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Author : Kevin Lyons, Kevin Markwell & Patricia Johnson
School/Work Place : University of Newcastle, Australia (Kevin Lyons, Patricia Johnson) & Southern Cross University, Australia (Kevin Markwell)
Contact : Kevin.Lyons@newcastle.edu.au, kevin.markwell@scu.edu.au, Patricia.Johnson@newcastle.edu.au
Year : 2009

Papua New Guinea (PNG) should be to Australia what Costa Rica and Belize are to the USA – a proximate and successful tourist destination that attracts sustainable numbers of tourists drawn to the extraordinary diversity of endemic wildlife, habitats and the diverse range of cultural groups. Belize and Costa Rica have embraced ecotourism to the extent that ecotourism is now a significant earner of foreign exchange as well as an important mechanism for conserving biodiversity and facilitating local and regional sustainable development (see Weaver 1999).


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
114 Think Tank XVII The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with th... file 5822 Aug 17, 2017

The emergence of information technology has a profound impact on tourism industry. Today, visitors are more inclined to have searched the Internet to gain more pre-tour knowledge for the destinations than before. The advances of the various ...

Author: Daisy Suk-fong FUNG 

Year: 2017 

113 Think Tank XIII Linking tourism with Sustainable Development in Post-R... file 5790 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines relationships between tourism and sustainable development via a case study that took place in Egypt from September 2011 to March 2012. The study, hosted by the Planeterra Foundation and G Adventures travel and conducted t...

Author: Laura Carroll 

Year: 2013 

112 Think Tank XVIII Communication of Sustainability Efforts in the Hospita... file 5773 Jan 07, 2019

Keywords: green marketing, sustainability engagement, small / owner-managed hotels

Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe 

Year: 2018 

111 Think Tank IX Developing a knowledge platform on value of parks for ... file 5749 Oct 13, 2013

National Parks and other protected natural areas are a significant point of focus for tourism activity globally. Consequently it is important to understand the values of parks for tourism to assist with effective policy, planning and manage...

Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2009 

110 Think Tank XII Virtual Mobilities and Sustainable Tourism: Virtual Fi... file 5738 Nov 06, 2013

Due to the financial constraints on the part of the educational institution as well as the student, offsetting the GHG emissions generated by the fieldtrip is often not regarded as financially feasible, or subject to doubts about the integri...

Author: Christian Schott 

Year: 2012 

109 Think Tank XIX Sustainability cues for the post-booking phase of a to... file 5732 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: sustainable tourist experience, cueing, cognitive dissonance, availability heuristic, representativeness heuristic Page: 199-207 Sustainability cues for the post-booking phase of a tourist experience.pdf Normal 0 false false false...

Author: Kristof Tomej 

Year: 2019 

108 Think Tank XII Ex Post Investigations of Tourist Consumptions and Env... file 5731 Nov 06, 2013

Progress towards a more sustainable future of tourism is conditioned by simultaneous improvements of the production and consumption of leisure. Consequently, efforts are done by companies (hotels, airlines, tour operators, etc), governmental...

Author: Adriana Budeanu 

Year: 2012 

107 Think Tank IV Evaluation of Tourism Events: A Critical Review with a... file 5725 Oct 13, 2013

This presentation will critically review the three main sources of error in tourism event evaluation, related to the limited temporal, geographic and economic scope of current event evaluation approaches. In doing so, it will draw the attent...

Author: Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2004 

106 Think Tank VIII Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H... file 5698 Oct 13, 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an anal...

Author: Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox 

Year: 2008 

105 Think Tank XVI CSR in Medical Toursim – new markets, new responsibili... file 5693 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 

104 OPA award Can Direct Communication at the Point of Consumption R... file 5584 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: food waste, food signage, sustainability, experiment

Author: Hannes Antonschmidt & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2018 

103 Think Tank XIX Multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative tou... file 5568 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: sustainable tourism education, transformative education, collaborative learning, multi-stakeholder collaboration Page: 119-124 Multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative tourism education.pdf

Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Ulrich Gunter and Gordon Sillence 

Year: 2019 

102 Think Tank XVIII SMTE’s use of SoMe and Sustainability file 5559 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.

Author: Ida Marie Visbech Andersen 

Year: 2018 

101 OPA award Active community participation in nature conservation ... file 5551 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 

100 Think Tank XIX Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Medite... file 5514 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: Protected Areas, ecotourism, sustainable tourism, Mediterranean, Ecological Footprint Page: 194-198 Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Mediterranean Region.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style D...

Author: Jeremy Sampson, Natalie Beckett and Carla Danelutti 

Year: 2019 

99 Think Tank IX De-constructing the Cosmopolitan Gaze file 5481 Oct 13, 2013

Introduction: Nurturing effective intercultural dialogue through tourism has been positioned to be an emergent challenge to tourism professionals working toward sustainability in a globalised world (Robinson and Picard 2006). This interdisci...

Author: Patricia Johnson 

Year: 2009 

98 Think Tank X Knowledge Economies, Knowledge Making, Complexity Theo... file 5476 Oct 14, 2013

This paper narrates processes associated with the development of microtourism enterprises as one part of a broader organically determined sustainable development agenda in a north eastern coastal village in Bali. The paper’s narrative is co...

Author: Gayle Jennings 

Year: 2010 

97 Think Tank XVIII Defining Small Accommodation Establishments: employing... file 5471 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: small accommodation, sustainable tourism, business models

Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2018 

96 Think Tank XV A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship file 5466 Jul 24, 2015

As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; T...

Author: Mingming Chen, Deborah Edward, Simon Darcy 

Year: 2015 

95 Think Tank XII Evaluation of the accessibility of Monterrey's Tourism... file 5441 Nov 06, 2013

Despite several declarations, policies and regulations that seek to protect their rights, people with disabilities still encounter several constrains that impede their full participation in society, and, in particular, their access to and en...

Author: Blanca A. Camargo, Isabel Sánchez, Fátima Guajardo & Alejandro García 

Year: 2012 

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