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No.	Subject	Views	Date
61	Think Tank XVIII Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi...	5823	Jan 07, 2019
61	Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub Year: 2018
60	Think Tank XVIII Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...	5304	Jan 07, 2019
60	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
59	Think Tank XVIII Visitor management in protected areas	12270	Jan 07, 2019
59	Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand Author: Julia Nina Albrecht Year: 2018
58	Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation	4534	Jul 27, 2015
58	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
57	Think Tank XV Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...	2834	Jul 27, 2015
57	Firms are nowadays facing growing pressure from governments and environmental institutions to reduce their ecological footprint. While a growing number of empirical studies have examined the impact of green management policies on firms’ fina... Author: Christelle Cortese & Mondher Sahli Year: 2015
56	Think Tank XV Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...	4584	Jul 27, 2015
56	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
55	Think Tank XV Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...	3612	Jul 27, 2015
55	Tourism is a fragile industry with multiple stakeholders. Globally, the desire of its stakeholders is to gain more benefits and eliminate negative impacts on resources that support the industry, particularly in protected areas (PAs) such as ... Author: Richie Wandwi Year: 2015
54	Think Tank XIV Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge...	12874	Jul 07, 2014
54	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
53	Think Tank XIV Development of a Certification System for Sustainable ...	6906	Jun 27, 2014
53	Tourism destinations are complex entities that can be defined as geographical areas of different sizes that are being visited by tourists. Most definitions then differentiate between the perspectives of those living in and managing a destina... Author: Wolfgang Strasdas Year: 2014
52	Think Tank XIV Assessing Samui Island's Sustainable Tourism Policies ...	13948	Jun 26, 2014
52	Since 2009, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) promoted sustainable tourism practices through its – 7 Greens Concept, which is similar to the main global trends towards sustainable tourism. The 7 Greens Concept includes Green Heart, Gre... Author: Attama Nilnoppakun, Krissada Pornprapa, Nattapong Boonlue & Kreagrit Ampawat Year: 2014
51	Think Tank XIV Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe...	11294	Jun 26, 2014
51	The primary rationale for embedding values-based learning in tourism higher education is to engage students’ learning-to-learn and learning-to-be, rather than simply learning about a topic, such as tourism management or sustainability (Libur... Author: Tanja Mihalič, Janne J. Liburd & Jaume Guia Year: 2014
50	Think Tank XIV A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...	8714	Jun 26, 2014
50	In this study, I take up the task to work towards a theoretical and methodological framework that allows using sustainability as a threshold concept for critically evaluating the assumptions embedded in both tourism management theory and pra... Author: José-Carlos García-Rosell Year: 2014
49	Think Tank XIV Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...	6687	Jun 26, 2014
49	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
48	Think Tank XIV The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t...	6453	Jun 26, 2014
48	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
47	Think Tank V Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...	6777	Dec 14, 2013
47	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
46	Think Tank V Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management	9304	Dec 14, 2013
46	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
45	Think Tank IX Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...	35416	Oct 13, 2013
45	This paper evaluates cultural conflicts between indigenous groups, recreation users and management agencies over the appropriate amenity use of protected areas in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It assesses both social values conflicts ... Author: Heather Zeppel Year: 2009 OPA: 2009 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
44	Think Tank VI Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	10114	Oct 13, 2013
44	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
43	Think Tank XIII Modeling the Index Components of Tourist Satisfaction ...	8492	Nov 06, 2013
43	Destination performance evaluation has become an increasingly important task for effective destination management and sustainable destination development. However, it is a complex task due to the inclusion of diverse subsectors, business com... Author: Toney K. Thomas Year: 2013
42	Think Tank XIII Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo...	6309	Nov 06, 2013
42	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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