374 |
Think Tank X
Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop...
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9151 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in...
Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter
Year: 2010
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373 |
Think Tank VII
The Community of Communicators and the Communication o...
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8992 | 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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372 |
Think Tank VIII
Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...
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8810 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ...
Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu
Year: 2008
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371 |
OPA award
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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8718 | 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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370 |
Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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8556 | 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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369 |
Think Tank VIII
A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...
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8384 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the last years, which led to an increasing amount of research that has analysed both the economic and social impacts of sport events. Whereas a substantial amount of ex post assessment fr...
Author: Nico Schulenkorf
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Runner Up
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368 |
OPA award
Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...
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8361 | 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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367 |
Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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8289 | 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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366 |
Think Tank X
The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism...
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8276 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ...
Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll
Year: 2010
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365 |
Think Tank IV
Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust...
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8239 | 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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364 |
OPA award
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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7879 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...
Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee
Year: 2013
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363 |
Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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7841 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st...
Author: Marina Novelli
Year: 2009
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362 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge...
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7817 | 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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361 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Interven...
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7798 | 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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360 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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7729 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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359 |
Think Tank XI
Education as a Visitor Management Technique in Remote ...
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7678 | 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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358 |
Think Tank IX
Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...
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7628 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper explores the concept of quality of life (QOL) as perceived by residents in tourism destinations and examines differences in perceptions of QOL among culturally different destinations. The perceived QOL of local community is an imp...
Author: Yvette Reisinger & Kwang-Soo Park
Year: 2009
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357 |
Think Tank XII
Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...
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7490 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...
Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller
Year: 2012
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356 |
Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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7432 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ...
Author: Miha Bratec
Year: 2008
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355 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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7423 | Dec 19, 2013 |
This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...
Author: Kitsada Tungchawal
Year: 2008
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