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Think Tank IX
Achieving Sustainability in Business Events; Challengi...
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3673 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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Achieving sustainability is a challenge for all of society, but one that may prove especially problematic for the business events sector. Tourism in general and the business events industry in particular may be even more susceptible than oth...
Author: Judith Mair & Leo Jago
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Tourism Price Competitiveness: a neglected ‘value’ in ...
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3530 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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Price competitiveness is one of the most important factors in the overall tourism competitiveness of a country or a destination. There is widely accepted evidence that prices are one of the most important factors in decisions about whether, ...
Author: Larry Dwyer & Peter Forsyth
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
De-constructing the Cosmopolitan Gaze
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3195 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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
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Think Tank IX
Developing a knowledge platform on value of parks for ...
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2897 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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
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Think Tank IX
Values: Dollars, trees or feelings?
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2661 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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The importance of values to tourism is but one aspect of the importance of values in human interactions with the natural environment and even more broadly to the human condition. However, attempts to understand the impact of values on behav...
Author: Denise Dillon
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Recreation Specialisation and Destination Image: A cas...
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2595 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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,...
Author: Kevin Lyons, Kevin Markwell & Patricia Johnson
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t...
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2494 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200...
Author: Caroline Scarles
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t...
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2129 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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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