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Author : Sema Alimoğlu Özkan & Ali Şükrü Çetinkaya
School/Work Place : Selcuk University, Turkey
Contact : alisukru@outlook.com
Year : 2016
Social Enterprise is known as a non-profit action aiming social benefits. Social entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is social actions which create permanent and sustainable values by offering innovative perspectives to find solutions forsocial problems. The actors, who take part in troubleshooting with an innovative perspective by realizing the breakdowns of the environment in which they live, and who become pioneers of change and transformation are social entrepreneurs. Social enterprises are set at the junction point of voluntary activity and commercial activity. They are the textures which are non-profit for creating social values; however, they use the resulting profit for the sustainability of their enterprises.

List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
354 Think Tank XVI The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility: An ove... file 3984 Jul 02, 2016

In the tourism industry, whilst some companies have taken active steps towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), others are yet to adopt a responsible approaching to business. According to Betz (2010), CSR is a relatively new concept i...

Author: Susanne Reimann & Sandro Carnicelli 

Year: 2016 

353 Think Tank V Response Strategies to Climate Change Impacts file 4004 Oct 13, 2013

This study addresses the threat of climate change impacts on the sustainability of the economic benefits for, and environmental assets of, tourism destinations. It discusses the challenges for both the demand and supply side of tourism to fo...

Author: Nancy Scanlon 

Year: 2005 

352 Think Tank XVIII Advocating the utilisation of visitor book inscription... file 4048 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: Visitor books, visitor experience, visitor satisfaction, Mnemba Island, Zanzibar.

Author: Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2018 

351 Think Tank XVI Tourists vs Tour operators Preferences for CSR Policie... file 4111 Jul 02, 2016

There is an increasing concern for environmental and social issues among international travelers. As a consequence, many tourist corporations have been exploring the implementation of Social Responsibility (SR) policies as a tool to gain co...

Author: Jorge E. Araña, Gianluca Goffi & Carmelo J. León 

Year: 2016 

350 Think Tank XVIII Socially Inclusive Holidays with Sighted Guiding: Moti... file 4114 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: inclusive tourism, visual impairment, sighted guiding, motivation

Author: Kristof Tomej 

Year: 2018 

349 Think Tank XVI Navigating Evolving Global Trends in Financial Crime: ... file 4205 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Verity Anne Greenwood 

Year: 2016 

» Think Tank XVI SWOT Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship in Enterprises file 4223 Jul 02, 2016

Social Enterprise is known as a non-profit action aiming social benefits. Social entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is social actions which create permanent and sustainable values by offering innovative perspectives to find solutions fors...

Author: Sema Alimoğlu Özkan & Ali Şükrü Çetinkaya 

Year: 2016 

347 Think Tank XVIII The role of tourism associations in supporting sustain... file 4239 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: tourism association, inclusive development, tourism marketing

Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2018 

346 Think Tank X How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte... file 4296 Oct 13, 2013

Meaning is one of the most elusive and ubiquitous properties of tourism spaces. This paper analyses the ambiguity of meaning in the materiality of tourism sustainability. Sustainable development and its three interrelated principles of holi...

Author: Neil M. Walsh 

Year: 2010 

345 Think Tank XVII Transit Tours for Airport Passengers – Issues and Chal... file 4313 Aug 17, 2017

Since the advent of liberalisation of the aviation industry in the late 1970s, many countries have adopted the liberal policy in air transport and entered bilateral air service agreements, often referred to as “open skies agreements” (OSAs),...

Author: Priscilla Chau Min Poon 

Year: 2017 

344 Think Tank XV Rural renewal or requiem? Establishing new creative ve... file 4554 Jul 27, 2015

During the past decades, concern for rural poverty and underdevelopment of the rural communities of Namibia has been central to government development efforts. This has further given rise to several rural development programmes. While, some ...

Author: Erling Kavita 

Year: 2015 

343 Think Tank XII Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations file 4732 Nov 06, 2013

In the arena of resort development, there is a long history of destinations emulating (and seeking to surpass) one another in efforts to maintain competitiveness. In recent years, the use of “best case” examples are common tools employed to ...

Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams 

Year: 2012 

342 Think Tank XIX Changes in volunteerism perception: Results from an In... file 4754 Oct 23, 2019

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Author: Rachelle Wilson, Pavlina Latkova, Aiko Yoshino and Emilyn Sheffield 

Year: 2019 

341 Think Tank XVIII Sustainable tourism products and services: development... file 4807 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: sustainable urban tourism, urban regeneration, precincts, Johannesburg Maboneng

Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels & Emma J Pearse 

Year: 2018 

340 Think Tank VIII Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of... file 4832 Oct 13, 2013

Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att...

Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2008 

339 Think Tank XV The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat... file 4834 Jul 27, 2015

Over the last decades, social enterprises have increasingly gained importance in the travel and tourism industry and they are revolutionizing the way business is done. Instead of maximizing profits for external shareholders, a social enterpr...

Author: Sebastian Ferrari & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2015 

338 Think Tank XVI The Act of Giving – Understanding CSR in Myanmar in a ... file 4946 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Nicole Häusler & Kathrin Dischereit 

Year: 2016 

337 Think Tank X Implementing Destination Governance file 4987 Oct 14, 2013

In the tourism management literature, several authors (Nordin, Beritelli et al, Pechlaner) have promoted the concept of destination governance, to define a coalition of disparate parties with common interests, as a productive approach to to...

Author: Loredana Padurean 

Year: 2010 

336 Think Tank XV Inclusive tourism business models: A comparative analy... file 5022 Jul 27, 2015

Mitchell and Ashley state that the “bulk of pro-poor tourism literature has not aimed at measuring impact… [and] is indeed recognized as a weakness in the pro-poor tourism literature by its proponents” (2010:5). The research paper aims to qu...

Author: Andrew Rylance 

Year: 2015 

335 Think Tank IX Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t... file 5123 Oct 13, 2013

Furthermore, social identity theory suggests that people are attracted to others who are familiar to themselves because their similarity reinforces their self-image (Tajfel, 1982), and that people from collectivist culture tend to favour in-...

Author: Rui Jin Hoare, Ken Butcher & Danny O'Brien 

Year: 2009 

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