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Think Tank VIII
Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o...
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8731 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In this paper we take the standpoint that environmental education and ecotourism are highly related and depend on each other, and that ecotourism cannot be achieved without proper environmental education. Furthermore, in order to achieve qu...
Author: Mojca Arsenijevic & Marko Bohanec
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: Th...
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3381 | Oct 13, 2013 |
As an international tourism destination, Turkey serves mostly European tourist markets due to her closeness to European markets. Turkey and Europe has a long shared history of relationships. However, Turkey and Turkish people have a rather b...
Author: Yasin Boylu, Asli D. A. Tasci & William C. Gartner
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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4820 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...
Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VII
The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...
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7777 | 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 VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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9145 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recent challenges within the hospitality industry highlight a critical need for research and innovation to inform management practice. Surprisingly, however, a comprehensive review of literature has found that innovation research within the...
Author: Conrad Lashley & Barry O'Mahony
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...
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2152 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201...
Author: Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VI
Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...
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4242 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A problem in developing new tourism markets remains how to resource them from an existing employment base. Key questions arising are: Do current tourism enterprises have the existing skills to move into these new markets for sustainable tour...
Author: Susan Anita Briggs
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Ecotourism and Environmental Education: Opportunities ...
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152689 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ecotourism, which typically involves nature-based tourism, plays an increasing role in today's environmental management. As environmental conservation has, in many cases, suffered from a limited budget, funding ecotourism is perceived as a w...
Author: Aphirom Promchanya
Year: 2006
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Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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7058 | 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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Think Tank IV
Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust...
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8606 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This brief paper describes a new educational model developed at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) to link theory and practice, or more specifically, coordinate learning opportunities between the classroom (Sustainable Tourism) and current pr...
Author: James Holleran
Year: 2004
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