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Think Tank XIV
Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f...
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5113 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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Transport is a vital and integral component of the tourism system yet it contributes the most emissions in tourism (Dubois, Peeters, Ceron, & Gössling, 2011; Peeters & Dubois, 2010). In line with the global concerns for sustainabilit...
Author: Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn
Year: 2014
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Think Tank XIV
Exploring the Relationship between General Environment...
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4800 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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These challenges raise the questions of how to determine who is environmentally friendly, i.e. who is potentially part of this group acknowledging the range and diversity in environmental behaviours and their uptake. An alternative approach ...
Author: Anja Hergesell
Year: 2014
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OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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8763 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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 XII
The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca...
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21074 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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Nature-based tourism is a form of travel that is often believed to lend itself more to sustainable development than other tourism segments. In fact, the concept of ecotourism – defined as nature tourism that is sustainable – was developed in...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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4395 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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 XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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7372 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...
Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...
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6901 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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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Think Tank XII
Sustainable Mobilities Beyond the Report: Covert Susta...
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5960 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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The concept of sustainable development has become a mainstream idea in the governance and management of travel and tourism. Over the past two decades it has attracted considerable attention and debate. While the principles of sustainable dev...
Author: Tim Coles, Emily Fenclova & Claire Dinan
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
It's how you get there: Developing a Transportation Mo...
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3740 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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 IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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9536 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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