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OPA award
Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island: An Explo...
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3661 | Oct 23, 2019 |
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Author: Kate Devor Leuhusen
Year: 2019
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Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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3652 | 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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Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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3626 | 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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Think Tank XVI
CSR in Medical Toursim – new markets, new responsibili...
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3625 | 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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Think Tank XVII
Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ...
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3598 | 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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189 |
Think Tank IV
The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...
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3596 | 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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Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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3592 | 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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Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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3546 | 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 X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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3546 | 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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Think Tank VI
Family Businesses and Sustainable Tourism: the Role of...
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3496 | 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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Think Tank XVI
The impact of CSR activities of family businesses on c...
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3490 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Zehrer Anita
Year: 2016
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183 |
Think Tank IV
A Framework for the Development of Social and Socio-Ec...
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3489 | 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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Think Tank XIV
Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ...
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3468 | 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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Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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3457 | 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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Think Tank IV
Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S...
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3444 | 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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179 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees in Susta...
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3430 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has developed significantly over the last decade and has taken on a myriad of meanings. For many companies, it is a philosophy that helps guide their actions in the external environment. E...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2006
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Think Tank IV
Mass-ski Tourism in the Dolomites and Sustainability: ...
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3418 | 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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OPA award
Active community participation in nature conservation ...
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3377 | 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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Think Tank XII
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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3361 | 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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Think Tank XII
The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...
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3359 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...
Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson
Year: 2012
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