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Think Tank XII
Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun...
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7956 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ...
Author: Julia Albrecht
Year: 2012
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20 |
Think Tank IX
Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...
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8094 | Oct 13, 2013 |
“Courchevel is first and foremost one among the founding elements of the huge touristic complex of les Trois Vallées in France. Linked to the neighbouring Allues and Belleville valleys by a 3,000 acres network area of regularly packed and ma...
Author: Daniel Tixier
Year: 2009
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19 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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8118 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I...
Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul
Year: 2009
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18 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Networks
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8156 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ...
Author: Seldjan Timur
Year: 2010
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17 |
Think Tank V
Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management
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8191 | Dec 14, 2013 |
As a contribution to BEST Education Network ThinkTank V, Managing Riskand Crisis for Sustainable Tourism, the following paper has been prepared in two parts. The first part of the paper focuses on the idea that an appropriate model can be de...
Author: Scott K. Cunliffe
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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16 |
Think Tank VIII
Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o...
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8742 | 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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15 |
Think Tank XIV
Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe...
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8996 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The primary rationale for embedding values-based learning in tourism higher education is to engage students’ learning-to-learn and learning-to-be, rather than simply learning about a topic, such as tourism management or sustainability (Libur...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Janne J. Liburd & Jaume Guia
Year: 2014
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14 |
Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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9161 | 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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13 |
OPA award
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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9185 | 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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12 |
Think Tank VII
The Community of Communicators and the Communication o...
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10565 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In spite of the trend towards business as a key element in society and tourism, governments still play an important role in the sustainable development debate. Like any social institution, governments and related organizations do not always ...
Author: Keith Henning
Year: 2007
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11 |
Think Tank XVIII
Visitor management in protected areas
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10633 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand
Author: Julia Nina Albrecht
Year: 2018
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10 |
Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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10811 | Nov 06, 2013 |
“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov
Year: 2012
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9 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge...
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11018 | Jul 07, 2014 |
David's presentation outlines the major market failures in tourism production and consumption and questions the changing role of (public sector) governments in market regulation and ‘economic’ development. The presentation focuses specifical...
Author: David G. Simmons
Year: 2014
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8 |
Think Tank XIV
Assessing Samui Island's Sustainable Tourism Policies ...
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11554 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Since 2009, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) promoted sustainable tourism practices through its – 7 Greens Concept, which is similar to the main global trends towards sustainable tourism. The 7 Greens Concept includes Green Heart, Gre...
Author: Attama Nilnoppakun, Krissada Pornprapa, Nattapong Boonlue & Kreagrit Ampawat
Year: 2014
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7 |
Think Tank V
Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters
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12962 | 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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6 |
Think Tank IV
Impediments to Sustainable Service Quality in Luxury H...
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15914 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In order for tourism to be sustainable in the long term, there must be continued viability of tourism related entities (Tesone 2004), that is business operations must be sustainable. Hotels are major tourism entities and play an important ro...
Author: Rayka Presbury
Year: 2004
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5 |
Think Tank XI
Education as a Visitor Management Technique in Remote ...
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16018 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Remote protected areas are often vulnerable to impacts by visitors. This is generally due to the dual implications of remoteness: a) the area's ecosystems remaining largely undisturbed by human activity (Carey, Dudley and Stolton, 2000) and...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2011
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4 |
Think Tank IX
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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34129 | 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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3 |
Think Tank XII
Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...
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35447 | 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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2 |
Think Tank XII
The Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds in 2010 and 2011 on ...
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40825 | 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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