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Think Tank VI
Hilton Environmental Reporting as a Tool of Corporate ...
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9060 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on the history, criteria and procedures within Hilton Environmental Reporting, a computerized reporting tool created by Addsystems for Hilton International. The development and implementation process of the upgraded versi...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Authenticity in Cultural Heritage Tourism as a means t...
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4937 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This work aims through a clarification of philosophical assumptions to define authenticity in a dialogical perspective on the premise that there is a linkage between authenticity and sustainability. This paper will to discuss the development...
Author: Bente Bramming
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...
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4612 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A problem in developing new tourism markets remains how to resource them from an existing employment base. Key questions arising are: Do current tourism enterprises have the existing skills to move into these new markets for sustainable tour...
Author: Susan Anita Briggs
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees in Susta...
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3958 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has developed significantly over the last decade and has taken on a myriad of meanings. For many companies, it is a philosophy that helps guide their actions in the external environment. E...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Responsibility as Essential to Sustainable T...
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3779 | Oct 13, 2013 |
For tourism development to have sustainable outcomes at the destination level, business operations must be sustainable. Sustainable development for business means adopting strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and ...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Liz Fredline, Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Museum Sector a...
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5960 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Out of a growing concern about the erosion of social infrastructure has come an increase in pressure on business to take up more of the responsibility in meeting community needs (Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 2000; Loza & Ogilvie...
Author: Deborah Edwards
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role...
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7431 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The integration of sustainability within the domain of tourism has recently made considerable progress. For instance, in the UK and the Netherlands, the most important federations of tour operators, the FTO and the ANVR, have introduced obli...
Author: Menno Houtstra
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...
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6375 | 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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Think Tank VI
National Park as a Social Corporation
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3997 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The issue is discussed how authorities of National Parks that aim to preserve biosphere can enlarge income. A review indicates that many Parks generate high income from tourism. A Dutch case illustrates that one can find sustainable innovat...
Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Christensen-Redzepovic
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Family Businesses and Sustainable Tourism: the Role of...
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4004 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Family businesses, that is, businesses owned and/or operated my members of a single family, are predominant in Western economies. This is also an important category of business within tourism hospitality, particularly in rural areas where r...
Author: Janne J. Liburd & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ...
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3730 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The research aims to develop a conceptual model of e-commerce adoption in tourism enterprises. The paper begins with a literature review identifying the opportunities and competitive advantage for tourism enterprises associated with E-commer...
Author: Nina Mistilis & John D’Ambra
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Catalan hospita...
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76765 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The practices of CSR have attracted the attention of the investigators, who have prepared a great diversity of theories and the international organisms, which have done recommendations, so that the companies have added them in their strategi...
Author: Ramon Palau
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Testing Clarkson’s Typical Corporate and Stakeholder I...
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9463 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In today’s world of growing concern over the social and environmental effect of tourism, the responsibility for the future of our society is moving from simply relying on our political leaders and interest groups towards the concept that cor...
Author: Catrina Papaleo & Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Ecotourism and Environmental Education: Opportunities ...
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155056 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ecotourism, which typically involves nature-based tourism, plays an increasing role in today's environmental management. As environmental conservation has, in many cases, suffered from a limited budget, funding ecotourism is perceived as a w...
Author: Aphirom Promchanya
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Ethical Issues in Collaboration in the Aviation Industry
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40517 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aviation industry is a critical element of any tourism system, and has several secondary effects – a source of employment and foreign exchange earnings. A ‘national carrier’ is also a symbol of the country, a source of pride amongst the ...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Travel & Tourism B...
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6025 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses some economic, social, and environmental “hard issues” for the travel and tourism (T&T) industry with the aim of shedding some light on little discussed aspects of industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) with ...
Author: David Stipanuk
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Interven...
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9726 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Implicit in notions of sustainable development is an holistic triple bottom line approach that seeks to preserve essential ecological processes, protect human heritage and biodiversity and foster inter and intra-generational equity whilst r...
Author: David Wood & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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Think Tank V
Political Instability and its Effects on Tourism
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7502 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism today is second only to oil as the world’s leading export commodity, accounting for global earnings of more than $300 billion, or nearly 25 per cent of total world GNP (Poirier 2000, p30, cited in Dieke, 2000). Over the last two deca...
Author: Sarah JR Ryu
Year: 2005
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Think Tank V
Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane...
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5200 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper examines the coverage of Hurricane Ivan in the Caribbean published in selected leading UK newspapers in September 2004. Quantitative textual analysis have been utilised in this study to determine the main sources of information on...
Author: Marcella Daye
Year: 2005
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Think Tank V
Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...
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4650 | Oct 13, 2013 |
How to manage risks that endanger development of tourism but that are caused by tourism itself? An industry-based model is presented as an analytic tool and adapted to the situation in tourism. It is argued that development of tourism lacks ...
Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Redzepovic
Year: 2005
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