have played two distinct roles, the pathfinder and the m...
Author: Norma Nickerson
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
A Community of Heroes
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2873 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...
Author: Regina Binder
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
The Uptake of Innovation in Tourism Organisations: Bar...
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2892 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Innovation is fundamental to any industry in its quest to realising its potential. The tourism industry is no different in this pursuit of excellence and innovation but, unlike many other industries, it is largely comprised of small busines...
Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Innovative Technologies in Travel and Tourism - Toward...
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3205 | Oct 13, 2013 |
While it seems to be gradually dawning on humankind that the quality of our lives and (in extremis)survival of our and subsequent generations will depend to a significant extent on our ability and willingness to make urgent and significant ...
Author: Ivo Martinac
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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3890 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...
Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...
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4546 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Methods for researching the future have grown both in variety and rigour, offering new opportunities for understanding sustainable tourism. This paper discusses the value of futures research as a tool for envisioning and planning sustainable...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2007
OPA: 2007 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank VII
Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics
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4622 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tether (2003) describes innovation within service industries as having a Cinderella status - marginal and neglected. The traditional approach to thinking about innovation has been to concentrate on manufacturing and within that, the role of...
Author: Graham Miller & Caroline Scarles
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Rural Adventure Tourism and Social Entrepreneurship
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4793 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The intent of this research is to provide a comparative analysis of several innovative social entrepreneurial businesses operating within the realm of rural adventure tourism. This qualitative, case-based research explores six companies, wh...
Author: Christina Heyniger & Kristin Lamoureaux
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability...
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4817 | 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 VII
Innovations in Volunteer Tourism: A Case Study of Fund...
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5309 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The popularity of volunteer tourism as a form of alternative tourism has grown significantly over the past decade (McGehee, and Norman, 2002). Volunteer tourists can now be found throughout the world participating in a wide array of social, ...
Author: Kevin Lyons
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...
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5647 | Oct 13, 2013 |
"Operational definitions of tourism sustainability require details regarding what is to be sustained, for whom it is to be sustained, and the level at which it is to be sustained." This is the introductory sentence to "A Dynamic Model of Sus...
Author: Timothy Tyrrell & Robert Johnston
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...
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6074 | 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 VII
The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...
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6810 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The internationally acclaimed Blackstone Valley Tourism Council continues to create a sustainable visitor destination using whole place-making techniques. Under its auspices, the Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development Laboratory share...
Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter & Lilly Kayamba
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...
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7743 | 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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Think Tank VII
The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...
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7749 | 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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Think Tank VII
Environmentally Sustainable Practices of Victorian Tou...
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7965 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Environmental sustainability has been a growing concern in our society for the past twenty years, and is a primary issue of many leaders of the tourism industry. In spite of the many efforts to encourage and/or enforce environmentally sound ...
Author: Sue Beeton, Sue Bergin-Seers & Christine Lee
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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9118 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recent challenges within the hospitality industry highlight a critical need for research and innovation to inform management practice. Surprisingly, however, a comprehensive review of literature has found that innovation research within the...
Author: Conrad Lashley & Barry O'Mahony
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ...
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10304 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This article reports on an ongoing project that focuses on learning and innovation as prerequisites for sustainable tourism in a transnational environment defined by the European North Sea Region. According to Buhalis (2000: 113) providing i...
Author: Janne Liburd & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2007
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