234 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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5823 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...
Author: Attama Nilnoppkun
Year: 2012
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233 |
Think Tank XIII
Regional Collaboration as the Conduit for Sustainable ...
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5825 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Sustaining rural America is one of today's pressing issues. With the decline of family operated farms and the move away from traditional extraction industries, word about the benefits of developing tourism in rural communities and regions is...
Author: Paige P. Schneider, Cynthia S. Deale & Svitlana Iarmolenko
Year: 2013
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232 |
Think Tank V
Effects of SARS Crisis on the Economic Contribution of...
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5830 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In a context of uncertainty over traveller security, tourism experienced two major crises in 2003- the Iraq War and SARS. While the relative impacts of a complex array of impacts on travel decisionmaking are almost impossible to dissect, thi...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth & Ray Spurr
Year: 2005
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231 |
Think Tank XVIII
Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...
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5854 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Keywords: natural resource management, community participation, stakeholder engagement, co-creation, sustainable tourism, Networks of Reserves.
Author: Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa, Sandra Notaro, Nicola Zeni & Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi
Year: 2018
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230 |
Think Tank VIII
An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Lif...
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5858 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Quality of life studies are usually either objective or subjective in nature. Objective quality of life studies concentrate on social indicators whereas subjective quality of life studies attempt to assess the perceived satisfaction that in...
Author: Turgut Var, Erhan Ada, Gökce Ozdemir & Deniz Hasirci
Year: 2008
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229 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Principles Reflected in Award-Winn...
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5892 | 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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228 |
Think Tank XV
A modified value chainanalysisoftourism development in...
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5904 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourism development in a relatively unknown country is faced with various challenges. The difficulty is not only choosing an appropriate tourism development strategy but also managing it in a complex sociocultural, economic and political env...
Author: Sonja Frommenwiler & Péter Varga
Year: 2015
OPA: Runner Up Outstanding Paper Award
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227 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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5922 | Oct 14, 2013 |
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
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226 |
Think Tank XIV
Hospitality of Sustainable Tourism Encounters: Experie...
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5927 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Global tourism is, at least to some extent, based upon to the vast inequalities between wealthy and impoverished (Cole & Morgan 2010, xv). Neglecting, or actively forgetting, the legacy of colonialism and the modern forms of economic and...
Author: Emily Höckert
Year: 2014
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225 |
Think Tank V
Ecolabels and Green Globe 21: Awareness and Consumer A...
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5937 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A case in point is New Zealand, where tourism has long been recognised as an important economic force; this is aptly illustrated by the sector’s contribution of 9.6% to the country’s GDP in 2003 (TRCNZ, 2005). The resource at the heart of mu...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2005
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224 |
Think Tank IV
A Framework for the Development of Social and Socio-Ec...
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5943 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the background thinking to a CRC for Sustainable Tourism project that develops social and socio-economic indicators for tourism communities. The project emanates from the Green Globe 21 Standard that incorporates indicato...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2004
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223 |
Think Tank XIV
Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ...
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5953 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Therefore, being of a different nature than sustainability pillars, political sustainability (Mihalic et al., 2012) is a requirement for sustainable tourism development (Edgell, DelMastro Allen, Smith & Swanson, 2008; UNWTO, 2004). This ...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Tina Šegota, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar, Kir Kuščer
Year: 2014
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222 |
Think Tank V
Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...
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6020 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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221 |
Think Tank XVI
The impact of CSR activities of family businesses on c...
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6079 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Zehrer Anita
Year: 2016
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220 |
Think Tank XIII
Local Residents' Involvement in Rural Tourism: The Cas...
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6084 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Community involvement is regarded as a significant factor for the development of rural tourism. In Malaysia, cooperatives are used as a catalyst to achieve community development through community involvement. This paper focuses on the involv...
Author: Uma Thevi Munikrishnan, Sushila Devi Rajaratnam, Paolo Mura & Vikneswaran Nair
Year: 2013
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219 |
Think Tank XIV
Local Networks as Sustainable Policy Instruments: A Ca...
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6113 | Jun 27, 2014 |
In this case study, a communication network among local hotel managers was examined, first to assess the extent of communication among hotel managers, and second to identify influential members within the network. Communication with respect ...
Author: Karen Irene Thal & Tracy Burkett
Year: 2014
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218 |
Think Tank XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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6128 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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217 |
Think Tank V
Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane...
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6134 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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216 |
Think Tank IX
The West in the East: Conflict in the Values of Volunt...
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6192 | 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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215 |
Think Tank IV
Evaluating Environmental Initiatives of German Hotels
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6279 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Following a vigorous environmental protection movement trigging in Germany over thirty years ago, the German hotel industry is gradually moving in line with other sections of its society. This study attempts to present a snapshot of the asse...
Author: Joseph S. Chen, Willy Legrand, Philip Sloan & Josephine Zho
Year: 2004
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