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Think Tank IX
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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34471 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper evaluates cultural conflicts between indigenous groups, recreation users and management agencies over the appropriate amenity use of protected areas in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It assesses both social values conflicts ...
Author: Heather Zeppel
Year: 2009
OPA: 2009 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank XII
Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...
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35909 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ...
Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Runner Up
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Think Tank VI
Ethical Issues in Collaboration in the Aviation Industry
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40211 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aviation industry is a critical element of any tourism system, and has several secondary effects – a source of employment and foreign exchange earnings. A ‘national carrier’ is also a symbol of the country, a source of pride amongst the ...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2006
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Think Tank XII
The Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds in 2010 and 2011 on ...
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40975 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Few recent events which disrupted global tourism and especially tourism mobility, match the impact of the volcanic ash clouds generated from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 and the Chilean volcano Puyehue in 20...
Author: David Beirman
Year: 2012
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OPA award
Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...
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41449 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Methods for researching the future have grown both in variety and rigour, offering new opportunities for understanding sustainable tourism. This paper discusses the value of futures research as a tool for envisioning and planning sustainable...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2007
OPA: 2007 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank XVII
New Forms of ‘Responsible Tourism’ in Refugee Camps an...
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43327 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Responsible Tourism is about “making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit”. Traveling responsibly is thus about managing travel and destinations in an environmentally and culturally responsible way and de...
Author: Jaume Guia, Sil van de Velde & Lauren Chan
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XIV
Tropical Communities as Resources for Tourism or Touri...
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48788 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The purpose of this paper is to review the barriers to sustainable tourism development faced by rural and developing regions and to explore the notion of tourism and its potential contribution to community well-being, with a focus on Flora’s...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo & Anna Blackman
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VII
Branding Sustainability: Taking 'The Natural Step' in ...
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66969 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Translation of the concept of sustainability into practice is fraught with problems. While policy advances in all sectors of the economy have made steps in the right direction the lack of clarity in defining what is meant by 'sustainability...
Author: Alison Gill & Peter Williams
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XVII
Product innovation in route-based tourism: Interactive...
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68785 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Route-based tourism on walking, hiking and cycling routes is experiencing resurgence throughout the world (Collins-Kreiner, 2010) and can be a driver of sustainable development, particularly for remote areas (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004;...
Author: Anna Scuttari & Isidoro De Bortoli & Harald Pechlaner & Hannes Riegler
Year: 2017
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Think Tank VIII
Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...
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71034 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag...
Author: David Foster
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Catalan hospita...
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76561 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The practices of CSR have attracted the attention of the investigators, who have prepared a great diversity of theories and the international organisms, which have done recommendations, so that the companies have added them in their strategi...
Author: Ramon Palau
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VIII
Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events:...
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104234 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a range of performances. The Wadden Sea Fest...
Author: Janne J. Liburd & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VI
Ecotourism and Environmental Education: Opportunities ...
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154794 | 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
Discussion on Extended Validity of an Alternative Fram...
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211123 | 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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