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Think Tank VIII
Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in T...
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3365 | Oct 13, 2013 |
During the last two decades, there has been increased focus on topics related to various aspects of sustainable tourism. Believing that sustainable tourism can be a serious alternative that can remedy some of the negative impacts associated ...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Muzzo S. Uysal & Turgut Var
Year: 2008
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173 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainability in a Mature Mass-Tourism Destination: T...
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3381 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
Year: 2004
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172 |
Think Tank XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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3381 | Nov 05, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism at a destination is dependent on the maintenance and good management of its attractive assets. In non-urban areas, the assets will primarily be geological, natural and/or cultural, frequently of a sensitive nature, liable...
Author: David Ward-Perkins & Frédéric Dimanche
Year: 2012
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171 |
Think Tank V
Ecolabels and Green Globe 21: Awareness and Consumer A...
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3388 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A case in point is New Zealand, where tourism has long been recognised as an important economic force; this is aptly illustrated by the sector’s contribution of 9.6% to the country’s GDP in 2003 (TRCNZ, 2005). The resource at the heart of mu...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2005
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170 |
Think Tank XII
Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:...
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3393 | Nov 05, 2013 |
This paper examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export ...
Author: Mondher Sahli & Simon Carey
Year: 2012
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169 |
Think Tank XIV
Local Networks as Sustainable Policy Instruments: A Ca...
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3395 | Jun 26, 2014 |
In this case study, a communication network among local hotel managers was examined, first to assess the extent of communication among hotel managers, and second to identify influential members within the network. Communication with respect ...
Author: Karen Irene Thal & Tracy Burkett
Year: 2014
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168 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f...
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3414 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Transport is a vital and integral component of the tourism system yet it contributes the most emissions in tourism (Dubois, Peeters, Ceron, & Gössling, 2011; Peeters & Dubois, 2010). In line with the global concerns for sustainabilit...
Author: Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn
Year: 2014
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167 |
Think Tank IV
It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut...
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3421 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper contributes to the debate by reporting on inital findings from a wider study of volunteers in museums and art museums that was designed to empirically explore volunteer motivation, expectations, values and commitment. The aim of t...
Author: Deborah Edwards
Year: 2004
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166 |
Think Tank XIII
Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ...
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3450 | Nov 06, 2013 |
One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...
Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor
Year: 2013
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165 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring the Relationship between General Environment...
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3470 | Jun 26, 2014 |
These challenges raise the questions of how to determine who is environmentally friendly, i.e. who is potentially part of this group acknowledging the range and diversity in environmental behaviours and their uptake. An alternative approach ...
Author: Anja Hergesell
Year: 2014
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164 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among...
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3498 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb...
Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger
Year: 2015
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163 |
Think Tank XII
Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo...
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3499 | Nov 05, 2013 |
Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2012
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162 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Museum Sector a...
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3504 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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161 |
Think Tank XIII
Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...
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3527 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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160 |
Think Tank VII
Rural Adventure Tourism and Social Entrepreneurship
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3531 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The intent of this research is to provide a comparative analysis of several innovative social entrepreneurial businesses operating within the realm of rural adventure tourism. This qualitative, case-based research explores six companies, wh...
Author: Christina Heyniger & Kristin Lamoureaux
Year: 2007
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159 |
Think Tank XIV
Heritage Trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in ...
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3550 | Jun 26, 2014 |
One of the beneficial methodologies for growing and developing a level of tourism which is sustainable and enhances the totality of local and regional environments is a multi-stakeholder approach to tourism development. In this paper, we pre...
Author: Marko Koscak
Year: 2014
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158 |
Think Tank VIII
Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...
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3559 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
Year: 2008
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157 |
Think Tank XIV
Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw...
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3561 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...
Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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156 |
Think Tank V
Using Theories of Stigma Management and Impression Man...
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3571 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Researchers have noted that impression management is key to tourism crisis management planning and recovery (Ritchie et al., 2003:201); indeed, some have suggested that “crisis management is as much about dealing with human perceptions about...
Author: Bonalyn Nelson
Year: 2005
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155 |
Think Tank IX
Exploring Tourists’ Environmental Learning, Values, an...
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3576 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There is a need for a research agenda, which achieves a holistic understanding of the nature and influences of environmental learning on tourists’ environmental values and travel experiences in relation to climate change. Why, because touri...
Author: Ulrike Kachel & Gayle Jennings
Year: 2009
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