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Think Tank VI
Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...
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3674 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A problem in developing new tourism markets remains how to resource them from an existing employment base. Key questions arising are: Do current tourism enterprises have the existing skills to move into these new markets for sustainable tour...
Author: Susan Anita Briggs
Year: 2006
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213 |
Think Tank XIII
City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V...
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3661 | 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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212 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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3659 | 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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211 |
Think Tank VIII
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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3644 | 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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210 |
Think Tank X
Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a...
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3634 | 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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209 |
Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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3616 | 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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208 |
Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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3604 | 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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207 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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3572 | 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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206 |
Think Tank XII
Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ...
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3548 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Bali has long been a tourist destination for Australian tourists and the Australian tourist market is an important one for Bali tourism. In the last two decades, increasingly Australian tourists have and are shifting their mobility practices...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2012
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205 |
Think Tank XVI
CSR in Medical Toursim – new markets, new responsibili...
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3536 | 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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204 |
Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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3498 | 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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203 |
Think Tank X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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3493 | Oct 13, 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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202 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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3473 | 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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201 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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3462 | 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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200 |
Think Tank VI
Family Businesses and Sustainable Tourism: the Role of...
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3438 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Family businesses, that is, businesses owned and/or operated my members of a single family, are predominant in Western economies. This is also an important category of business within tourism hospitality, particularly in rural areas where r...
Author: Janne J. Liburd & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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199 |
Think Tank XV
A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...
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3417 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins...
Author: Amy Savener
Year: 2015
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198 |
Think Tank IV
A Framework for the Development of Social and Socio-Ec...
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3404 | 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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197 |
Think Tank XIV
Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ...
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3402 | 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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196 |
Think Tank XVII
The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with th...
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3386 | 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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195 |
Think Tank IV
Mass-ski Tourism in the Dolomites and Sustainability: ...
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3341 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of mass-ski tourism on the environment in the Dolomites (Italian Alps), where in winter the principal activities are snow sports. In implementing this development model the Dolomite region has...
Author: Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi, Federica Buffa, Pietro Marzani & Maria Della Lucia
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Runner Up
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