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Think Tank VIII
A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind...
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2826 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green b...
Author: Claudia Jurowski
Year: 2008
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Think Tank V
An Economic Explanation of the Net Benefits of Tourism...
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2793 | Oct 13, 2013 |
International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism...
Author: Mondher Sahli & Jean-Jacques Nowak
Year: 2005
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Think Tank XV
The role of souvenir vendors in the cultural sustainab...
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2759 | Jul 27, 2015 |
The research investigated the role of souvenir vendors in sustaining the social-cultural authenticity of Chichen Itza’s host community, a Mexican UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) (UNESCO, 2015a). The case study evaluated the Maya-descent ven...
Author: Ady Milman
Year: 2015
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Think Tank XIV
Exploring Youth Perspectives on Quality of Life and To...
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2733 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) is implicit in conceptualisations of tourism, especially those used to develop and guide tourism policy and planning. At the individual level it is assumed that travel offers a number of different ways to...
Author: Anna Blackman, Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2014
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Think Tank IX
Values: Dollars, trees or feelings?
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2682 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The importance of values to tourism is but one aspect of the importance of values in human interactions with the natural environment and even more broadly to the human condition. However, attempts to understand the impact of values on behav...
Author: Denise Dillon
Year: 2009
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Think Tank XIV
Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t...
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2629 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...
Author: Patricia C. Johnson
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VII
Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism
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2545 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The antecedents of the modern outfitter are numerous and varied, reaching far back into mythology, allegoric literature, history, and geographic exploration. Throughout history, guides have played two distinct roles, the pathfinder and the m...
Author: Norma Nickerson
Year: 2007
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Think Tank IX
Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t...
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2510 | Oct 13, 2013 |
For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200...
Author: Caroline Scarles
Year: 2009
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Think Tank VII
Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an...
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2487 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ethical questions related to globalization, human rights, unfair labor practices and trans-boundary exchanges of capital and work force create ever more complex challenges for the tourism sustainability agenda. In recent years, the tourism i...
Author: Camelia Tepelus
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XII
Evaluation of the accessibility of Monterrey's Tourism...
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2473 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite several declarations, policies and regulations that seek to protect their rights, people with disabilities still encounter several constrains that impede their full participation in society, and, in particular, their access to and en...
Author: Blanca A. Camargo, Isabel Sánchez, Fátima Guajardo & Alejandro García
Year: 2012
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Think Tank IV
Evaluation of Tourism Events: A Critical Review with a...
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2308 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation will critically review the three main sources of error in tourism event evaluation, related to the limited temporal, geographic and economic scope of current event evaluation approaches. In doing so, it will draw the attent...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2004
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...
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2300 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev...
Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall
Year: 2008
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Think Tank XII
Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations
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2247 | Nov 06, 2013 |
In the arena of resort development, there is a long history of destinations emulating (and seeking to surpass) one another in efforts to maintain competitiveness. In recent years, the use of “best case” examples are common tools employed to ...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2012
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OPA award
Can Direct Communication at the Point of Consumption R...
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2229 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: food waste, food signage, sustainability, experiment
Author: Hannes Antonschmidt & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2018
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Think Tank XV
Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...
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2109 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourism is a fragile industry with multiple stakeholders. Globally, the desire of its stakeholders is to gain more benefits and eliminate negative impacts on resources that support the industry, particularly in protected areas (PAs) such as ...
Author: Richie Wandwi
Year: 2015
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Think Tank XVIII
Persuasive communication: an experiment on hotel guest...
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1861 | 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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Think Tank X
How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte...
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1785 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Meaning is one of the most elusive and ubiquitous properties of tourism spaces. This paper analyses the ambiguity of meaning in the materiality of tourism sustainability. Sustainable development and its three interrelated principles of holi...
Author: Neil M. Walsh
Year: 2010
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Think Tank XVIII
SMTE’s use of SoMe and Sustainability
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1678 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.
Author: Ida Marie Visbech Andersen
Year: 2018
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Think Tank XVIII
Communication of Sustainability Efforts in the Hospita...
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1673 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Keywords: green marketing, sustainability engagement, small / owner-managed hotels
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe
Year: 2018
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Think Tank XV
A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship
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1588 | Jul 24, 2015 |
As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; T...
Author: Mingming Chen, Deborah Edward, Simon Darcy
Year: 2015
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