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Think Tank XVI
The influence of environmental attitudes and concerns ...
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917 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This study investigates environmental attitudes and concerns of Germans tourists towards climate change. Furthermore it analyses if there are attempts to neutralise air travel emissions by means of voluntary carbon-offsetting. Past research...
Author: Isabell Wulfsberg, Dirk Reiser, Volker Rundshagen & Nicolai Scherle
Year: 2016
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313 |
Think Tank XIX
Innovation Generator. Ideas for Sustainable Tourism Pr...
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926 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: Innovation generator, Sustainable tourism, Alps, projects, Switzerland Page: 208-213 Innovation Generator.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Norma...
Author: Fabian Weber
Year: 2019
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312 |
Think Tank XVIII
Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...
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981 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Keywords: natural resource management, community participation, stakeholder engagement, co-creation, sustainable tourism, Networks of Reserves.
Author: Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa, Sandra Notaro, Nicola Zeni & Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi
Year: 2018
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311 |
Think Tank XVII
Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ...
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1019 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper presents research commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s African Natural Resources Center (ANRC), that aimed to to identify and summarise existing monitoring data being gathered by national tourism authorities and i...
Author: Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
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310 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...
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1028 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Firms are nowadays facing growing pressure from governments and environmental institutions to reduce their ecological footprint. While a growing number of empirical studies have examined the impact of green management policies on firms’ fina...
Author: Christelle Cortese & Mondher Sahli
Year: 2015
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309 |
Think Tank XVI
Sustainable Tourism Managment on Small Island Destinat...
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1058 | 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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308 |
Think Tank XV
A modified value chainanalysisoftourism development in...
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1075 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourism development in a relatively unknown country is faced with various challenges. The difficulty is not only choosing an appropriate tourism development strategy but also managing it in a complex sociocultural, economic and political env...
Author: Sonja Frommenwiler & Péter Varga
Year: 2015
OPA: Runner Up Outstanding Paper Award
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307 |
Think Tank XVII
E-Mobility as an Innovation for a Sustainable Destinat...
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1081 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The project "E-Destination” funded by Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) aims to show whether and in what form electro-mobility can play a bigger role regarding tourism in the rural region of Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee), Baden-...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2017
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306 |
Think Tank XVII
Providing sustainable innovations in the hospitality i...
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1188 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Sustainability and eco-friendliness is gaining considerable attention within the hotel industry (Chen, Sloan & Legrand, 2009; Kim & Han, 2010). There has been a growing awareness of the environmental and social influence of hotel ope...
Author: Julia Zimmermann & Matthias Straub
Year: 2017
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305 |
Think Tank XVII
A meta-analysis of the tourism and economic growth nexus
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1214 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The existing literature is fraught with empirical studies delineating the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth. However, the results are at best inconclusive. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to investigate the unde...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Robin Nunkoo & Raja Vinesh Sannassee & Paul Georges Warren Moraghen & Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur
Year: 2017
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304 |
Think Tank XV
The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat...
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1216 | 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
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303 |
Think Tank XVIII
Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi...
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1246 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management
Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub
Year: 2018
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302 |
Think Tank XV
Conserving biodiversity as tourism (including wildlife...
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1260 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Governments throughout Australia and elsewhere recognise that tourism is an important sector of the economy, and are encouraging its growth in a variety of ways, some more environmentally sound than others. This papers presents not the resul...
Author: Ronda J Green
Year: 2015
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301 |
Think Tank X
How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte...
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1280 | 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
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300 |
Think Tank V
Response Strategies to Climate Change Impacts
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1283 | 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
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299 |
Think Tank XVII
The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with th...
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1312 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The emergence of information technology has a profound impact on tourism industry. Today, visitors are more inclined to have searched the Internet to gain more pre-tour knowledge for the destinations than before. The advances of the various ...
Author: Daisy Suk-fong FUNG
Year: 2017
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298 |
Think Tank VIII
Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of...
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1325 | 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
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297 |
Think Tank XV
Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...
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1367 | Jul 27, 2015 |
The holiday property market has seen a genuine boom in the last years with second homes being an integral part of today’s tourism and an important pillar in the accommodation sector. Today second homes are seen as an enabler for destination ...
Author: Anita Zehrer
Year: 2015
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296 |
Think Tank XV
Can we eat it? Exploring the cultural challenges in ma...
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1435 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Can we eat it? How did you stop the waves? Is there water in there? Where is the switch to turn it off? Will it eat me? These are just some of the many questions asked by visitors to uShaka Sea World in Durban, South Africa. While South Afri...
Author: Judy Mann & Roy Ballantyne & Jan Packer
Year: 2015
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295 |
Think Tank XVI
Tourists vs Tour operators Preferences for CSR Policie...
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1439 | 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
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