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Think Tank XIV
The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...
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7529 | 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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Think Tank XII
Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...
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7453 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The travel between home and destination is a key element of any holiday and has received increasing attention by tourism scholars as its environmental and particularly its climatic impacts have become widely recognized (Gössling 2002; Metz, ...
Author: Astrid Dickinger & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2012
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252 |
Think Tank XIV
Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...
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7420 | 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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251 |
Think Tank V
Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...
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7420 | Dec 14, 2013 |
Many tourism professionals are afraid to speak about terms such as tourism security and tourism safety. There is a common feeling among tourism and travel professionals that these terms will frighten customers and that the less said the bett...
Author: Peter E. Tarlow
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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250 |
Think Tank XIII
Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo...
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7401 | Nov 06, 2013 |
In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t...
Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2013
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Think Tank XIV
Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak...
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7389 | Jun 27, 2014 |
This paper looks at the development of an ecotrekking industry on the Kokoda Track and demonstrates how the use of participatory methods in community based tourism can align two different “regimes of truth” (that of the community and of the ...
Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton & Amy Reggers
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VII
Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics
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7345 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tether (2003) describes innovation within service industries as having a Cinderella status - marginal and neglected. The traditional approach to thinking about innovation has been to concentrate on manufacturing and within that, the role of...
Author: Graham Miller & Caroline Scarles
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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7343 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...
Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle
Year: 2008
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Think Tank XIV
Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainabili...
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7327 | Jul 07, 2014 |
A number of ongoing and new initiatives aim at the tourism sector with the intention of improving sustainability within the sector and through tourism in other economic and social activities. Dirk's presentation reflects on UNWTO’s position ...
Author: Dirk Glaesser
Year: 2014
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245 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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7287 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Since 2002 the Flemish Tourism Board, the executive agency of the Flemish Ministry of Tourism, has implemented different actions to introduce the principles of sustainable tourism into tourism education in Flanders. The general objective is...
Author: Griet Geudens & Manuel Minne
Year: 2011
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...
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7277 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev...
Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall
Year: 2008
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Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Labels: A Suitable Tool for Consum...
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7215 | 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
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242 |
Think Tank XI
Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun...
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7205 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Sustainability has long been a theme in the tourism research and planning literature and is a growing concern in the wider area of business and corporate management. Consequent to these trends in practice and research there has been a growt...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2011
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Think Tank XVII
From Sustainability to Resilience: Understanding Diffe...
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7203 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The tourism literature on the relationship between resilience and sustainability is still in its infancy. Some argue that resilience planning has emerged as an alternative to sustainable development to provide new perspectives on socio-ecolo...
Author: Girish Prayag & Caroline Orchiston & Mesbahuddin Chowdhury
Year: 2017
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240 |
Think Tank IV
It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut...
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7169 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper contributes to the debate by reporting on inital findings from a wider study of volunteers in museums and art museums that was designed to empirically explore volunteer motivation, expectations, values and commitment. The aim of t...
Author: Deborah Edwards
Year: 2004
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239 |
Think Tank X
Climate Change Mitigation among Accommodation Provider...
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7068 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper explores the relationship between network membership and innovation towards more sustainable tourism development. In particular it examines the extent to which tourism businesses have introduced measures to mitigate the effects of...
Author: Tim Coles, Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner & Claire Dinan
Year: 2010
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238 |
Think Tank XIII
Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo...
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7032 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite the importance of cities and tourism flows to cities, the literature which explores the effect of tourism on host communities tends to focus on non-urban locations. As different types of tourists place different demands upon the reso...
Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards
Year: 2013
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237 |
Think Tank VIII
Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...
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6995 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very sim...
Author: Sebastian Filep
Year: 2008
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236 |
Think Tank XIV
The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t...
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6991 | Jun 26, 2014 |
It is well recognized that the local borders of a tourism destination are not easy to delineate as they are constantly changing through complex practices and discourses due to historical, political, and economic factors. In fact, recent stud...
Author: Dani Blasco, Jaume Guia & Lluís Prats
Year: 2014
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235 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Museum Sector a...
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6978 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Out of a growing concern about the erosion of social infrastructure has come an increase in pressure on business to take up more of the responsibility in meeting community needs (Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 2000; Loza & Ogilvie...
Author: Deborah Edwards
Year: 2006
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