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Think Tank VII
Innovations in Volunteer Tourism: A Case Study of Fund...
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8579 | 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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133 |
Think Tank IX
The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...
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8641 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ...
Author: Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2009
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132 |
Think Tank XI
Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...
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8676 | 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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131 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring the potential of Community Based Ecotourism ...
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8739 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Development in developing countries often results in mass land-use change and subsequent increase in greenhouse gas emission by deforestation or forest degradation. For instance, approximately a-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions was a...
Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton, Amy Reggers & Hanna Sakata
Year: 2014
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130 |
Think Tank XV
Why Africans do not visit their national parks: A case...
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8765 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Present-day Western approaches relating to nature and natural resources management assume that humans are independent from the natural world (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). Protected areas such as Yellowstone National Park were created with ...
Author: Lesego S. Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane
Year: 2015
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129 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...
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8832 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important issue for some governments but the tourism industry appears to be slow in adopting CSR strategies. By focusing on CSR, we argue that the implementation of CSR audits could help t...
Author: Ya-Ting Huang, David Botterill & Eleri Jones
Year: 2006
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128 |
Think Tank VIII
Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...
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8837 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ...
Author: Larry Dwyer
Year: 2008
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127 |
Think Tank IX
Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...
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8839 | Oct 13, 2013 |
What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,...
Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth
Year: 2009
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126 |
Think Tank XIII
Modeling the Index Components of Tourist Satisfaction ...
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8956 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Destination performance evaluation has become an increasingly important task for effective destination management and sustainable destination development. However, it is a complex task due to the inclusion of diverse subsectors, business com...
Author: Toney K. Thomas
Year: 2013
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125 |
Think Tank XV
A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...
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8965 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins...
Author: Amy Savener
Year: 2015
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124 |
Think Tank VII
Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...
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9077 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This is a study of the relationships between two volunteer tourism host communities and the volunteer tourists who visit them. One is a declining rural community located in the Appalachian mountains of the United States. The other is in a ra...
Author: Nancy McGehee
Year: 2007
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123 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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9084 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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122 |
Think Tank XII
Employee Work Attitudes, Mobility and Promotional Oppo...
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9164 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The issue of employee mobility is brought into sharp focus in times of economic and social uncertainty. Previous studies into the causes of employee mobility have investigated, among other determinants, the link between the promotional oppor...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Michael Stewart
Year: 2012
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121 |
Think Tank IV
Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...
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9194 | Dec 01, 2013 |
Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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120 |
Think Tank XII
Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ...
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9266 | Nov 06, 2013 |
It is nearing the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) (United Nations, 2011), an awareness raising campaign which “seeks to mobilize the educational resources of the world to help create a mo...
Author: Erica Wilson, Tania von der Heidt, Geoffrey Lamberton & Dayle Morrison
Year: 2012
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119 |
Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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9330 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ...
Author: Miha Bratec
Year: 2008
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118 |
OPA award
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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9375 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2005
OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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117 |
Think Tank VIII
Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...
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9407 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated...
Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar
Year: 2008
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116 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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9491 | Dec 19, 2013 |
This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...
Author: Kitsada Tungchawal
Year: 2008
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115 |
OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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9500 | 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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