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Think Tank X
Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...
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8237 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci...
Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand
Year: 2010
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313 |
Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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8207 | 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
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312 |
Think Tank V
Political Instability and its Effects on Tourism
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8161 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism today is second only to oil as the world’s leading export commodity, accounting for global earnings of more than $300 billion, or nearly 25 per cent of total world GNP (Poirier 2000, p30, cited in Dieke, 2000). Over the last two deca...
Author: Sarah JR Ryu
Year: 2005
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311 |
Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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8085 | 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
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310 |
OPA award
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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8085 | 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
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309 |
Think Tank VI
Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role...
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8077 | 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
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308 |
Think Tank XII
Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ...
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7915 | Nov 06, 2013 |
It is nearing the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) (United Nations, 2011), an awareness raising campaign which “seeks to mobilize the educational resources of the world to help create a mo...
Author: Erica Wilson, Tania von der Heidt, Geoffrey Lamberton & Dayle Morrison
Year: 2012
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307 |
Think Tank V
Resident Segments Using SUS-TAS
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7858 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recognizing that tools developed solely to measure perceptions of positive/negative impacts of tourism within the traditional conceptual works are insufficient, recently Choi and Sirakaya (2005) developed and tested both an innovative framew...
Author: Ercan Sirakayae, Linda J. Ingram & Hwan Suk Chris Choi
Year: 2005
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306 |
Think Tank VII
The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...
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7820 | 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
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305 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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7788 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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304 |
Think Tank IX
Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...
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7736 | Oct 13, 2013 |
What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,...
Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth
Year: 2009
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303 |
Think Tank XV
Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...
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7660 | 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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302 |
Think Tank IX
The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...
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7641 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ...
Author: Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2009
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301 |
Think Tank VIII
Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...
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7604 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ...
Author: Larry Dwyer
Year: 2008
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300 |
Think Tank X
New Media for Climate Change Communication and Collabo...
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7597 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The Climate Change Collaboratory1 aims to strengthen the relations between Austrian scientists, policy makers, educators, environmental NGOs, news media and corporations - stakeholders who recognize the need for adaptation and mitigation, b...
Author: Arno Scharl
Year: 2010
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299 |
Think Tank XII
Employee Work Attitudes, Mobility and Promotional Oppo...
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7588 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The issue of employee mobility is brought into sharp focus in times of economic and social uncertainty. Previous studies into the causes of employee mobility have investigated, among other determinants, the link between the promotional oppor...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Michael Stewart
Year: 2012
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298 |
Think Tank VIII
Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...
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7584 | 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
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297 |
Think Tank X
Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network
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7404 | Oct 14, 2013 |
How the informal sectors create and share innovation in gaining competition is very important in tourism development. Commonly, informal sectors are embedded in their routines and lack of innovation capacities. Based on the case of pedicab ...
Author: Maya Damayanti
Year: 2010
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296 |
Think Tank XV
A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...
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7396 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins...
Author: Amy Savener
Year: 2015
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295 |
Think Tank X
Implementing Networks of the New Zealand Tourism Strat...
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7388 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The areas of tourism planning and strategy are frequently at the focus of academic enquiry; however, the implementation of the planning results is not. The small number of existing studies suggests that many difficulties associated with pla...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht
Year: 2010
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