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No.	Subject	Views	Date
25	Think Tank XV Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...	7817	Jul 27, 2015
25	The holiday property market has seen a genuine boom in the last years with second homes being an integral part of today’s tourism and an important pillar in the accommodation sector. Today second homes are seen as an enabler for destination ... Author: Anita Zehrer Year: 2015
24	Think Tank VI Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	10114	Oct 13, 2013
24	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
23	Think Tank XIII Sustainable Tourism in Kerala - Chances for Local Comm...	10228	Nov 06, 2013
23	The Indian state Kerala is positioned by Kerala Tourism as a sustainable tourism destination for domestic and foreign markets (cf. Jean-Francois 2011). Indeed sustainable tourism projects take place and are conducted either by NGOs like Kaba... Author: Tatjana Thimm Year: 2013
22	Think Tank XIII Tourism investment and sustainable development: A comp...	16206	Nov 06, 2013
22	Despite the growing importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for tourism in developing countries and its perceived importance for stimulating sustainable development, few empirical studies have examined its impact. This paper explored t... Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli Year: 2013
21	Think Tank XIII Linking tourism with Sustainable Development in Post-R...	3520	Nov 06, 2013
21	This paper examines relationships between tourism and sustainable development via a case study that took place in Egypt from September 2011 to March 2012. The study, hosted by the Planeterra Foundation and G Adventures travel and conducted t... Author: Laura Carroll Year: 2013
20	Think Tank XIII Conceptualising a Framework to Analyse the Factors Inf...	20037	Nov 06, 2013
20	As the tourism industry continues to grow globally, sustainable tourism development has drawn interests among researchers, practitioners, governments and stakeholders. There are several studies on the local residents’ support for tourism, lo... Author: Samuel Folorunso Adeyinka-Ojo, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore & Vikneswaran Nair Year: 2013
19	Think Tank XII Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas...	17813	Nov 06, 2013
19	Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano... Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul Year: 2012
18	Think Tank XII Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...	5058	Nov 06, 2013
18	Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There... Author: Attama Nilnoppkun Year: 2012
17	Think Tank X Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network	9360	Oct 13, 2013
17	How the informal sectors create and share innovation in gaining competition is very important in tourism development. Commonly, informal sectors are embedded in their routines and lack of innovation capacities. Based on the case of pedicab ... Author: Maya Damayanti Year: 2010
16	Think Tank X How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...	10941	Oct 13, 2013
16	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
15	Think Tank X Sustainable Tourism Networks	9876	Oct 13, 2013
15	This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ... Author: Seldjan Timur Year: 2010
14	Think Tank X Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...	9837	Oct 13, 2013
14	Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci... Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand Year: 2010
13	Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...	8735	Oct 13, 2013
13	Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has... Author: Pierre Benckendorff Year: 2009
12	Think Tank IX Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...	7932	Oct 13, 2013
12	What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,... Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth Year: 2009
11	Think Tank IX Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...	12383	Oct 13, 2013
11	This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I... Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul Year: 2009
10	Think Tank IX Valuing Open Innovation Environments in Tourism Educat...	7378	Oct 13, 2013
10	The world has changed tremendously since the publication of Our Common Future by the World Commission for Environment and Development (1987), which elevated the concept of sustainable development from grassroots initiatives to the forefront... Author: Janne Liburd & Anne-Mette Hjalager Year: 2009
9	Think Tank IX Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...	12146	Oct 13, 2013
9	This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st... Author: Marina Novelli Year: 2009
8	Think Tank VII The Community of Communicators and the Communication o...	12426	Oct 13, 2013
8	In spite of the trend towards business as a key element in society and tourism, governments still play an important role in the sustainable development debate. Like any social institution, governments and related organizations do not always ... Author: Keith Henning Year: 2007
7	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	9514	Oct 13, 2013
7	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
6	Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...	7504	Oct 13, 2013
6	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important issue for some governments but the tourism industry appears to be slow in adopting CSR strategies. By focusing on CSR, we argue that the implementation of CSR audits could help t... Author: Ya-Ting Huang, David Botterill & Eleri Jones Year: 2006

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