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Key words: small accommodation, sustainable tourism, business models
The ability of businesses to influence the sustainability of tourism development is generally examined from two standpoints: the regulatory frameworks requiring particular actions with respect to how business is carried out, or to clients; ...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2016
Tourism planning in protected areas (PAs) entails addressing two partly competing and overlapping goals: preserving heritage and providing access. Resolving potential conflicts between these two goals is particularly challenging at the inter...
Author: MorenTibabo Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane
Year: 2015
Key words: religious tourism, pilgrimage, sustainable practicesPages: 8-11 Pilgrim experience as an avenue for sustainable tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-nam...
Author: Senebto Dagnachew
Year: 2019
Tourism destinations have a responsibility to preserve their own mainstay. Sustainable product development can aid the longevity of a destination by supporting local environmental, social and economic aspects. This, however, requires a coord...
Author: Fabian Weber & Barbara Taufer
Key words: Dive tourism, marine life, current and future threats, mitigation, resilience, sustainability. Page: 12-33 The dive resort industry in Indonesia.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoN...
Author: Joerg Domroes and Mondher Sahli
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Author: Harald Buijtendijk, Jorine Vermeer & Juultje Blom
Key words: Sustainable tourism development; co-design; collaboration; education; transformative learning. Page: 34-37 Bridging the Gap.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style...
Author: Eva Duedahl and Janne Liburd
There has always been a disparity between active mining and tourism mainly due to the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mines on both the adjacent resident communities and the areas taken up by the mining operation. Although herit...
Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels
Businesses committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are guided by policy that focuses on the integration of social and environmental concerns in all aspects of business strategy and practice (Lund-Durlacher, 2015). This paper cons...
Author: Tamara Young & Amy Maguire
Tourism is the fourth largest economic contributor globally and outperforms the growth of the world economy (United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 2013). But tourism growth comes at a cost. Not surprisingly, therefore, tourism i...
Author: Sara Dolnicar & Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar & Bettina Grun
Year: 2017
The contribution of the tourism sector towards the development of host nations is undeniable in that it provides several benefits such as creation of employment, generation of added value and tax revenue, and boosting of inward foreign direc...
Author: Robin Nunkoo & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Boopen Seetanah & Robin Sannassee
Despite widespread recognition of the importance of all tourism stakeholders adopting sustainability attitudes and practices, with a huge descriptive and prescriptive literature highlighting ‘best practice’, things seem to be getting worse....
Author: Larry Dwyer & Verity Anne Greenwood
Key words: Conservation Behaviour, The Great Barrier Reef, Delphi Techniques
Author: Karen Hofman
Year: 2018
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
Rock art is found across the world and is a unique heritage which is divided into three main categories; rock paintings (pictographs), rock engravings, (petroglyphs), and geoglyphs (natural objects used as designs) (Anati, 1993; Clottes, 199...
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
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
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
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: inclusive tourism, visual impairment, sighted guiding, motivation
Author: Kristof Tomej