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Think Tank XIV
Bird-watching Routes as Collaborative Stakeholderships...
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15363 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Although there are numerous birding trails with varying levels of success, prior to this study, little research existed as to how birding trails are designed, implemented and managed. Thus, the study posed and answered the following research...
Author: Krisztian Vas
Year: 2014
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373 |
Think Tank V
Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters
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15273 | 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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372 |
Think Tank XVI
Sustainable Tourism Managment on Small Island Destinat...
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15173 | Jul 02, 2016 |
On December 11th, 2015 climate change negotiations came to a close after the COP21 – 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Across media channels and climate protests the event was referred to as “the last chance summit”, w...
Author: Bonnie Lewtas & René Schmidpeter
Year: 2016
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371 |
Think Tank XIII
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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15017 | 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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370 |
Think Tank VI
Testing Clarkson’s Typical Corporate and Stakeholder I...
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14826 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In today’s world of growing concern over the social and environmental effect of tourism, the responsibility for the future of our society is moving from simply relying on our political leaders and interest groups towards the concept that cor...
Author: Catrina Papaleo & Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
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369 |
Think Tank VII
Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris...
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14595 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Communities have a variety of interest levels in tourism overall, including sustainable tourism (WTO, 2002). While we have witnessed increased awareness and discussions about sustainability and sustainable tourism, there is often a lack of s...
Author: Cynthia Messer, Ingrid Schneider & Okechukwu Ukaga
Year: 2007
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368 |
Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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14466 | 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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367 |
Think Tank XVIII
Visitor management in protected areas
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14388 | 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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366 |
Think Tank V
Reflecting or Directing Perceptions? Fox Media’s Respo...
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14290 | 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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365 |
Think Tank V
Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...
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14104 | 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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364 |
Think Tank VII
There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...
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13693 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h...
Author: Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2007
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363 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge...
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13661 | 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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362 |
Think Tank VII
The Community of Communicators and the Communication o...
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13377 | 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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361 |
Think Tank X
Rather Together? Network Effects among Students
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13351 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Being faced with global trends that challenge the way tourism is conducted at present (Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Roman and Scott, 2009; Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Scott, Roman and C., 2008), educators worldwide have recognized the need to ad...
Author: Florian Aubke, Ivo Ponocny & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2010
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360 |
Think Tank X
Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop...
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13201 | 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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359 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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13139 | 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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358 |
Think Tank X
Drowning with Tourism? Stakeholder Perspectives from T...
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13003 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Climate change and its impacts on nations, regions and populations as well as its anthropogenic causes have become one of the prevailing issues of global society and, hence, subject to ongoing debates among e.g. the natural, political and s...
Author: Anna Huebner
Year: 2010
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357 |
Think Tank VII
Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ...
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12836 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This article reports on an ongoing project that focuses on learning and innovation as prerequisites for sustainable tourism in a transnational environment defined by the European North Sea Region. According to Buhalis (2000: 113) providing i...
Author: Janne Liburd & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2007
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356 |
Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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12822 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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355 |
Think Tank XIV
Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe...
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12771 | 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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