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Think Tank IX
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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34070 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper evaluates cultural conflicts between indigenous groups, recreation users and management agencies over the appropriate amenity use of protected areas in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It assesses both social values conflicts ...
Author: Heather Zeppel
Year: 2009
OPA: 2009 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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10671 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st...
Author: Marina Novelli
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8416 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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8085 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...
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8055 | Oct 13, 2013 |
“Courchevel is first and foremost one among the founding elements of the huge touristic complex of les Trois Vallées in France. Linked to the neighbouring Allues and Belleville valleys by a 3,000 acres network area of regularly packed and ma...
Author: Daniel Tixier
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...
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8041 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper explores the concept of quality of life (QOL) as perceived by residents in tourism destinations and examines differences in perceptions of QOL among culturally different destinations. The perceived QOL of local community is an imp...
Author: Yvette Reisinger & Kwang-Soo Park
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Malay Small Family Business Values
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7736 | Dec 19, 2013 |
In Malaysia approximately 90% of the businesses are categorized as small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The majority of these small businesses are family owned and make a significant contribution to Malaysian Gross Domestic Product. The prev...
Author: Askiah Jamaluddin & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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7470 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ...
Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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7404 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank IX
Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...
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6990 | Oct 13, 2013 |
What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,...
Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...
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6517 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank IX
The elusiveness of sustainability in tourism: The cult...
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6281 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism is perhaps the most prominent feature of contemporary tourism discourse. However, despite its prominence for several decades, achieving sustainability remains as elusive as ever. This paper explores the concept of the cu...
Author: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...
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5856 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper proposes a simple model that depicts the relationship between community and extra-community stakeholders that will enable the effective development of sustainable tourism. “Sustainable tourism” in this paper is defined as tourism ...
Author: Asami Shikida, Mami Yoda, Akiko Kino & Masayuki Morishige
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Valuing Open Innovation Environments in Tourism Educat...
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5822 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The world has changed tremendously since the publication of Our Common Future by the World Commission for Environment and Development (1987), which elevated the concept of sustainable development from grassroots initiatives to the forefront...
Author: Janne Liburd & Anne-Mette Hjalager
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Exploring Tourists’ Environmental Learning, Values, an...
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5339 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There is a need for a research agenda, which achieves a holistic understanding of the nature and influences of environmental learning on tourists’ environmental values and travel experiences in relation to climate change. Why, because touri...
Author: Ulrike Kachel & Gayle Jennings
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Valuing water: Perceived differences in attitude and u...
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4950 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank IX
The West in the East: Conflict in the Values of Volunt...
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4417 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Consequently, the aim of this research was to explore the complexity of trying to work within a framework of sustainability, with a given number of stakeholders (in this case, a UK organisation, its customers (volunteers, primarily British) ...
Author: Angela M. Benson
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Principles Reflected in Award-Winn...
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4292 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There has been increased attention given to sustainable tourism monitoring and evaluation efforts, including corporate policies, guidelines and codes of conduct as well as certification programs (e.g., Dodds and Joppe 2005; Font and Harris ...
Author: Stuart Levy & Donald Hawkins
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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4135 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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3921 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism, like any other endeavour, operates within the social and political domains of a community, and it is therefore likely that residents with different social and political values would hold different representations of tourism. In the ...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2009
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