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No.	Subject	Views	Date
61	Think Tank VIII Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H...	10102	Oct 13, 2013
61	The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an anal... Author: Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox Year: 2008
60	Think Tank XV Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...	11826	Jul 27, 2015
60	Firms are nowadays facing growing pressure from governments and environmental institutions to reduce their ecological footprint. While a growing number of empirical studies have examined the impact of green management policies on firms’ fina... Author: Christelle Cortese & Mondher Sahli Year: 2015
59	Think Tank XII The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...	14038	Nov 06, 2013
59	The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an... Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson Year: 2012
58	Think Tank VIII Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...	14046	Oct 13, 2013
58	Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev... Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall Year: 2008
57	Think Tank V Communicating with Visitors During and After a Natural...	14098	Oct 13, 2013
57	Tourism is often a significant component of a region or country’s economic, social, cultural and environmental well-being and a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tsunami, landslide, flood or bushfire may cause a range of impacts on the d... Author: E. Kate Armstrong Year: 2005
56	Think Tank XV Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...	15539	Jul 27, 2015
56	Tourism is a fragile industry with multiple stakeholders. Globally, the desire of its stakeholders is to gain more benefits and eliminate negative impacts on resources that support the industry, particularly in protected areas (PAs) such as ... Author: Richie Wandwi Year: 2015
55	Think Tank IV The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...	15638	Oct 13, 2013
55	Our premise in this paper is that if sustainable tourism development and management is to meet the needs of both the present and the future then it is equally important to prioritise research on those who visit tourism destinations (and incl... Author: Pat Sterry & Debra Leighton Year: 2004
54	Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation	15826	Jul 27, 2015
54	Scholarship on guiding and interpretation positions formal training as a central factor in guide instruction. Guide training operates in the area that mediates between personal characteristics, attitudes and knowledge of the guides and what ... Author: Julia N. Albrecht & Trisha Dwyer Year: 2015
53	Think Tank X Sustainable Destination Management and the Marketing-P...	15918	Oct 13, 2013
53	A traditional and widely held view is that a sustainable approach to destination planning and management ideally requires that marketing and product development are undertaken in an integrated manner. However, if we take just two activities... Author: Tazim Jamal & Dianne Dredge Year: 2010
52	Think Tank V Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...	16156	Oct 13, 2013
52	How to manage risks that endanger development of tourism but that are caused by tourism itself? An industry-based model is presented as an analytic tool and adapted to the situation in tourism. It is argued that development of tourism lacks ... Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Redzepovic Year: 2005
51	Think Tank X Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...	16352	Oct 13, 2013
51	Rapid growth in resort areas, combined with environmental and market stresses, has recently created concern amongst resort decision-makers about future paths of development. Growth models have operated effectively in maintaining resort comp... Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams Year: 2010
50	Think Tank XII Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...	16422	Nov 06, 2013
50	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
49	Think Tank IX Valuing water: Perceived differences in attitude and u...	16796	Oct 13, 2013
49	The recent explosion of second home development in tourism areas around the world is a reflection not only of the increased mobility of capital and people associated with the effects of globalization but also the development models employed ... Author: Alison M. Gill, Peter W. Williams & Shelagh Thompson Year: 2009
48	Think Tank XII Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...	17069	Nov 06, 2013
48	This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au... Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin Year: 2012
47	Think Tank XI Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...	17397	Oct 14, 2013
47	This abstract intends to present QUSS – an integrated Management System for Quality, Sustainability and Safety in theory and practice. QUSS was invented by the NGO Ecocamping and is thus basically applied on camp sites in Europe with focus ... Author: Tatjana Thimm Year: 2011
46	Think Tank XV Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...	17571	Jul 27, 2015
46	A number of recent incidents have focussed media attention on the phenomenon of tourist selfies, described their negative consequences for tourist destinations and identified a number of challenges for tourist site managers. This paper repor... Author: John Pearce & Gianna Moscardo Year: 2015
45	Think Tank IX The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...	17707	Oct 13, 2013
45	The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ... Author: Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher Year: 2009
44	Think Tank V Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane...	17881	Oct 13, 2013
44	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
43	Think Tank XIII Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...	17933	Nov 06, 2013
43	Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ... Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran Year: 2013
42	Think Tank X The Role of Knowledge-based Networks in Sustainable To...	18950	Oct 13, 2013
42	In practice, tourism organisations tend to be more serious towards their financial viability and therefore undermine long-term socio-cultural and environmental consequences. In so doing they impede their own ability and that of the destinat... Author: Ehsan Ahmed & Larry Dwyer Year: 2010

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