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Think Tank X
New Media for Climate Change Communication and Collabo...
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8394 | 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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273 |
Think Tank XV
Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...
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8393 | 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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272 |
Think Tank IV
Attitudes towards Environmental Responsibility among S...
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8349 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The first step in creating a more environmentally sound hotel industry should be a performance analysis of the hotel sector from an environmental perspective. An assessment measuring the level of environmental awareness among hoteliers and t...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Vlasta Zanki-Alujevic & Ivo Martinac
Year: 2004
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271 |
Think Tank XIV
Development of a Certification System for Sustainable ...
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8285 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Tourism destinations are complex entities that can be defined as geographical areas of different sizes that are being visited by tourists. Most definitions then differentiate between the perspectives of those living in and managing a destina...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
Year: 2014
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270 |
Think Tank XII
Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ...
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8239 | 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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269 |
Think Tank XIV
The Development of a National Tourism Research Agenda ...
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8228 | Jun 26, 2014 |
A national research agenda identifies the research priorities that need to be addressed to “inform future policy and service delivery” by government and “for use by academics and practitioners to stimulate research, partnerships and collabor...
Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2014
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268 |
Think Tank XIII
Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Capital in...
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8195 | Nov 06, 2013 |
There is substantial literature on the impacts of tourism on culture, both positive and negative, however, there are relatively few articles that explore the relationship between cultural capital and sustainable tourism. This paper will repo...
Author: Laurie Murphy & Andrea Schurmann
Year: 2013
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267 |
Think Tank VIII
Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in T...
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8176 | Oct 13, 2013 |
During the last two decades, there has been increased focus on topics related to various aspects of sustainable tourism. Believing that sustainable tourism can be a serious alternative that can remedy some of the negative impacts associated ...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Muzzo S. Uysal & Turgut Var
Year: 2008
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266 |
Think Tank V
Tourism in Small Communities: Risks and Benefits
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8161 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the findings from a Sustainable Tourism Co-operative Research Centre study into the risks associated with the social impacts of tourism on a small community in the Australian state of Tasmania. This state is known for its...
Author: Leo Jago, Margaret Deery & Liz Fredline
Year: 2005
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265 |
Think Tank XIII
The Paradox of poverty amidst the plenty of nature: co...
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8151 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Rural communities in South Africa have not been active stakeholders in tourism development. Community awareness and involvement in the preservation of natural and cultural heritage through sustainable tourism development in selected areas ad...
Author: Felicité A. Fairer-Wessels
Year: 2013
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264 |
Think Tank X
Implementing Networks of the New Zealand Tourism Strat...
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8111 | Oct 13, 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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263 |
Think Tank VI
Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...
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8100 | 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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262 |
Think Tank XIII
Striving for Environmental Sustainability through Soci...
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8060 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The question how native societies cope with the increasing pressure of global values, such as sustainability, westernization and democratic institutions has been asked in the last decades (Smith, 1989; Honey, 1999; Nash, 2001; Honey, 2008). ...
Author: Peter Varga
Year: 2013
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261 |
Think Tank VII
Rural Adventure Tourism and Social Entrepreneurship
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8046 | 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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260 |
Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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8028 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields o...
Author: Maeve Morrissey, Kevin Griffin & Sheila Flanagan
Year: 2010
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259 |
Think Tank XIV
Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...
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8021 | Jun 26, 2014 |
For the tourism sector the government aims to “Grow the number of new business opportunities on public conservation land in order to deliver increased economic prosperity and conservation gain” (New Zealand Government, 2012: 23). In relation...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2014
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258 |
Think Tank IX
Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...
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8009 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper proposes a simple model that depicts the relationship between community and extra-community stakeholders that will enable the effective development of sustainable tourism. “Sustainable tourism” in this paper is defined as tourism ...
Author: Asami Shikida, Mami Yoda, Akiko Kino & Masayuki Morishige
Year: 2009
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257 |
Think Tank XII
Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract...
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7930 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through...
Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters
Year: 2012
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256 |
Think Tank XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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7927 | Nov 06, 2013 |
After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...
Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré
Year: 2012
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255 |
Think Tank XIV
The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...
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7902 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Social tourism refers to initiatives that aim to include groups into tourism that would otherwise be excluded from it. The earliest definition of social tourism by Hunzicker (1951) described social tourism as ‘‘the relationships and phenomen...
Author: Lynn Minnaert
Year: 2014
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