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Think Tank X
Rather Together? Network Effects among Students
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13305 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Being faced with global trends that challenge the way tourism is conducted at present (Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Roman and Scott, 2009; Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Scott, Roman and C., 2008), educators worldwide have recognized the need to ad...
Author: Florian Aubke, Ivo Ponocny & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2010
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Think Tank VII
The Community of Communicators and the Communication o...
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13329 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In spite of the trend towards business as a key element in society and tourism, governments still play an important role in the sustainable development debate. Like any social institution, governments and related organizations do not always ...
Author: Keith Henning
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XIV
Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge...
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13608 | Jul 07, 2014 |
David's presentation outlines the major market failures in tourism production and consumption and questions the changing role of (public sector) governments in market regulation and ‘economic’ development. The presentation focuses specifical...
Author: David G. Simmons
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VII
There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...
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13647 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h...
Author: Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2007
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50 |
Think Tank V
Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...
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14070 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In an era of considerable disaster and uncertainty, many destinations have been made alarmingly aware of the fickle nature of tourism. While peak industry bodies, academics and professionals advocate the introduction of risk/crisis managemen...
Author: Yetta Gurtner
Year: 2005
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49 |
Think Tank V
Reflecting or Directing Perceptions? Fox Media’s Respo...
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14268 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Disasters at tourism destinations often receive extensive reporting in the news media, particularly when one or more of their own nationals are affected. From terrorism to natural disasters, the stories of tourists and, more recently, their ...
Author: Sue Beeton
Year: 2005
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Think Tank XVIII
Visitor management in protected areas
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14350 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand
Author: Julia Nina Albrecht
Year: 2018
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47 |
Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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14438 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st...
Author: Marina Novelli
Year: 2009
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46 |
Think Tank VII
Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris...
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14541 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Communities have a variety of interest levels in tourism overall, including sustainable tourism (WTO, 2002). While we have witnessed increased awareness and discussions about sustainability and sustainable tourism, there is often a lack of s...
Author: Cynthia Messer, Ingrid Schneider & Okechukwu Ukaga
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VI
Testing Clarkson’s Typical Corporate and Stakeholder I...
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14793 | 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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44 |
Think Tank XIII
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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14974 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...
Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee
Year: 2013
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Think Tank XVI
Sustainable Tourism Managment on Small Island Destinat...
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15145 | Jul 02, 2016 |
On December 11th, 2015 climate change negotiations came to a close after the COP21 – 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Across media channels and climate protests the event was referred to as “the last chance summit”, w...
Author: Bonnie Lewtas & René Schmidpeter
Year: 2016
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42 |
Think Tank V
Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters
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15247 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism is especially vulnerable to disasters and, being fragmented, often its response is difficult to initiate and coordinate. It is also information intensive and when in chaos its information needs are exacerbated. The paper aims to deve...
Author: Nina Mistilis & Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2005
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41 |
Think Tank XI
What Do Tourism Students Know About Sustainability and...
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15324 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The topic of sustainable tourism education has only recently started to emerge in the tourism literature. A few tourism scholars have raised concerns about the need to prepare future tourism professionals for real life planning and manageme...
Author: Blanca A. Camargo & Ulrike Gretzel
Year: 2011
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40 |
Think Tank XIV
Bird-watching Routes as Collaborative Stakeholderships...
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15325 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Although there are numerous birding trails with varying levels of success, prior to this study, little research existed as to how birding trails are designed, implemented and managed. Thus, the study posed and answered the following research...
Author: Krisztian Vas
Year: 2014
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39 |
Think Tank XII
Origins, Evolution and Potential Future of the Coastal...
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15433 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Coastal caravan parks in Australia are in decline due to the conversion of beachfront land to higher yielding forms of commercial enterprise (Prideaux and McClymont, 2006; Tourism Research Australia, 2007). The resulting reduction in accommo...
Author: Rod Caldicott & Pascal Scherrer
Year: 2012
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38 |
Think Tank XV
The operational challenges of community-based tourism ...
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15939 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Community-based tourism is increasingly being developed and promoted as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries assisting local communities to meet their needs through the offering of a tourism product. The Swaziland Tourism Auth...
Author: S. E. Lukhele & K. F. Mearns
Year: 2015
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Think Tank V
Resident Segments Using SUS-TAS
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15941 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recognizing that tools developed solely to measure perceptions of positive/negative impacts of tourism within the traditional conceptual works are insufficient, recently Choi and Sirakaya (2005) developed and tested both an innovative framew...
Author: Ercan Sirakayae, Linda J. Ingram & Hwan Suk Chris Choi
Year: 2005
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36 |
Think Tank VII
The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...
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16211 | Oct 13, 2013 |
"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character...
Author: Alan A. Lew
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XVII
Applying water quality as a management tool for the wi...
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16730 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Growing human populations led to expanding agriculture and industrial activities, and during the last decade raised international concern as fresh water quality has deteriorated on a global scale. In addition, climate change threatens to cau...
Author: JJ Grobler and KF Mearns
Year: 2017
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