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No.	Subject	Views	Date
42	Think Tank IX How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...	7118	Oct 13, 2013
42	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
41	Think Tank VII The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...	7127	Oct 13, 2013
41	"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character... Author: Alan A. Lew Year: 2007
40	Think Tank X The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...	7161	Oct 13, 2013
40	The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc... Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford Year: 2010 OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
39	Think Tank V Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management	7233	Dec 14, 2013
39	As a contribution to BEST Education Network ThinkTank V, Managing Riskand Crisis for Sustainable Tourism, the following paper has been prepared in two parts. The first part of the paper focuses on the idea that an appropriate model can be de... Author: Scott K. Cunliffe Year: 2005 OPA: Keynote Speech
38	Think Tank VI The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....	7276	Oct 13, 2013
38	This paper reports on an element of an ongoing research project undertaken since 1999 in relation to the effects of film-induced tourism on a small community based in North Yorkshire, England, namely Goathland. Goathland is better known to ... Author: Sue Beeton Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Runner Up
37	OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?	7282	Nov 06, 2013
37	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
36	Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...	7456	Dec 19, 2013
36	This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti... Author: Kitsada Tungchawal Year: 2008
35	Think Tank XII Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...	7729	Nov 06, 2013
35	Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs... Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller Year: 2012
34	Think Tank IX Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...	7743	Oct 13, 2013
34	This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r... Author: Ian Chaplin Year: 2009
33	OPA award Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...	7919	Nov 06, 2013
33	Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last... Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee Year: 2013
32	Think Tank XIV Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge...	8175	Jul 07, 2014
32	David's presentation outlines the major market failures in tourism production and consumption and questions the changing role of (public sector) governments in market regulation and ‘economic’ development. The presentation focuses specifical... Author: David G. Simmons Year: 2014
31	Think Tank IV Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust...	8260	Oct 13, 2013
31	This brief paper describes a new educational model developed at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) to link theory and practice, or more specifically, coordinate learning opportunities between the classroom (Sustainable Tourism) and current pr... Author: James Holleran Year: 2004
30	Think Tank X The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism...	8309	Oct 13, 2013
30	This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ... Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll Year: 2010
29	OPA award Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...	8387	Oct 13, 2013
29	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
28	Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...	8394	Nov 06, 2013
28	“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A... Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov Year: 2012
27	Think Tank X Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop...	9256	Oct 13, 2013
27	The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in... Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter Year: 2010
26	Think Tank VII Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ...	9400	Oct 13, 2013
26	This article reports on an ongoing project that focuses on learning and innovation as prerequisites for sustainable tourism in a transnational environment defined by the European North Sea Region. According to Buhalis (2000: 113) providing i... Author: Janne Liburd & Anja Hergesell Year: 2007
25	OPA award A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...	9579	Jun 26, 2014
25	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
24	Think Tank X How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...	9698	Oct 13, 2013
24	This case study complements recent research on FDI in tourism in African countries conducted by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These projects aim to better understand the pro-development effects of tourism... Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli Year: 2010
23	Think Tank XII Origins, Evolution and Potential Future of the Coastal...	9699	Nov 06, 2013
23	Coastal caravan parks in Australia are in decline due to the conversion of beachfront land to higher yielding forms of commercial enterprise (Prideaux and McClymont, 2006; Tourism Research Australia, 2007). The resulting reduction in accommo... Author: Rod Caldicott & Pascal Scherrer Year: 2012

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