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Think Tank XII
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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3576 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...
Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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233 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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3597 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XVII
Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ...
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3624 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper presents research commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s African Natural Resources Center (ANRC), that aimed to to identify and summarise existing monitoring data being gathered by national tourism authorities and i...
Author: Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
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231 |
Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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3657 | 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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230 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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3661 | 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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229 |
Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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3685 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Surf beach drowning is an example of a tourist injury problem in Australia. In this paper, a process is outlined to identify and tease out the roles and relationships among causal risk factors, markers of risk, and components of risk exposur...
Author: Damian Morgan
Year: 2005
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228 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S...
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3687 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a joint public and private sector research project entitled Mobile Digital City and Nature Walks - the development of content and software for a mobile tourism device. Focusing on sustainable tourism, marketing and innova...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2004
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227 |
Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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3689 | 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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226 |
Think Tank VIII
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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3691 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within the tourism industry. This paper present...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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225 |
Think Tank X
Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a...
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3700 | 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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224 |
Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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3704 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...
Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2007
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223 |
Think Tank XVIII
The Munich Streetlife Festival: A case study on a gree...
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3730 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Green events, sustainability communication, theory of planned behaviour, transtheoretical model, structure equation model
Author: Elias Butzmann & Christina Tölkes
Year: 2018
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222 |
Think Tank XVI
CSR in Medical Toursim – new markets, new responsibili...
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3758 | 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
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221 |
Think Tank XIII
City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V...
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3767 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The level of interest and participation in voluntourism has progressively become a major sector in contemporary tourism. The notion of combining a novel and pleasurable tourism experience with the fulfillment of contributing a worthwhile cau...
Author: Eunice Tan
Year: 2013
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220 |
OPA award
Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island: An Explo...
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3768 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: sustainable tourism, mass tourism, sustainable urban development, environmental sustainability Page: 86-114 Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ ta...
Author: Kate Devor Leuhusen
Year: 2019
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219 |
Think Tank IV
The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...
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3781 | 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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218 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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3787 | 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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217 |
Think Tank V
Ecolabels and Green Globe 21: Awareness and Consumer A...
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3838 | 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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216 |
Think Tank V
Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...
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3838 | 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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215 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f...
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3860 | 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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