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Author : Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
School/Work Place : University of Surrey, UK (Leo Jago), University of Canberra, Australia (Marg Deery)
Contact : leo.jago@tbei.biz
Year : 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 collaboration” to enhance the performance of the sector (Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigeneous Affairs 2011, 3). Given that research funds are in very short supply for most sectors, a national research agenda can help prioritise the areas most in need of research and help coordinate the efforts and investments of diverse stakeholders to maximize the net outcomes of research. For national research agendas to be of value, there should be wide ‘ownership’ of the agenda so that it is seen to be reflective of the needs of the majority of stakeholders.

This paper examines the development of a national tourism research agenda to underpin policy and planning and the ways in which the skills of industry, government and academe are used. In particular, it examines the barriers and facilitators to harnessing the skills and knowledge of industry, government and academe.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
274 Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio... file 3886 Oct 13, 2013

Almost all the academic literature on tourism impacts has focussed on the consequences of tourism for the destination and its residents. Very little attention has been paid to the impacts of tourism on tourists. Virtually all cost-benefit an...

Author: Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2008 

273 Think Tank XIII The Politics of Community-Based Tourism Planning in th... file 3914 Nov 06, 2013

The management of protected areas has to deal with a wide range of challenges, amongst these, a growing array of social, political and economic expectations. In this regard, protected areas are increasingly expected to particularly serve as ...

Author: Anna Hübner & Truong Si Hong Chau 

Year: 2013 

272 Think Tank VIII Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Chang... file 3935 Oct 13, 2013

This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change: the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their suggestions concerning possible actions that can be tak...

Author: Xavier Matteucci & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2008 

271 OPA award Active community participation in nature conservation ... file 3937 Jul 27, 2015

This paper provides a conceptual framework of community- based nature conservation and tourism (CBC-T). The following themes are guiding discussions in this study, i.e.: land rights of local communities in and around protected areas; communi...

Author: Jones Muzirambi & Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2015 

OPA: 2015 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

270 Think Tank VIII Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: Th... file 3978 Oct 13, 2013

As an international tourism destination, Turkey serves mostly European tourist markets due to her closeness to European markets. Turkey and Europe has a long shared history of relationships. However, Turkey and Turkish people have a rather b...

Author: Yasin Boylu, Asli D. A. Tasci & William C. Gartner 

Year: 2008 

269 Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o... file 3988 Oct 13, 2013

Global economic and political change has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration flows resulting in unprecedented transformation in the form and condition of impacted communities (Woods, 2006). This increase in human migration to ar...

Author: Alison M. Gill 

Year: 2008 

268 Think Tank XI Sustainable Tourism Labels: A Suitable Tool for Consum... file 3996 Oct 14, 2013

In an attempt to encourage businesses making an effort to reduce the negative impacts of tourism, and to maximise the positive outcomes of this activity an extensive number of sustainable tourism labels were developed worldwide. It has been...

Author: Sofia Reino 

Year: 2011 

267 Think Tank XII Unsustainable Travel Development: The Case of Aviation... file 4022 Nov 06, 2013

Considering the apparent importance of low-cost aviation, and its dramatic development, there is remarkably little research done about its consequences on European mobility. A few studies have mapped the development of networks (cf. Dobruszk...

Author: Jan Henrik Nilsson 

Year: 2012 

266 Think Tank XV A modified value chainanalysisoftourism development in... file 4038 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 

265 Think Tank XIV Influence of Assets and Capital Structure on the Perfo... file 4047 Jun 26, 2014

The global economic and financial crisis could be seen as old news according to the UNWTO’s data on international tourist arrivals. Europe recorded a solid 5% growth in 2013, and Mediterranean countries performed even better with 6% growth i...

Author: Kir Kuščer & Domen Trobec 

Year: 2014 

264 Think Tank IV Evaluating Environmental Initiatives of German Hotels file 4110 Oct 13, 2013

Following a vigorous environmental protection movement trigging in Germany over thirty years ago, the German hotel industry is gradually moving in line with other sections of its society. This study attempts to present a snapshot of the asse...

Author: Joseph S. Chen, Willy Legrand, Philip Sloan & Josephine Zho 

Year: 2004 

263 Think Tank IV Environmental Attitudes of Tourism Activity Providers ... file 4116 Oct 13, 2013

This paper looks at the issue of environmental awareness and the related topic of 'ecolabels' in a New Zealand context, adopting a supplier's perspective to gain a greater insight into the attitudes of those managing and providing tourism pr...

Author: Christian Schott 

Year: 2004 

262 Think Tank XI An introduction of the Global Sustainable Tourism Coun... file 4120 Oct 14, 2013

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the Global Sustainable Tourism Council and Criteria, in an effort to encourage the Criteria as part of a framework for sustainable tourism education. The history of the GSTC and Criteria will...

Author: Kelly Bricker 

Year: 2011 

261 Think Tank VI Corporate Responsibility as Essential to Sustainable T... file 4123 Oct 13, 2013

For tourism development to have sustainable outcomes at the destination level, business operations must be sustainable. Sustainable development for business means adopting strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and ...

Author: Larry Dwyer, Liz Fredline, Leo Jago & Margaret Deery 

Year: 2006 

260 Think Tank XV Conserving biodiversity as tourism (including wildlife... 4131 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 

259 Think Tank XVI CSR in Medical Toursim – new markets, new responsibili... file 4166 Jul 02, 2016

Governments, hospitals, clinics and facilitators go about their business of marketing health tourism to international patients and their relatives. While they focus on making money researchers should ask questions about changes raised by th...

Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel 

Year: 2016 

258 Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation file 4167 Jul 27, 2015

Scholarship on guiding and interpretation positions formal training as a central factor in guide instruction. Guide training operates in the area that mediates between personal characteristics, attitudes and knowledge of the guides and what ...

Author: Julia N. Albrecht & Trisha Dwyer 

Year: 2015 

257 Think Tank XVII Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ... file 4192 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 

256 Think Tank XII Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 4210 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

255 Think Tank VII Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl... file 4250 Oct 13, 2013

The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...

Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2007 

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