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Author : Valentina Dinica
School/Work Place : Victoria Univesity of Wellington, New Zealand
Contact : valentina.dinica@vuw.ac.nz
Year : 2016

The ability of businesses to influence the sustainability of tourism development is generally examined from two standpoints: the regulatory frameworks requiring particular actions with respect to how business is carried out, or to clients; and the measures/policy instruments companies implement voluntarily. This paper draws attention to a third (indirect but important) way in which businesses’ influence on tourism sustainability can be examined: their opportunities for engagement as stakeholders in policy processes. In some countries such opportunities are available voluntarily, in others they may be statutory/legally-based, or both. Besides, such opportunities may be available in one or more policy domains: tourism and recreation policies, biodiversity conservation, climate change, broader environmental policies, and so on. In such contexts, tourism businesses operate in policy arenas of different sizes and structures, as other stakeholder types and citizens are also often present. In these arenas, the balance of power across participants will be influenced by the participatory rights available to each actor through legislation, and how actors decide to respond and mobilize themselves, to exert those rights. Tourism businesses are a heterogeneous group, and often prioritize sustainability differently. Besides, public authorities may use loopholes and shortcuts available in the legal framework, to further influence the balance of power among participating actors.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
314 Think Tank IX Malay Small Family Business Values file 10318 Dec 19, 2013

In Malaysia approximately 90% of the businesses are categorized as small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The majority of these small businesses are family owned and make a significant contribution to Malaysian Gross Domestic Product. The prev...

Author: Askiah Jamaluddin & Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2009 

313 Think Tank X The Importance of Networks for Innovation in Sustainab... file 10249 Oct 13, 2013

This paper highlights the importance of new and established networks that underpin the innovation processes in sustainable tourism. It will draw on published literature as well as case studies to describe the various types of networks that ...

Author: Jack Carlsen, Janne J. Liburd & Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2010 

312 Think Tank IX How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ... file 10236 Oct 13, 2013

Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ...

Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2009 

311 Think Tank IX Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera... file 10219 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 

310 Think Tank VII Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability... file 10140 Oct 13, 2013

With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T...

Author: Daniel Fesenmaier 

Year: 2007 

309 Think Tank IX Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a... file 10072 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 

308 Think Tank XII Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom... file 10028 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 

307 Think Tank XIV A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism... file 9907 Jun 26, 2014

In this study, I take up the task to work towards a theoretical and methodological framework that allows using sustainability as a threshold concept for critically evaluating the assumptions embedded in both tourism management theory and pra...

Author: José-Carlos García-Rosell 

Year: 2014 

306 Think Tank XII Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par... file 9882 Nov 06, 2013

Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...

Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal 

Year: 2012 

305 Think Tank V Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi... file 9859 Oct 13, 2013

This paper details the development, delivery and outcomes of a Masters course in Tourism Development that was delivered by the Royal University of Phnom Penh, with the assistance and support of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and t...

Author: Ravi Ravinder 

Year: 2005 

304 Think Tank XI Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun... file 9849 Oct 14, 2013

Sustainability has long been a theme in the tourism research and planning literature and is a growing concern in the wider area of business and corporate management. Consequent to these trends in practice and research there has been a growt...

Author: Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo & Laurie Murphy 

Year: 2011 

303 Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal... file 9803 Oct 13, 2013

Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has...

Author: Pierre Benckendorff 

Year: 2009 

302 Think Tank VI Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role... file 9710 Oct 13, 2013

The integration of sustainability within the domain of tourism has recently made considerable progress. For instance, in the UK and the Netherlands, the most important federations of tour operators, the FTO and the ANVR, have introduced obli...

Author: Menno Houtstra 

Year: 2006 

301 Think Tank VII The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel... file 9696 Oct 13, 2013

The internationally acclaimed Blackstone Valley Tourism Council continues to create a sustainable visitor destination using whole place-making techniques. Under its auspices, the Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development Laboratory share...

Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter & Lilly Kayamba 

Year: 2007 

300 Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism... file 9560 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 

299 OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 9560 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

298 Think Tank VIII Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o... file 9502 Oct 13, 2013

Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated...

Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar 

Year: 2008 

297 OPA award Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ... file 9451 Oct 13, 2013

This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...

Author: Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2005 

OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

296 Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M... file 9420 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 

295 Think Tank IV Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,... file 9369 Dec 01, 2013

Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...

Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac 

Year: 2004 

OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

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