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Think Tank XIV
Development of a Certification System for Sustainable ...
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5448 | Jun 27, 2014 |
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
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Think Tank XIII
Modeling the Index Components of Tourist Satisfaction ...
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5335 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank XII
Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par...
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5299 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...
Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XIV
Psychological Empowerment as Good Policy for Governanc...
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5263 | 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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Think Tank XIV
The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t...
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5256 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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
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Think Tank X
Establishing a Network of European Rural Villages for ...
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4840 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The paper deals with the research activity carried out by the Authors in the context of the European Project “Listen to the Voice of Villages”. The focus is on the governance asset and tools able to enhance sustainable tourism development i...
Author: Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa & Fabio Sacco
Year: 2010
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Think Tank XIII
Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo...
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4715 | 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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Think Tank IV
Sustainability and Mass Destinations: Challenges and P...
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4451 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In year 2001, the Government of the Balearic Islands decided to establish a tourism tax, named "ecotax", as an important measure to achieve a more sustainable tourism model for the islands. This paper analyses the background of the ecotax, t...
Author: Antoni Serra Cantallops
Year: 2004
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Think Tank XIII
Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...
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4215 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran
Year: 2013
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Think Tank V
Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...
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4176 | Oct 13, 2013 |
How to manage risks that endanger development of tourism but that are caused by tourism itself? An industry-based model is presented as an analytic tool and adapted to the situation in tourism. It is argued that development of tourism lacks ...
Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Redzepovic
Year: 2005
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Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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4169 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...
Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin
Year: 2012
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Think Tank IV
Cultural Tourism as a Means for Sustainability in a Ma...
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4169 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism has become for many islands a means of social, economic and cultural development through the creation of jobs, raising standards of living and through the development of local resources for culture and heritage. Thus, many of these d...
Author: Chryso Panayidou
Year: 2004
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Think Tank XIV
Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw...
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4099 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...
Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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3921 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism, like any other endeavour, operates within the social and political domains of a community, and it is therefore likely that residents with different social and political values would hold different representations of tourism. In the ...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2009
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Think Tank X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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3780 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Rapid growth in resort areas, combined with environmental and market stresses, has recently created concern amongst resort decision-makers about future paths of development. Growth models have operated effectively in maintaining resort comp...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2010
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Think Tank IV
Environmental Attitudes of Tourism Activity Providers ...
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3567 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper looks at the issue of environmental awareness and the related topic of 'ecolabels' in a New Zealand context, adopting a supplier's perspective to gain a greater insight into the attitudes of those managing and providing tourism pr...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2004
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Responsibility as Essential to Sustainable T...
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3539 | 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 XIV
Sustainability and the Politics of Place in Resort Des...
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3017 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The nature of a resort will reflect the varying coalitions, partnerships and discourses that emerge from the relative power of actors within the dominant political regime (Gill 2007). In this paper we examine the evolving discourse around th...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of...
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2154 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2008
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