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Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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4220 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Surf beach drowning is an example of a tourist injury problem in Australia. In this paper, a process is outlined to identify and tease out the roles and relationships among causal risk factors, markers of risk, and components of risk exposur...
Author: Damian Morgan
Year: 2005
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393 |
Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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7312 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper details the development, delivery and outcomes of a Masters course in Tourism Development that was delivered by the Royal University of Phnom Penh, with the assistance and support of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and t...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2005
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392 |
Think Tank V
Tourism in Small Communities: Risks and Benefits
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3762 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the findings from a Sustainable Tourism Co-operative Research Centre study into the risks associated with the social impacts of tourism on a small community in the Australian state of Tasmania. This state is known for its...
Author: Leo Jago, Margaret Deery & Liz Fredline
Year: 2005
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391 |
Think Tank V
Ecolabels and Green Globe 21: Awareness and Consumer A...
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4293 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A case in point is New Zealand, where tourism has long been recognised as an important economic force; this is aptly illustrated by the sector’s contribution of 9.6% to the country’s GDP in 2003 (TRCNZ, 2005). The resource at the heart of mu...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2005
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390 |
Think Tank V
Resident Segments Using SUS-TAS
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5327 | 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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389 |
Think Tank V
Discussion on Extended Validity of an Alternative Fram...
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211154 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The risk management of tourism as an industry involves quantification of unprecedented, unlikely but possible negative exogenous event to the region. The objective of this paper is to discuss further on an alternative quantitative method to ...
Author: Tadayuki Hara
Year: 2005
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388 |
Think Tank V
An Economic Explanation of the Net Benefits of Tourism...
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2948 | Oct 13, 2013 |
International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism...
Author: Mondher Sahli & Jean-Jacques Nowak
Year: 2005
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387 |
Think Tank V
Effects of SARS Crisis on the Economic Contribution of...
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3859 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In a context of uncertainty over traveller security, tourism experienced two major crises in 2003- the Iraq War and SARS. While the relative impacts of a complex array of impacts on travel decisionmaking are almost impossible to dissect, thi...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth & Ray Spurr
Year: 2005
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386 |
Think Tank V
Reflecting or Directing Perceptions? Fox Media’s Respo...
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12138 | 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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385 |
Think Tank V
Communicating with Visitors During and After a Natural...
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3189 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism is often a significant component of a region or country’s economic, social, cultural and environmental well-being and a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tsunami, landslide, flood or bushfire may cause a range of impacts on the d...
Author: E. Kate Armstrong
Year: 2005
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384 |
Think Tank V
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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5635 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2005
OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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OPA award
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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7511 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2005
OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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382 |
Think Tank V
Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...
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10794 | 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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381 |
Think Tank V
Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters
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13287 | 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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380 |
Think Tank V
Using Theories of Stigma Management and Impression Man...
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6549 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Researchers have noted that impression management is key to tourism crisis management planning and recovery (Ritchie et al., 2003:201); indeed, some have suggested that “crisis management is as much about dealing with human perceptions about...
Author: Bonalyn Nelson
Year: 2005
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379 |
Think Tank V
Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...
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4480 | 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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378 |
Think Tank V
Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane...
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5155 | 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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377 |
Think Tank V
Political Instability and its Effects on Tourism
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7015 | 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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376 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Interven...
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9592 | 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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375 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Travel & Tourism B...
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5764 | 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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