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Think Tank XII
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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2932 | 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
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Think Tank IV
Tourism focused NGO's - An Online Content Analysis
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2924 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The number of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) increased from 31,246 to 37,281 (19.3%) between 1990 and 2000, (Human Development Report, 2002). The importance of NGOs is documented in United Nations Local Agenda 21 Chapter 27, 'Strength...
Author: Meng-Mei Chen & James Holleran
Year: 2004
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Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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2854 | 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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Think Tank VIII
Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...
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2844 | 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
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Think Tank XIV
The Bukit Jalil Legacy: Local Residents' Perceptions o...
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2782 | Jun 26, 2014 |
This paper explores local population’s perceptions of the development of the Bukit Jalil area after the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games. The work on which this study is based is important because it provides a fundamental insight for th...
Author: Rui Qi Chong & Paolo Mura
Year: 2014
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Think Tank XII
It's how you get there: Developing a Transportation Mo...
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2749 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines the impacts of alternative modes of transportation utilized for an international study course in Ecuador during two consecutive summers. The analysis includes the perceived value of the student participants in relation to...
Author: Kenneth Cohen & John Bowen
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation of Tourism Flows:...
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2697 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The aim of this working paper is to demonstrate an interactive, real-time, transparent and dynamic approach to modelling tourism mobilities using agent-based simulation models [ABM]. ABM has previously been employed in studying organizationa...
Author: Jack Carlsen & Scott Heckbert
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XIV
The Prospects for Sustainable Tourism in Vanuatu in th...
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2677 | Jun 26, 2014 |
This paper explores the feasibility for Vanuatu of implementing several key international recommendations for policy-makers for the sustainable development (SD) of national tourism sectors (UNEP-WTO, 2005). It shows that the remarkable fragm...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2014
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Think Tank XIV
Sustainability and the Politics of Place in Resort Des...
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2642 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The nature of a resort will reflect the varying coalitions, partnerships and discourses that emerge from the relative power of actors within the dominant political regime (Gill 2007). In this paper we examine the evolving discourse around th...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2014
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Think Tank XII
Ex Post Investigations of Tourist Consumptions and Env...
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2578 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Progress towards a more sustainable future of tourism is conditioned by simultaneous improvements of the production and consumption of leisure. Consequently, efforts are done by companies (hotels, airlines, tour operators, etc), governmental...
Author: Adriana Budeanu
Year: 2012
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Think Tank V
An Economic Explanation of the Net Benefits of Tourism...
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2505 | Oct 13, 2013 |
International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism...
Author: Mondher Sahli & Jean-Jacques Nowak
Year: 2005
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Think Tank XV
Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation
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2457 | 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
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Think Tank XVIII
Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...
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2424 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Keywords: natural resource management, community participation, stakeholder engagement, co-creation, sustainable tourism, Networks of Reserves.
Author: Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa, Sandra Notaro, Nicola Zeni & Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi
Year: 2018
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Think Tank XIV
Exploring Youth Perspectives on Quality of Life and To...
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2339 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) is implicit in conceptualisations of tourism, especially those used to develop and guide tourism policy and planning. At the individual level it is assumed that travel offers a number of different ways to...
Author: Anna Blackman, Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VII
Innovative Technologies in Travel and Tourism - Toward...
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2320 | Oct 13, 2013 |
While it seems to be gradually dawning on humankind that the quality of our lives and (in extremis)survival of our and subsequent generations will depend to a significant extent on our ability and willingness to make urgent and significant ...
Author: Ivo Martinac
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XII
Tourist Cards - Experiences with Soft Mobility in Germ...
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2309 | Nov 06, 2013 |
An increasing number of destinations face the negative sides of tourism transport. Especially, the motorized (individual) traffic can cause ecological problems due to a risen traffic volume, noise and air pollution or its negative effects on...
Author: Dorothea Dürkop & Sven Gross
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
The Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds in 2010 and 2011 on ...
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2287 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Few recent events which disrupted global tourism and especially tourism mobility, match the impact of the volcanic ash clouds generated from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 and the Chilean volcano Puyehue in 20...
Author: David Beirman
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XV
Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...
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2248 | Jul 27, 2015 |
A number of recent incidents have focussed media attention on the phenomenon of tourist selfies, described their negative consequences for tourist destinations and identified a number of challenges for tourist site managers. This paper repor...
Author: John Pearce & Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2015
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Think Tank XIV
Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t...
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2211 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...
Author: Patricia C. Johnson
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VI
How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ...
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2208 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The research aims to develop a conceptual model of e-commerce adoption in tourism enterprises. The paper begins with a literature review identifying the opportunities and competitive advantage for tourism enterprises associated with E-commer...
Author: Nina Mistilis & John D’Ambra
Year: 2006
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