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Think Tank XII
Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo...
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6436 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2012
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121 |
Think Tank XII
The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca...
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20537 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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120 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas...
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16956 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano...
Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul
Year: 2012
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119 |
Think Tank XII
Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme...
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5734 | Nov 06, 2013 |
While there has been a developing interest in mobilities amongst tourism scholars, the notion of immobilities has often been ignored. Yet, there are many people who do not participate in tourism or, if they do, only experience partial mobili...
Author: Jennifer Small
Year: 2012
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118 |
Think Tank XII
Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:...
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6003 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export ...
Author: Mondher Sahli & Simon Carey
Year: 2012
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117 |
OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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8125 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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116 |
Think Tank XII
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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4036 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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115 |
Think Tank XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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6893 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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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114 |
Think Tank XII
Unsustainable Travel Development: The Case of Aviation...
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3869 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Considering the apparent importance of low-cost aviation, and its dramatic development, there is remarkably little research done about its consequences on European mobility. A few studies have mapped the development of networks (cf. Dobruszk...
Author: Jan Henrik Nilsson
Year: 2012
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113 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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4504 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...
Author: Attama Nilnoppkun
Year: 2012
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112 |
Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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11143 | Nov 06, 2013 |
“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov
Year: 2012
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111 |
Think Tank XII
Barriers and Benefits to Professional Development: Per...
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34342 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper builds upon the body of literature on tourism mobilities by considering supply-side perspectives as it relates to workforce planning and preparation. Research into tourism destination competitiveness has suggested that for a touri...
Author: Kevin Lyons, Joanne Hanley & Tamara Young
Year: 2012
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110 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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4090 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2012
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109 |
Think Tank XII
Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract...
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6657 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through...
Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters
Year: 2012
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108 |
Think Tank XII
The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...
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3990 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...
Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson
Year: 2012
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107 |
Think Tank XII
Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ...
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4839 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Bali has long been a tourist destination for Australian tourists and the Australian tourist market is an important one for Bali tourism. In the last two decades, increasingly Australian tourists have and are shifting their mobility practices...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2012
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106 |
Think Tank XII
Identifying Issues with Tourist Wayfinding: A Collabor...
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3694 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper reports on a study that was conducted in conjunction with Destination NSW, the government tourism authority for the state of New South Wales in Australia. The purpose of the study was to examine tourist wayfinding behaviour in Syd...
Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards
Year: 2012
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105 |
Think Tank XII
Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:...
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4887 | Nov 06, 2013 |
For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...
Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould
Year: 2012
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104 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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4464 | 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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103 |
Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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4232 | Nov 06, 2013 |
As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King
Year: 2012
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