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Think Tank XI
Use of Cases in an Ethical Teaching Resource for Touri...
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2990 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Ethical problems are an integral part of all professions and academic disciplines (Clarkeburn, 2002). However, it is recognised that the increasing application of technology by students in research is not always matched by consideration of ...
Author: Carl Cater
Year: 2011
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173 |
Think Tank XI
Identifying Critical Issues in Designing Educational T...
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4228 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Education is seen as an important way to contribute to development. The World Bank finances educational projects with large amounts of money every year because it is convinced that improving education can help alleviate poverty by raising i...
Author: Kerstin Freudenthaler & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2011
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172 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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6103 | 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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Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Course Structure and Associated St...
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14911 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The author has developed and delivered Sustainable Tourism (S.T.) related courses at Institutions of Higher Education in Paris, London, Helsinki, and Parnu, Estonia over the last 10 years. The focus of the presentation would be the S.T. con...
Author: James Holleran
Year: 2011
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170 |
Think Tank XI
CRS 2.0: Management Perspectives of Sustainable Hospit...
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8640 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In recent years, hotel companies have recognized the importance of engaging in responsible business practices as they relate to stakeholders including employees, guests, and the communities in which their properties are located. Accordingly...
Author: Stuart E. Levy & Sun-Young Park
Year: 2011
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169 |
Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Labels: A Suitable Tool for Consum...
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3468 | 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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168 |
Think Tank XI
Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...
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6241 | Oct 14, 2013 |
As Sontag (1979) stated, we live in an image-based world within which we are continuously bombarded with visuals in countless formats and guises. However, despite such image saturation, academic engagement whether through teaching or resear...
Author: Caroline Scarles
Year: 2011
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167 |
Think Tank XI
Education as a Visitor Management Technique in Remote ...
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16665 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Remote protected areas are often vulnerable to impacts by visitors. This is generally due to the dual implications of remoteness: a) the area's ecosystems remaining largely undisturbed by human activity (Carey, Dudley and Stolton, 2000) and...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2011
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166 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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4357 | 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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165 |
Think Tank X
The Role of Knowledge-based Networks in Sustainable To...
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4598 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In practice, tourism organisations tend to be more serious towards their financial viability and therefore undermine long-term socio-cultural and environmental consequences. In so doing they impede their own ability and that of the destinat...
Author: Ehsan Ahmed & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2010
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164 |
Think Tank X
Implementing Networks of the New Zealand Tourism Strat...
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7098 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The areas of tourism planning and strategy are frequently at the focus of academic enquiry; however, the implementation of the planning results is not. The small number of existing studies suggests that many difficulties associated with pla...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht
Year: 2010
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163 |
Think Tank X
Rather Together? Network Effects among Students
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12014 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Being faced with global trends that challenge the way tourism is conducted at present (Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Roman and Scott, 2009; Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Scott, Roman and C., 2008), educators worldwide have recognized the need to ad...
Author: Florian Aubke, Ivo Ponocny & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2010
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162 |
Think Tank X
The Importance of Networks for Innovation in Sustainab...
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6324 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This paper highlights the importance of new and established networks that underpin the innovation processes in sustainable tourism. It will draw on published literature as well as case studies to describe the various types of networks that ...
Author: Jack Carlsen, Janne J. Liburd & Deborah Edwards
Year: 2010
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161 |
Think Tank X
Climate Change Mitigation among Accommodation Provider...
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5866 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This paper explores the relationship between network membership and innovation towards more sustainable tourism development. In particular it examines the extent to which tourism businesses have introduced measures to mitigate the effects of...
Author: Tim Coles, Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner & Claire Dinan
Year: 2010
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160 |
Think Tank X
Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network
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6886 | Oct 14, 2013 |
How the informal sectors create and share innovation in gaining competition is very important in tourism development. Commonly, informal sectors are embedded in their routines and lack of innovation capacities. Based on the case of pedicab ...
Author: Maya Damayanti
Year: 2010
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159 |
Think Tank X
How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...
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10374 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This case study complements recent research on FDI in tourism in African countries conducted by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These projects aim to better understand the pro-development effects of tourism...
Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli
Year: 2010
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158 |
Think Tank X
Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...
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6014 | Oct 14, 2013 |
As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi...
Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber
Year: 2010
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157 |
Think Tank X
The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism...
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10673 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ...
Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll
Year: 2010
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156 |
OPA award
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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5852 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc...
Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford
Year: 2010
OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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155 |
Think Tank X
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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8007 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc...
Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford
Year: 2010
OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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