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Author : Claudia Jurowski
School/Work Place : Northern Arizona University, USA
Contact : claudia.jurowski@nau.edu
Year : 2008

The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green building design, waste reduction, water saving practices and other topics related to social responsibility (International Tourism Partnership, 2007). CEO’s of major corporations have identified sustainable management practices as critical to the success of their business (examiner.com, 2008). Top management focus on sustainability may be partially driven by consumer demand. A recent survey of the members of Travelocity revealed that 80% of the respondents were willing to spend more on eco-friendly destinations or businesses (Reuters, 2008).

Managers anxious to meet consumer expectations are actively seeking knowledge on how to green their business (The term green is being used here to incorporate all aspects of sustainability and corporate social responsibility). They want to know what actions they can take. There is a plethora of information available. However, most non corporate properties do not have the resources to research and identify actions they can take. Managers lack a tool they can use to help them readily assess their position and select strategies to improve their performance. The purpose of this research is to synthesize the many resources available for tourism related businesses and develop a list of practical actions businesses can take to manage more sustainably.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
314 Think Tank XV Why Africans do not visit their national parks: A case... file 2636 Jul 27, 2015

Present-day Western approaches relating to nature and natural resources management assume that humans are independent from the natural world (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). Protected areas such as Yellowstone National Park were created with ...

Author: Lesego S. Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane 

Year: 2015 

313 Think Tank VII Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism file 2672 Oct 13, 2013

The antecedents of the modern outfitter are numerous and varied, reaching far back into mythology, allegoric literature, history, and geographic exploration. Throughout history, guides have played two distinct roles, the pathfinder and the m...

Author: Norma Nickerson 

Year: 2007 

312 Think Tank IX Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t... file 2692 Oct 13, 2013

For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200...

Author: Caroline Scarles 

Year: 2009 

311 Think Tank IV A Theoretical Perspective of Triple Bottom Line Report... file 2706 Oct 13, 2013

Triple Bottom Line is defined and explained within the context of a broad philosophical approach to business and a more narrow perspective of reporting performance. The impact of the broader notion of sustainable development, with its macro ...

Author: Jeffrey Faux 

Year: 2004 

310 Think Tank IX Recreation Specialisation and Destination Image: A cas... file 2731 Oct 13, 2013

Papua New Guinea (PNG) should be to Australia what Costa Rica and Belize are to the USA – a proximate and successful tourist destination that attracts sustainable numbers of tourists drawn to the extraordinary diversity of endemic wildlife,...

Author: Kevin Lyons, Kevin Markwell & Patricia Johnson 

Year: 2009 

309 Think Tank VII Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an... file 2760 Oct 13, 2013

Ethical questions related to globalization, human rights, unfair labor practices and trans-boundary exchanges of capital and work force create ever more complex challenges for the tourism sustainability agenda. In recent years, the tourism i...

Author: Camelia Tepelus 

Year: 2007 

308 Think Tank XVII Transit Tours for Airport Passengers – Issues and Chal... file 2766 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 

307 Think Tank IX Values: Dollars, trees or feelings? file 2857 Oct 13, 2013

The importance of values to tourism is but one aspect of the importance of values in human interactions with the natural environment and even more broadly to the human condition. However, attempts to understand the impact of values on behav...

Author: Denise Dillon 

Year: 2009 

306 Think Tank XIV Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t... file 2911 Jun 26, 2014

Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...

Author: Patricia C. Johnson 

Year: 2014 

305 Think Tank XIV Exploring Youth Perspectives on Quality of Life and To... file 2931 Jun 26, 2014

The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) is implicit in conceptualisations of tourism, especially those used to develop and guide tourism policy and planning. At the individual level it is assumed that travel offers a number of different ways to...

Author: Anna Blackman, Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann & Laurie Murphy 

Year: 2014 

304 Think Tank XI Use of Cases in an Ethical Teaching Resource for Touri... file 2933 Oct 14, 2013

Ethical problems are an integral part of all professions and academic disciplines (Clarkeburn, 2002). However, it is recognised that the increasing application of technology by students in research is not always matched by consideration of ...

Author: Carl Cater 

Year: 2011 

303 Think Tank V An Economic Explanation of the Net Benefits of Tourism... file 2946 Oct 13, 2013

International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism...

Author: Mondher Sahli & Jean-Jacques Nowak 

Year: 2005 

302 Think Tank VII The Uptake of Innovation in Tourism Organisations: Bar... file 3040 Oct 13, 2013

Innovation is fundamental to any industry in its quest to realising its potential. The tourism industry is no different in this pursuit of excellence and innovation but, unlike many other industries, it is largely comprised of small busines...

Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery 

Year: 2007 

» Think Tank VIII A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind... file 3050 Oct 13, 2013

The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green b...

Author: Claudia Jurowski 

Year: 2008 

300 Think Tank XII Tourist Cards - Experiences with Soft Mobility in Germ... file 3077 Nov 06, 2013

An increasing number of destinations face the negative sides of tourism transport. Especially, the motorized (individual) traffic can cause ecological problems due to a risen traffic volume, noise and air pollution or its negative effects on...

Author: Dorothea Dürkop & Sven Gross 

Year: 2012 

299 Think Tank XV The role of souvenir vendors in the cultural sustainab... file 3096 Jul 27, 2015

The research investigated the role of souvenir vendors in sustaining the social-cultural authenticity of Chichen Itza’s host community, a Mexican UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) (UNESCO, 2015a). The case study evaluated the Maya-descent ven...

Author: Ady Milman 

Year: 2015 

298 Think Tank XV Can we eat it? Exploring the cultural challenges in ma... file 3097 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 

297 Think Tank VIII Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism ... file 3104 Oct 13, 2013

‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the sustainability of their offer. One can henc...

Author: Maud Tixier 

Year: 2008 

296 Think Tank VIII Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H... file 3120 Oct 13, 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an anal...

Author: Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox 

Year: 2008 

295 Think Tank V Communicating with Visitors During and After a Natural... file 3187 Oct 13, 2013

Tourism is often a significant component of a region or country’s economic, social, cultural and environmental well-being and a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tsunami, landslide, flood or bushfire may cause a range of impacts on the d...

Author: E. Kate Armstrong 

Year: 2005 

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