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Key words: small accommodation, sustainable tourism, business models
Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated...
Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar
Year: 2008
Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran
Year: 2013
Key words: marketing, research-based evidence, partnership, rural tourism, city tourism, sustainability
Author: Yukari Higuchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka & Hiroaki Hoshi
Year: 2018
The concerns are varied and are not necessarily important to all tourists and the influence they have on sustaining the industry is unknown. For years the tourism industry has used a number of mechanisms in an attempt to green operators. The...
Author: Sue Bergin-Seers & Judith Mair
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
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
Most destinations are struggling to achieve sustainability for their economies, their environments, their cultures and their tourism industries. This laudatory, idealistic and complex process involves many sectors of the industry, the commun...
Author: Pauline Sheldon, John Knox & Kem Lowry
In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t...
Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo
In order to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs, rural communities should be able to participate actively in all aspects of tourism, including planning and management. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the local communit...
Author: Limpho Lekaota & Jarkko Saarined
Year: 2015
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
This paper introduces the rationale for a study which explores the relationship between sense of place and sustainability at Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park (TARP), Sabah. Sense of place encompasses an understanding of the meaning bestowed ...
Author: Paulin Wong Poh Lin & Balvinder Kaur Kler
Tourism is often proposed as a strategy for community development, especially in rural or remote regions where traditional industries, such as agriculture, are experiencing an economic downturn and there are limited alternative opportunities...
Author: Anna Blackman
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
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
Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns
The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ...
Author: Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2009
Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very sim...
Author: Sebastian Filep
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
OPA: Runner Up Outstanding Paper Award
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
OPA: 2004 Runner Up
Out of a growing concern about the erosion of social infrastructure has come an increase in pressure on business to take up more of the responsibility in meeting community needs (Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 2000; Loza & Ogilvie...
Author: Deborah Edwards
Year: 2006
