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Think Tank XII
Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations
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1991 | Nov 06, 2013 |
In the arena of resort development, there is a long history of destinations emulating (and seeking to surpass) one another in efforts to maintain competitiveness. In recent years, the use of “best case” examples are common tools employed to ...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2012
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93 |
Think Tank XV
Perceptions of local communities participation in rura...
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1988 | Jul 27, 2015 |
In order to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs, rural communities should be able to participate actively in all aspects of tourism, including planning and management. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the local communit...
Author: Limpho Lekaota & Jarkko Saarined
Year: 2015
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92 |
Think Tank XVI
Third sector organisations and stakeholders in tourism...
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1984 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This paper identifies and explains roles, functions and structures in visitor management of protected areas in nature-based tourism in New Zealand. Establishing the benefits and disadvantages arising from the implementation of any particula...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht
Year: 2016
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91 |
Think Tank XVI
SWOT Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship in Enterprises
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1966 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Social Enterprise is known as a non-profit action aiming social benefits. Social entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is social actions which create permanent and sustainable values by offering innovative perspectives to find solutions fors...
Author: Sema Alimoğlu Özkan & Ali Şükrü Çetinkaya
Year: 2016
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90 |
Think Tank VII
Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...
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1939 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201...
Author: Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2007
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89 |
Think Tank XIX
Promoting sustainable tourist experiences and resilien...
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1930 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: adapt, resilient, tourist experience, Maasai, Tanzania Page: 38-51 Promoting sustainable tourist experiences and resilient communities in the Ngorongoro Crater.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definition...
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred and Kevin Mearns
Year: 2019
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Think Tank IX
Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t...
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1922 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Furthermore, social identity theory suggests that people are attracted to others who are familiar to themselves because their similarity reinforces their self-image (Tajfel, 1982), and that people from collectivist culture tend to favour in-...
Author: Rui Jin Hoare, Ken Butcher & Danny O'Brien
Year: 2009
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87 |
Think Tank X
Knowledge Economies, Knowledge Making, Complexity Theo...
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1919 | Oct 13, 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
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86 |
OPA award
Can Direct Communication at the Point of Consumption R...
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1907 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: food waste, food signage, sustainability, experiment
Author: Hannes Antonschmidt & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2018
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85 |
Think Tank XVII
Investigating the impact of climate change on the tour...
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1887 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The tourism sector is vital for the development of small island developing states. However, climate change can negatively impact on tourism demand and affect these economies both on the economic and social level. The purpose of this study is...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, Boopen Seetanah, Robin Sannassee & Robin Nunkoo
Year: 2017
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84 |
Think Tank XVII
E-Mobility as an Innovation for a Sustainable Destinat...
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1865 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The project "E-Destination” funded by Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) aims to show whether and in what form electro-mobility can play a bigger role regarding tourism in the rural region of Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee), Baden-...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2017
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83 |
Think Tank XVI
Towards Sustainable Tourism: Whatfactors most influenc...
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1862 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Tourism is a major activity for some Mediterranean economies. While the growth of tourism over the last few decades has had many positive effects, it has also harmed the environment when this growth has not been planned in a sustainable way...
Author: Arayeh Afsordegan, Mar Vila, NúriaAgell, Mónica Sánchez
Year: 2016
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82 |
Think Tank XVI
Responsible High Performance Sport Travel – Opportunit...
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1858 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel
Year: 2016
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81 |
Think Tank XVI
Adoption and diffusion of sustainability in tourism an...
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1814 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This study explores why family firms adopt social and ecological policies that go beyond regulations, which includes hard (e.g., law; Berrone et al., 2010) or soft (e.g., certificates; Rivera, 2002) regulations. To accomplish this, the stud...
Author: Johanna Zanon, Andreas Kallmuenzer, William Nikolakis & Mike Peters
Year: 2016
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80 |
Think Tank XVII
Reducing economic leakages from tourism: A value chain...
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1790 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The research is funded by the Centre for the Development of Enterprise and with the guidance of the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD. The authors would like to thank Pablo LoMoro at the International Trade Centre for his considerable sup...
Author: Andrew Rylance & Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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79 |
Think Tank XV
Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...
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1750 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourism is a fragile industry with multiple stakeholders. Globally, the desire of its stakeholders is to gain more benefits and eliminate negative impacts on resources that support the industry, particularly in protected areas (PAs) such as ...
Author: Richie Wandwi
Year: 2015
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78 |
Think Tank XVII
A meta-analysis of the tourism and economic growth nexus
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1745 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The existing literature is fraught with empirical studies delineating the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth. However, the results are at best inconclusive. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to investigate the unde...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Robin Nunkoo & Raja Vinesh Sannassee & Paul Georges Warren Moraghen & Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur
Year: 2017
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77 |
Think Tank XVIII
Indigenous destination development: Nudging key player...
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1678 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Key players, sustainable tourism impact, tourism planning
Author: Astrid Frischknecht, Celiane Camargo-Borges & Celeste Wilderom
Year: 2018
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76 |
Think Tank XVI
Crowdsourcing – New Ways of an efficient Corporate Soc...
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1627 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) play a more and more crucial role in the development of hotel business. A study of the French hotel company Accor shows, that sustainability is a determining factor of ...
Author: Matthias Straub
Year: 2016
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75 |
Think Tank XVII
Providing sustainable innovations in the hospitality i...
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1624 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Sustainability and eco-friendliness is gaining considerable attention within the hotel industry (Chen, Sloan & Legrand, 2009; Kim & Han, 2010). There has been a growing awareness of the environmental and social influence of hotel ope...
Author: Julia Zimmermann & Matthias Straub
Year: 2017
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