82 |
Think Tank VIII
Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the F...
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5496 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Lifestyle has been oft cited in the literature as the main motivation for those establishing or acquiring tourism related businesses in attractive destinations. However, the term has many different dimensions and connotations, both positive...
Author: Jack Carlsen & Alison Morrison
Year: 2008
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81 |
Think Tank XII
Sustainable Tourism: Is it better to travel or not to ...
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5491 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism’s growing contribution to climate change has come to the forefront of the sustainable tourism literature as evidenced by the Journal of Sustainable Tourism’s (JOST) 2010 publication of a special issue titled “Tourism: Adapting to Cli...
Author: B. Bynum Boley
Year: 2012
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80 |
Think Tank VII
Rural Adventure Tourism and Social Entrepreneurship
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5470 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The intent of this research is to provide a comparative analysis of several innovative social entrepreneurial businesses operating within the realm of rural adventure tourism. This qualitative, case-based research explores six companies, wh...
Author: Christina Heyniger & Kristin Lamoureaux
Year: 2007
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79 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainability in a Mature Mass-Tourism Destination: T...
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5432 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Most destinations are struggling to achieve sustainability for their economies, their environments, their cultures and their tourism industries. This laudatory, idealistic and complex process involves many sectors of the industry, the commun...
Author: Pauline Sheldon, John Knox & Kem Lowry
Year: 2004
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78 |
Think Tank XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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5420 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism at a destination is dependent on the maintenance and good management of its attractive assets. In non-urban areas, the assets will primarily be geological, natural and/or cultural, frequently of a sensitive nature, liable...
Author: David Ward-Perkins & Frédéric Dimanche
Year: 2012
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77 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainability and Mass Destinations: Challenges and P...
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5413 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In year 2001, the Government of the Balearic Islands decided to establish a tourism tax, named "ecotax", as an important measure to achieve a more sustainable tourism model for the islands. This paper analyses the background of the ecotax, t...
Author: Antoni Serra Cantallops
Year: 2004
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76 |
Think Tank X
The Role of Knowledge-based Networks in Sustainable To...
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5399 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In practice, tourism organisations tend to be more serious towards their financial viability and therefore undermine long-term socio-cultural and environmental consequences. In so doing they impede their own ability and that of the destinat...
Author: Ehsan Ahmed & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2010
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75 |
Think Tank IV
Possibilities for Sustainable Tourism Management in Ac...
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5387 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainability is an inevitable concept in tourism which heavily depends on natural resources and environment with its products and services. Here prevention and controlling water, air and noise pollution, habitat degradation is more importa...
Author: Meryem Atik, Türker Altan & A. Akin Aksu
Year: 2004
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74 |
Think Tank XII
Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ...
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5288 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Bali has long been a tourist destination for Australian tourists and the Australian tourist market is an important one for Bali tourism. In the last two decades, increasingly Australian tourists have and are shifting their mobility practices...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2012
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73 |
Think Tank VI
Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...
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5247 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A problem in developing new tourism markets remains how to resource them from an existing employment base. Key questions arising are: Do current tourism enterprises have the existing skills to move into these new markets for sustainable tour...
Author: Susan Anita Briggs
Year: 2006
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72 |
OPA award
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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5225 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within the tourism industry. This paper present...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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71 |
Think Tank VII
Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...
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5225 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Methods for researching the future have grown both in variety and rigour, offering new opportunities for understanding sustainable tourism. This paper discusses the value of futures research as a tool for envisioning and planning sustainable...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2007
OPA: 2007 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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70 |
Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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5083 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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69 |
Think Tank XII
Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:...
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5024 | Nov 06, 2013 |
For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...
Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould
Year: 2012
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68 |
Think Tank XIII
Local Residents' Involvement in Rural Tourism: The Cas...
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4984 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Community involvement is regarded as a significant factor for the development of rural tourism. In Malaysia, cooperatives are used as a catalyst to achieve community development through community involvement. This paper focuses on the involv...
Author: Uma Thevi Munikrishnan, Sushila Devi Rajaratnam, Paolo Mura & Vikneswaran Nair
Year: 2013
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67 |
Think Tank XIV
Local Networks as Sustainable Policy Instruments: A Ca...
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4945 | Jun 27, 2014 |
In this case study, a communication network among local hotel managers was examined, first to assess the extent of communication among hotel managers, and second to identify influential members within the network. Communication with respect ...
Author: Karen Irene Thal & Tracy Burkett
Year: 2014
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66 |
Think Tank XIII
Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...
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4926 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran
Year: 2013
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65 |
Think Tank XI
Identifying Critical Issues in Designing Educational T...
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4908 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Education is seen as an important way to contribute to development. The World Bank finances educational projects with large amounts of money every year because it is convinced that improving education can help alleviate poverty by raising i...
Author: Kerstin Freudenthaler & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2011
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64 |
Think Tank XIV
Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw...
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4896 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...
Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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63 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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4881 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...
Author: Attama Nilnoppkun
Year: 2012
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