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Author : Kevin Mearns
School/Work Place : University of South Africa, South Africa
Contact : mearnkf@unisa.ac.za
Year : 2018

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


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
354 Think Tank XVI Tourists vs Tour operators Preferences for CSR Policie... file 4521 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 

353 Think Tank XVIII Using Delphi technique to identify experts’ opinion on... file 4557 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: Conservation Behaviour, The Great Barrier Reef, Delphi Techniques

Author: Karen Hofman 

Year: 2018 

352 Think Tank V Response Strategies to Climate Change Impacts file 4582 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 

351 Think Tank XVI Navigating Evolving Global Trends in Financial Crime: ... file 4661 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Verity Anne Greenwood 

Year: 2016 

350 Think Tank XVI SWOT Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship in Enterprises file 4673 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 

349 Think Tank XVII Transit Tours for Airport Passengers – Issues and Chal... file 4750 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 

348 Think Tank XVIII Socially Inclusive Holidays with Sighted Guiding: Moti... file 5120 Jan 07, 2019

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

Author: Kristof Tomej 

Year: 2018 

» Think Tank XVIII Advocating the utilisation of visitor book inscription... file 5213 Jan 07, 2019

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

Author: Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2018 

346 Think Tank X How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte... file 5254 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 XVI The Act of Giving – Understanding CSR in Myanmar in a ... file 5378 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Nicole Häusler & Kathrin Dischereit 

Year: 2016 

344 Think Tank XV Inclusive tourism business models: A comparative analy... file 5450 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 

343 Think Tank XVIII The role of tourism associations in supporting sustain... file 5461 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: tourism association, inclusive development, tourism marketing

Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2018 

342 Think Tank XV The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat... file 5474 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 

341 Think Tank XIX Changes in volunteerism perception: Results from an In... file 5501 Oct 23, 2019

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

Year: 2019 

340 Think Tank VIII Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of... file 5631 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 X Implementing Destination Governance file 5644 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 

338 Think Tank XV Rural renewal or requiem? Establishing new creative ve... file 5662 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 

337 Think Tank IX Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t... file 5859 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 

336 Think Tank XII Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations file 5864 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 

335 Think Tank XIX The time use rebound effect and its impact on tourist ... file 5868 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: rebound effect, time use, consumer behaviour, energy consumption, sustainability Page: 75-78 The time use rebound effect and its impact on tourist consumption in the context of sustainable tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN...

Author: Soheon Kim 

Year: 2019 

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