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Key words: inclusive tourism, visual impairment, sighted guiding, motivation
Responsible tourism incorporates economic, environmental and social imperatives in accordance with ‘sustainable tourism’ notions (Booyens & Rogerson, 2016a). This research argues that tourism firms need to innovate in order to be economi...
Author: Irma Booyens and Christian M. Rogerson
Year: 2017
Many Australian tourism ventures today promote Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge (AIBK) (Pert, Ens, Locke, Clarke, Packer & Turpin, 2015) through bush-tucker tours, interpretive displays in cultural centres, arts and crafts, et...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Mark Harvey & Ian D. Clark & Tamara Young
Food consumption is seen by most tourists as an important part of their holiday and tourism often takes place in ecologically, socially and culturally sensitive destinations. Through food consumption, it is not only possible to support heal...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Hannes Antonschmidt & Klaus-Peter Fritz
Year: 2016
Key words: protected areas, resilience thinking, sustainability, marketing, tool
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2018
Key words: Sustainable Tourism Products, Sustainable tourism certification schemes, Certification
Author: Martin Balas & Wolfgang Strasdas
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Author: Tinat Nhep, Mondher Sahli and Christian Schott
Year: 2019
The sustainability concept has become popular after it was first used in almost three decades ago in what is now a renowned report, Our Common Future by Brundtland’s World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987). Although much...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Seyhmuz Baloglu & Haywantee Rumi Ramkissoon
This study investigates environmental attitudes and concerns of Germans tourists towards climate change. Furthermore it analyses if there are attempts to neutralise air travel emissions by means of voluntary carbon-offsetting. Past research...
Author: Isabell Wulfsberg, Dirk Reiser, Volker Rundshagen & Nicolai Scherle
Although the discussion on Accessible Tourism has increased in intensity over the past 20 years, and by now there are even a few examples of Good Practices being implemented, it nevertheless must be pointed out that this approach is not yet ...
Author: Andreas Kagermeier
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Author: Isabel Lissner & Marius Mayer
Earlier studies have stimulated much debate regarding enclave tourism development in developing countries (Britton 1982). However, it is increasingly being acknowledged that despite criticisms, all forms of tourism have the potential to cont...
Author: Perunjodi Naidoo
Key words: tourism association, inclusive development, tourism marketing
Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns
This paper employs a dynamic time series econometrics framework, namely a vector error correction model (VECM), to investigate the link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourist arrivals in Mauritius for the period 1980-2015. The r...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, & Boopen Seetanah
Key words: sustainable urban tourism, urban regeneration, precincts, Johannesburg Maboneng
Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels & Emma J Pearse
Author: Kristof Tomej
The extensive growth of the tourism sector entails both beneficial economic contribution and negative environmental and socio-economic impacts. In order to protect the resources tourism is based upon, greater levels of sustainability are ne...
Author: Christina Tölkes
Key words: story-telling, landscapes, interpretation, sustainable tourism experiences
Author: Gianna Moscardo & Karen Hughes
During the past decades, concern for rural poverty and underdevelopment of the rural communities of Namibia has been central to government development efforts. This has further given rise to several rural development programmes. While, some ...
Author: Erling Kavita
Year: 2015
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) to manage environmental, social and economic impacts has been widely researched in tourism. However, there is criticism of the lack of non-western, local perspectives in tourism planning and management,...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Tamara Young & Mark Harvey
Key words: Visitor books, visitor experience, visitor satisfaction, Mnemba Island, Zanzibar.
Author: Kevin Mearns