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Think Tank VII
Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics
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3050 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tether (2003) describes innovation within service industries as having a Cinderella status - marginal and neglected. The traditional approach to thinking about innovation has been to concentrate on manufacturing and within that, the role of...
Author: Graham Miller & Caroline Scarles
Year: 2007
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193 |
Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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3072 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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192 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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3081 | Oct 13, 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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191 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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3089 | Nov 05, 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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190 |
Think Tank XII
Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:...
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3111 | Nov 05, 2013 |
For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...
Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould
Year: 2012
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189 |
Think Tank XIV
Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ...
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3113 | 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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188 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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3127 | Nov 05, 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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187 |
Think Tank XIV
Influence of Assets and Capital Structure on the Perfo...
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3134 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The global economic and financial crisis could be seen as old news according to the UNWTO’s data on international tourist arrivals. Europe recorded a solid 5% growth in 2013, and Mediterranean countries performed even better with 6% growth i...
Author: Kir Kuščer & Domen Trobec
Year: 2014
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186 |
Think Tank V
Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...
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3142 | Dec 14, 2013 |
Many tourism professionals are afraid to speak about terms such as tourism security and tourism safety. There is a common feeling among tourism and travel professionals that these terms will frighten customers and that the less said the bett...
Author: Peter E. Tarlow
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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185 |
Think Tank XIV
Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...
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3161 | Jun 26, 2014 |
For the tourism sector the government aims to “Grow the number of new business opportunities on public conservation land in order to deliver increased economic prosperity and conservation gain” (New Zealand Government, 2012: 23). In relation...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2014
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184 |
Think Tank VII
Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability...
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3166 | Oct 13, 2013 |
With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T...
Author: Daniel Fesenmaier
Year: 2007
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183 |
OPA award
Active community participation in nature conservation ...
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3169 | Jul 27, 2015 |
This paper provides a conceptual framework of community- based nature conservation and tourism (CBC-T). The following themes are guiding discussions in this study, i.e.: land rights of local communities in and around protected areas; communi...
Author: Jones Muzirambi & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2015
OPA: 2015 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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182 |
Think Tank XIII
City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V...
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3179 | 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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181 |
Think Tank X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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3245 | 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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180 |
Think Tank VII
Innovations in Volunteer Tourism: A Case Study of Fund...
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3278 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The popularity of volunteer tourism as a form of alternative tourism has grown significantly over the past decade (McGehee, and Norman, 2002). Volunteer tourists can now be found throughout the world participating in a wide array of social, ...
Author: Kevin Lyons
Year: 2007
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179 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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3289 | Nov 05, 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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178 |
Think Tank X
Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a...
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3297 | 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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177 |
Think Tank XIII
Building community capacity by developing regional bus...
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3320 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
Year: 2013
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176 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...
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3327 | Jun 26, 2014 |
In this study, I take up the task to work towards a theoretical and methodological framework that allows using sustainability as a threshold concept for critically evaluating the assumptions embedded in both tourism management theory and pra...
Author: José-Carlos García-Rosell
Year: 2014
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175 |
Think Tank VIII
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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3355 | 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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