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Think Tank XVII
From Sustainability to Resilience: Understanding Diffe...
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7334 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The tourism literature on the relationship between resilience and sustainability is still in its infancy. Some argue that resilience planning has emerged as an alternative to sustainable development to provide new perspectives on socio-ecolo...
Author: Girish Prayag & Caroline Orchiston & Mesbahuddin Chowdhury
Year: 2017
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173 |
Think Tank VIII
Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...
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7404 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev...
Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall
Year: 2008
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172 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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7440 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Since 2002 the Flemish Tourism Board, the executive agency of the Flemish Ministry of Tourism, has implemented different actions to introduce the principles of sustainable tourism into tourism education in Flanders. The general objective is...
Author: Griet Geudens & Manuel Minne
Year: 2011
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171 |
Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Labels: A Suitable Tool for Consum...
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7455 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In an attempt to encourage businesses making an effort to reduce the negative impacts of tourism, and to maximise the positive outcomes of this activity an extensive number of sustainable tourism labels were developed worldwide. It has been...
Author: Sofia Reino
Year: 2011
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170 |
Think Tank XIII
Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo...
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7510 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
Year: 2013
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169 |
Think Tank XIV
Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainabili...
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7516 | Jul 07, 2014 |
A number of ongoing and new initiatives aim at the tourism sector with the intention of improving sustainability within the sector and through tourism in other economic and social activities. Dirk's presentation reflects on UNWTO’s position ...
Author: Dirk Glaesser
Year: 2014
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168 |
Think Tank VII
Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics
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7531 | 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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167 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak...
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7536 | Jun 27, 2014 |
This paper looks at the development of an ecotrekking industry on the Kokoda Track and demonstrates how the use of participatory methods in community based tourism can align two different “regimes of truth” (that of the community and of the ...
Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton & Amy Reggers
Year: 2014
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166 |
Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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7598 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...
Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle
Year: 2008
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Think Tank XII
Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...
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7604 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The travel between home and destination is a key element of any holiday and has received increasing attention by tourism scholars as its environmental and particularly its climatic impacts have become widely recognized (Gössling 2002; Metz, ...
Author: Astrid Dickinger & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2012
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164 |
Think Tank V
Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...
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7616 | 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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163 |
Think Tank XIX
Exploring guest book inscriptions towards understandin...
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7647 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: visitor experience, guest books, Mnemba Island Lodge, Zanzibar Page: 125-139 Exploring guest book inscriptions towards understanding tourist experience at Mnemba Island Lodge.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* S...
Author: Kevin Mearns
Year: 2019
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162 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Destination Management and the Marketing-P...
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7648 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A traditional and widely held view is that a sustainable approach to destination planning and management ideally requires that marketing and product development are undertaken in an integrated manner. However, if we take just two activities...
Author: Tazim Jamal & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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161 |
Think Tank IX
The elusiveness of sustainability in tourism: The cult...
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7674 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism is perhaps the most prominent feature of contemporary tourism discourse. However, despite its prominence for several decades, achieving sustainability remains as elusive as ever. This paper explores the concept of the cu...
Author: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Year: 2009
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160 |
Think Tank XIV
The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...
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7737 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Social tourism refers to initiatives that aim to include groups into tourism that would otherwise be excluded from it. The earliest definition of social tourism by Hunzicker (1951) described social tourism as ‘‘the relationships and phenomen...
Author: Lynn Minnaert
Year: 2014
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159 |
Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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7779 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields o...
Author: Maeve Morrissey, Kevin Griffin & Sheila Flanagan
Year: 2010
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158 |
Think Tank XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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7805 | Nov 06, 2013 |
After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...
Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré
Year: 2012
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157 |
Think Tank XII
Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract...
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7810 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through...
Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters
Year: 2012
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156 |
Think Tank XIV
Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...
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7821 | 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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155 |
Think Tank IX
Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...
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7846 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper proposes a simple model that depicts the relationship between community and extra-community stakeholders that will enable the effective development of sustainable tourism. “Sustainable tourism” in this paper is defined as tourism ...
Author: Asami Shikida, Mami Yoda, Akiko Kino & Masayuki Morishige
Year: 2009
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