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No.	Subject	Views	Date
62	Think Tank X Sustainable Tourism Networks	7568	Oct 13, 2013
62	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
61	Think Tank VII The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...	7404	Oct 13, 2013
61	"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character... Author: Alan A. Lew Year: 2007
60	Think Tank X The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...	7342	Oct 13, 2013
60	The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc... Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford Year: 2010 OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
59	Think Tank IX How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...	7306	Oct 13, 2013
59	Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ... Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen Year: 2009
58	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	7257	Oct 13, 2013
58	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
57	Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...	7256	Oct 13, 2013
57	A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Tec... Author: Larry Dwyer, Deborah Edwards, Nina Mistilis, & Carolina Roman Year: 2007
56	Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...	6917	Oct 13, 2013
56	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
55	Think Tank XIV A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...	6890	Jun 26, 2014
55	Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an... Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer Year: 2014 OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
54	Think Tank VI Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	6877	Oct 13, 2013
54	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
53	Think Tank XIV A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...	6747	Jun 26, 2014
53	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
52	Think Tank XII Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ...	6618	Nov 06, 2013
52	It is nearing the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) (United Nations, 2011), an awareness raising campaign which “seeks to mobilize the educational resources of the world to help create a mo... Author: Erica Wilson, Tania von der Heidt, Geoffrey Lamberton & Dayle Morrison Year: 2012
51	Think Tank VII The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...	6450	Oct 13, 2013
51	The internationally acclaimed Blackstone Valley Tourism Council continues to create a sustainable visitor destination using whole place-making techniques. Under its auspices, the Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development Laboratory share... Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter & Lilly Kayamba Year: 2007
50	Think Tank XIII Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Capital in...	6374	Nov 06, 2013
50	There is substantial literature on the impacts of tourism on culture, both positive and negative, however, there are relatively few articles that explore the relationship between cultural capital and sustainable tourism. This paper will repo... Author: Laurie Murphy & Andrea Schurmann Year: 2013
49	Think Tank XIV Bird-watching Routes as Collaborative Stakeholderships...	6371	Jun 27, 2014
49	Although there are numerous birding trails with varying levels of success, prior to this study, little research existed as to how birding trails are designed, implemented and managed. Thus, the study posed and answered the following research... Author: Krisztian Vas Year: 2014
48	Think Tank XIV The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...	6101	Jun 26, 2014
48	Social tourism refers to initiatives that aim to include groups into tourism that would otherwise be excluded from it. The earliest definition of social tourism by Hunzicker (1951) described social tourism as ‘‘the relationships and phenomen... Author: Lynn Minnaert Year: 2014
47	Think Tank X Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network	5943	Oct 13, 2013
47	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
46	Think Tank XV A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...	5826	Jul 27, 2015
46	Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins... Author: Amy Savener Year: 2015
45	Think Tank IX Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...	5651	Oct 13, 2013
45	This paper proposes a simple model that depicts the relationship between community and extra-community stakeholders that will enable the effective development of sustainable tourism. “Sustainable tourism” in this paper is defined as tourism ... Author: Asami Shikida, Mami Yoda, Akiko Kino & Masayuki Morishige Year: 2009
44	Think Tank XI Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...	5549	Oct 14, 2013
44	As Sontag (1979) stated, we live in an image-based world within which we are continuously bombarded with visuals in countless formats and guises. However, despite such image saturation, academic engagement whether through teaching or resear... Author: Caroline Scarles Year: 2011
43	Think Tank XIV Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism?	5500	Jun 27, 2014
43	Slow travel as a research field has increased in popularity in the last decade. The concept started to gain attention through online communities, and tourism researchers have become interested in the possible benefits that slow travel may ha... Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller Year: 2014

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