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Think Tank VI
How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ...
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6238 | 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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253 |
Think Tank XI
Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun...
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6167 | 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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252 |
Think Tank IX
Exploring Tourists’ Environmental Learning, Values, an...
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6159 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There is a need for a research agenda, which achieves a holistic understanding of the nature and influences of environmental learning on tourists’ environmental values and travel experiences in relation to climate change. Why, because touri...
Author: Ulrike Kachel & Gayle Jennings
Year: 2009
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251 |
Think Tank VIII
Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in T...
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6154 | 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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250 |
Think Tank XIV
The Bukit Jalil Legacy: Local Residents' Perceptions o...
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6115 | 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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249 |
Think Tank XIX
Promoting sustainable tourist experiences and resilien...
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6105 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: adapt, resilient, tourist experience, Maasai, Tanzania Page: 38-51 Promoting sustainable tourist experiences and resilient communities in the Ngorongoro Crater.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definition...
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred and Kevin Mearns
Year: 2019
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248 |
Think Tank XII
Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme...
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6045 | Nov 06, 2013 |
While there has been a developing interest in mobilities amongst tourism scholars, the notion of immobilities has often been ignored. Yet, there are many people who do not participate in tourism or, if they do, only experience partial mobili...
Author: Jennifer Small
Year: 2012
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247 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak...
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6022 | 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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246 |
Think Tank VII
Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics
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6019 | 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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245 |
Think Tank VII
Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability...
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6009 | Oct 13, 2013 |
With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T...
Author: Daniel Fesenmaier
Year: 2007
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244 |
Think Tank XIII
Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo...
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6007 | 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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243 |
Think Tank V
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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5984 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2005
OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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242 |
Think Tank XV
The role of interpretation in mindfulness/mindlessness...
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5979 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Cultural tourism is recently receiving increasing attention from southern African countries (The South African National Heritage and Cultural Tourism Strategy, 2012; Van Veuren, 2001). Cultural tourism is promoted as a local development stra...
Author: Haretsebe Manwa, Dudu Boemah & Emile Coetzee
Year: 2015
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241 |
Think Tank IV
It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut...
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5964 | 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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240 |
Think Tank XIV
Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...
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5930 | 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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239 |
Think Tank XIV
Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainabili...
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5869 | 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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238 |
Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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5864 | 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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237 |
Think Tank XIV
Psychological Empowerment as Good Policy for Governanc...
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5830 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential impact psychological empowerment can have on sustainable tourism policy objectives, including improving resident attitudes toward tourism, enhancing destination competitiveness, and maint...
Author: B. Bynum Boley & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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236 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring the potential of Community Based Ecotourism ...
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5772 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Development in developing countries often results in mass land-use change and subsequent increase in greenhouse gas emission by deforestation or forest degradation. For instance, approximately a-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions was a...
Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton, Amy Reggers & Hanna Sakata
Year: 2014
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235 |
Think Tank IX
Achieving Sustainability in Business Events; Challengi...
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5769 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Achieving sustainability is a challenge for all of society, but one that may prove especially problematic for the business events sector. Tourism in general and the business events industry in particular may be even more susceptible than oth...
Author: Judith Mair & Leo Jago
Year: 2009
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