234 |
Think Tank X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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4573 | Oct 14, 2013 |
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
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233 |
Think Tank XVII
The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with th...
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4575 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The emergence of information technology has a profound impact on tourism industry. Today, visitors are more inclined to have searched the Internet to gain more pre-tour knowledge for the destinations than before. The advances of the various ...
Author: Daisy Suk-fong FUNG
Year: 2017
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232 |
Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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4576 | Nov 06, 2013 |
As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King
Year: 2012
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231 |
Think Tank VII
A Community of Heroes
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4588 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...
Author: Regina Binder
Year: 2007
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230 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring the Relationship between General Environment...
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4634 | Jun 26, 2014 |
These challenges raise the questions of how to determine who is environmentally friendly, i.e. who is potentially part of this group acknowledging the range and diversity in environmental behaviours and their uptake. An alternative approach ...
Author: Anja Hergesell
Year: 2014
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229 |
Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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4660 | 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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228 |
Think Tank V
Ecolabels and Green Globe 21: Awareness and Consumer A...
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4720 | 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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227 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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4722 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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226 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f...
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4731 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Transport is a vital and integral component of the tourism system yet it contributes the most emissions in tourism (Dubois, Peeters, Ceron, & Gössling, 2011; Peeters & Dubois, 2010). In line with the global concerns for sustainabilit...
Author: Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn
Year: 2014
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225 |
Think Tank XV
Why Africans do not visit their national parks: A case...
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4797 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Present-day Western approaches relating to nature and natural resources management assume that humans are independent from the natural world (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). Protected areas such as Yellowstone National Park were created with ...
Author: Lesego S. Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane
Year: 2015
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224 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among...
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4805 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb...
Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger
Year: 2015
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223 |
Think Tank XIII
Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ...
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4821 | Nov 06, 2013 |
One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...
Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor
Year: 2013
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222 |
Think Tank X
Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a...
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4829 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses the contemporary meeting of three large-scale systems or processes - Agenda 21, the Internet and globalization - and what this historical conjunction means for networking sustainable tourism development. It is important...
Author: Gordon Sillence & Herbert Hamele
Year: 2010
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221 |
Think Tank XVIII
Persuasive communication: an experiment on hotel guest...
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4857 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: personal values, smart water-saving technology, community-based social marketing, science communication, pro-environmental behaviour, field experiment.
Author: Pablo Pereira-Doel, Xavier Font & Candice Howarth
Year: 2018
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220 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Principles Reflected in Award-Winn...
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4858 | 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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219 |
Think Tank IV
Cultural Tourism as a Means for Sustainability in a Ma...
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4877 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism has become for many islands a means of social, economic and cultural development through the creation of jobs, raising standards of living and through the development of local resources for culture and heritage. Thus, many of these d...
Author: Chryso Panayidou
Year: 2004
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218 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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4883 | 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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217 |
Think Tank IV
The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...
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4899 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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216 |
Think Tank XIV
Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw...
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4908 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...
Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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215 |
Think Tank XVIII
Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi...
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4908 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management
Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub
Year: 2018
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