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No.	Subject	Views	Date
39	Think Tank VIII Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...	70617	Oct 13, 2013
39	This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag... Author: David Foster Year: 2008
38	Think Tank XII Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...	35427	Nov 06, 2013
38	Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ... Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini Year: 2012 OPA: 2012 Runner Up
37	Think Tank XIII Conceptualising a Framework to Analyse the Factors Inf...	19059	Nov 06, 2013
37	As the tourism industry continues to grow globally, sustainable tourism development has drawn interests among researchers, practitioners, governments and stakeholders. There are several studies on the local residents’ support for tourism, lo... Author: Samuel Folorunso Adeyinka-Ojo, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore & Vikneswaran Nair Year: 2013
36	Think Tank V Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters	12925	Oct 13, 2013
36	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 Year: 2005
35	Think Tank VII There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...	11812	Oct 13, 2013
35	Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h... Author: Gianna Moscardo Year: 2007
34	Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...	10795	Nov 06, 2013
34	“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A... Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov Year: 2012
33	Think Tank V Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...	10450	Oct 13, 2013
33	In an era of considerable disaster and uncertainty, many destinations have been made alarmingly aware of the fickle nature of tourism. While peak industry bodies, academics and professionals advocate the introduction of risk/crisis managemen... Author: Yetta Gurtner Year: 2005
32	Think Tank X Sustainable Tourism Networks	8125	Oct 13, 2013
32	This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ... Author: Seldjan Timur Year: 2010
31	Think Tank IX Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...	8071	Oct 13, 2013
31	“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
30	Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...	7751	Oct 13, 2013
30	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
29	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	7670	Oct 13, 2013
29	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
28	Think Tank VI Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	7224	Oct 13, 2013
28	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
27	Think Tank VIII Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...	6842	Oct 13, 2013
27	This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ... Author: Larry Dwyer Year: 2008
26	Think Tank VII The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...	6818	Oct 13, 2013
26	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
25	Think Tank X Sustainable Destination Management and the Marketing-P...	6390	Oct 13, 2013
25	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
24	Think Tank XIII Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo...	6316	Nov 06, 2013
24	In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t... Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo Year: 2013
23	Think Tank V Using Theories of Stigma Management and Impression Man...	6274	Oct 13, 2013
23	Researchers have noted that impression management is key to tourism crisis management planning and recovery (Ritchie et al., 2003:201); indeed, some have suggested that “crisis management is as much about dealing with human perceptions about... Author: Bonalyn Nelson Year: 2005
22	Think Tank XII Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract...	6126	Nov 06, 2013
22	This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through... Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters Year: 2012
21	Think Tank XII Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo...	5938	Nov 06, 2013
21	Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ... Author: Tatjana Thimm Year: 2012
20	Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...	5833	Oct 13, 2013
20	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important issue for some governments but the tourism industry appears to be slow in adopting CSR strategies. By focusing on CSR, we argue that the implementation of CSR audits could help t... Author: Ya-Ting Huang, David Botterill & Eleri Jones Year: 2006

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