43 |
Think Tank XVI
Volunteering and donations for biodiversity conservati...
|
690 | 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
|
42 |
Think Tank XVI
Influencing sustainability through engagement in polic...
|
1096 | 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
|
41 |
Think Tank XVI
United we stand, divided we fall: Strategies for engag...
|
945 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Many tourism corporate responsibility programs require the support and/or compliance of guests or customers, yet little attention has been paid to the design of strategies to encourage this compliance. Research in the areas of tourist inter...
Author: Karen Hughes & Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2016
OPA: 2016 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
|
40 |
Think Tank XVI
Empowering communities and enabling conservation: Revi...
|
1034 | 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
|
39 |
Think Tank XVI
The Influences of Hotel Contexts on Tourist Behaviour....
|
962 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Sustainability deals with the relation between people and their environment. The configuration of this connection and the communication between the two are decisive when talking about a socially acceptable, ecologically compatible and econo...
Author: Stefan Raich
Year: 2016
|
38 |
Think Tank XVI
New approach on creating shared value in corporate soc...
|
1359 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) to manage environmental, social and economic impacts has been widely researched in tourism. However, there is criticism of the lack of non-western, local perspectives in tourism planning and management,...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Tamara Young & Mark Harvey
Year: 2016
|
37 |
Think Tank XVI
In Search of a New Mindset to Underpin Tourism Develop...
|
1309 | 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
|
36 |
Think Tank XVI
Examining Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism: ...
|
812 | 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
|
35 |
Think Tank XVI
Values, Sustainability and Destination Choice Decision...
|
1602 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The sustainability concept has become popular after it was first used in almost three decades ago in what is now a renowned report, Our Common Future by Brundtland’s World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987). Although much...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Seyhmuz Baloglu & Haywantee Rumi Ramkissoon
Year: 2016
|
34 |
Think Tank XVI
Challenges to attaining “Accessible Tourism for All” i...
|
1750 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Although the discussion on Accessible Tourism has increased in intensity over the past 20 years, and by now there are even a few examples of Good Practices being implemented, it nevertheless must be pointed out that this approach is not yet ...
Author: Andreas Kagermeier
Year: 2016
|
33 |
Think Tank XVI
Analysing CSR Practices in Food Operations: A case stu...
|
1668 | 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
|
32 |
Think Tank XVI
Spirituality and corporate social responsibility in to...
|
942 | 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
|
31 |
Think Tank XVI
eTraining for Sustainable Tourism: Investing in Skills...
|
735 | 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
|
30 |
Think Tank XVI
Assessing the sustainability reporting of a JSE compan...
|
1867 | 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
|
29 |
Think Tank XVI
SWOT Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship in Enterprises
|
2888 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Social Enterprise is known as a non-profit action aiming social benefits. Social entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is social actions which create permanent and sustainable values by offering innovative perspectives to find solutions fors...
Author: Sema Alimoğlu Özkan & Ali Şükrü Çetinkaya
Year: 2016
|
28 |
Think Tank XVI
CSR in Medical Toursim – new markets, new responsibili...
|
4166 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Governments, hospitals, clinics and facilitators go about their business of marketing health tourism to international patients and their relatives. While they focus on making money researchers should ask questions about changes raised by th...
Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel
Year: 2016
|
27 |
Think Tank XVI
The moderating role of values in planned behaviour: th...
|
678 | 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
|
26 |
Think Tank XVI
Can Tourism Businesses Foster Better Inclusion for Peo...
|
630 | 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
|
25 |
Think Tank XVI
Adoption and diffusion of sustainability in tourism an...
|
2227 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This study explores why family firms adopt social and ecological policies that go beyond regulations, which includes hard (e.g., law; Berrone et al., 2010) or soft (e.g., certificates; Rivera, 2002) regulations. To accomplish this, the stud...
Author: Johanna Zanon, Andreas Kallmuenzer, William Nikolakis & Mike Peters
Year: 2016
|
24 |
Think Tank XVI
Reaching the hard to reach: CSR and employee engagemen...
|
902 | Jul 02, 2016 |
As the duties and behaviour of organizations within the tourism industry evolve to accommodate expectations of pro-sustainable business change, so too does the role and responsibility of employees within these organisations. As key actors i...
Author: Kelsy Hejjas, Caroline Scarles & Graham Miller
Year: 2016
|