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Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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3909 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...
Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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9160 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recent challenges within the hospitality industry highlight a critical need for research and innovation to inform management practice. Surprisingly, however, a comprehensive review of literature has found that innovation research within the...
Author: Conrad Lashley & Barry O'Mahony
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...
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6105 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This is a study of the relationships between two volunteer tourism host communities and the volunteer tourists who visit them. One is a declining rural community located in the Appalachian mountains of the United States. The other is in a ra...
Author: Nancy McGehee
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris...
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12132 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Communities have a variety of interest levels in tourism overall, including sustainable tourism (WTO, 2002). While we have witnessed increased awareness and discussions about sustainability and sustainable tourism, there is often a lack of s...
Author: Cynthia Messer, Ingrid Schneider & Okechukwu Ukaga
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...
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11827 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h...
Author: Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism
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2546 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The antecedents of the modern outfitter are numerous and varied, reaching far back into mythology, allegoric literature, history, and geographic exploration. Throughout history, guides have played two distinct roles, the pathfinder and the m...
Author: Norma Nickerson
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an...
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2489 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ethical questions related to globalization, human rights, unfair labor practices and trans-boundary exchanges of capital and work force create ever more complex challenges for the tourism sustainability agenda. In recent years, the tourism i...
Author: Camelia Tepelus
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...
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5683 | Oct 13, 2013 |
"Operational definitions of tourism sustainability require details regarding what is to be sustained, for whom it is to be sustained, and the level at which it is to be sustained." This is the introductory sentence to "A Dynamic Model of Sus...
Author: Timothy Tyrrell & Robert Johnston
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VI
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....
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7777 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on an element of an ongoing research project undertaken since 1999 in relation to the effects of film-induced tourism on a small community based in North Yorkshire, England, namely Goathland. Goathland is better known to ...
Author: Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
OPA: 2006 Runner Up
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Think Tank VI
Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...
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7241 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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OPA award
Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...
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7691 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VI
Hilton Environmental Reporting as a Tool of Corporate ...
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7963 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on the history, criteria and procedures within Hilton Environmental Reporting, a computerized reporting tool created by Addsystems for Hilton International. The development and implementation process of the upgraded versi...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Authenticity in Cultural Heritage Tourism as a means t...
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4616 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This work aims through a clarification of philosophical assumptions to define authenticity in a dialogical perspective on the premise that there is a linkage between authenticity and sustainability. This paper will to discuss the development...
Author: Bente Bramming
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees in Susta...
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3736 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has developed significantly over the last decade and has taken on a myriad of meanings. For many companies, it is a philosophy that helps guide their actions in the external environment. E...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Responsibility as Essential to Sustainable T...
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3554 | Oct 13, 2013 |
For tourism development to have sustainable outcomes at the destination level, business operations must be sustainable. Sustainable development for business means adopting strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and ...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Liz Fredline, Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Museum Sector a...
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5605 | 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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Think Tank VI
Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role...
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6883 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The integration of sustainability within the domain of tourism has recently made considerable progress. For instance, in the UK and the Netherlands, the most important federations of tour operators, the FTO and the ANVR, have introduced obli...
Author: Menno Houtstra
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...
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5863 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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Think Tank VI
National Park as a Social Corporation
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3665 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The issue is discussed how authorities of National Parks that aim to preserve biosphere can enlarge income. A review indicates that many Parks generate high income from tourism. A Dutch case illustrates that one can find sustainable innovat...
Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Christensen-Redzepovic
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Catalan hospita...
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75807 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The practices of CSR have attracted the attention of the investigators, who have prepared a great diversity of theories and the international organisms, which have done recommendations, so that the companies have added them in their strategi...
Author: Ramon Palau
Year: 2006
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