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No.	Subject	Views	Date
42	OPA award Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...	41361	Oct 13, 2013
42	Methods for researching the future have grown both in variety and rigour, offering new opportunities for understanding sustainable tourism. This paper discusses the value of futures research as a tool for envisioning and planning sustainable... Author: Pierre Benckendorff Year: 2007 OPA: 2007 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
41	Think Tank VII The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...	7108	Oct 13, 2013
41	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
40	Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...	8172	Oct 13, 2013
40	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
39	Think Tank VII Rural Adventure Tourism and Social Entrepreneurship	5025	Oct 13, 2013
39	The intent of this research is to provide a comparative analysis of several innovative social entrepreneurial businesses operating within the realm of rural adventure tourism. This qualitative, case-based research explores six companies, wh... Author: Christina Heyniger & Kristin Lamoureaux Year: 2007
38	Think Tank VII Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...	4050	Oct 13, 2013
38	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
37	Think Tank VII Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ...	10516	Oct 13, 2013
37	This article reports on an ongoing project that focuses on learning and innovation as prerequisites for sustainable tourism in a transnational environment defined by the European North Sea Region. According to Buhalis (2000: 113) providing i... Author: Janne Liburd & Anja Hergesell Year: 2007
36	Think Tank VII Innovations in Volunteer Tourism: A Case Study of Fund...	5678	Oct 13, 2013
36	The popularity of volunteer tourism as a form of alternative tourism has grown significantly over the past decade (McGehee, and Norman, 2002). Volunteer tourists can now be found throughout the world participating in a wide array of social, ... Author: Kevin Lyons Year: 2007
35	Think Tank VII Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...	6369	Oct 13, 2013
35	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
34	Think Tank VII Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris...	12339	Oct 13, 2013
34	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
33	Think Tank VII Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics	4967	Oct 13, 2013
33	Tether (2003) describes innovation within service industries as having a Cinderella status - marginal and neglected. The traditional approach to thinking about innovation has been to concentrate on manufacturing and within that, the role of... Author: Graham Miller & Caroline Scarles Year: 2007
32	Think Tank VII There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...	12033	Oct 13, 2013
32	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
31	Think Tank VII Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...	2317	Oct 13, 2013
31	This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201... Author: Pauline Sheldon Year: 2007
30	Think Tank VII Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an...	2745	Oct 13, 2013
30	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
29	Think Tank VII Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...	6038	Oct 13, 2013
29	"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
28	Think Tank VI The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....	8044	Oct 13, 2013
28	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
27	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	7981	Oct 13, 2013
27	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
26	Think Tank VI Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...	4450	Oct 13, 2013
26	A problem in developing new tourism markets remains how to resource them from an existing employment base. Key questions arising are: Do current tourism enterprises have the existing skills to move into these new markets for sustainable tour... Author: Susan Anita Briggs Year: 2006
25	Think Tank VI Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role...	7219	Oct 13, 2013
25	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
24	Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...	6213	Oct 13, 2013
24	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
23	Think Tank VI How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ...	3642	Oct 13, 2013
23	The research aims to develop a conceptual model of e-commerce adoption in tourism enterprises. The paper begins with a literature review identifying the opportunities and competitive advantage for tourism enterprises associated with E-commer... Author: Nina Mistilis & John D’Ambra Year: 2006

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