102 |
Think Tank V
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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5365 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper describes the application of lessons and processes gleaned from previous crises and disasters to the tourism recovery process for the Maldives following the tsunami of December 26 th , 2004. An assessment of existing literature as...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2005
OPA: 2005 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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101 |
Think Tank XI
Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun...
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5413 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Sustainability has long been a theme in the tourism research and planning literature and is a growing concern in the wider area of business and corporate management. Consequent to these trends in practice and research there has been a growt...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2011
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100 |
Think Tank IV
It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut...
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5419 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper contributes to the debate by reporting on inital findings from a wider study of volunteers in museums and art museums that was designed to empirically explore volunteer motivation, expectations, values and commitment. The aim of t...
Author: Deborah Edwards
Year: 2004
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99 |
Think Tank X
Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...
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5444 | Oct 13, 2013 |
As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi...
Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber
Year: 2010
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98 |
Think Tank XIV
Development of a Certification System for Sustainable ...
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5454 | 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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97 |
Think Tank VIII
Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in T...
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5461 | Oct 13, 2013 |
During the last two decades, there has been increased focus on topics related to various aspects of sustainable tourism. Believing that sustainable tourism can be a serious alternative that can remedy some of the negative impacts associated ...
Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Muzzo S. Uysal & Turgut Var
Year: 2008
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96 |
Think Tank XII
Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme...
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5471 | 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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95 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Travel & Tourism B...
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5490 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses some economic, social, and environmental “hard issues” for the travel and tourism (T&T) industry with the aim of shedding some light on little discussed aspects of industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) with ...
Author: David Stipanuk
Year: 2006
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94 |
Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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5498 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields o...
Author: Maeve Morrissey, Kevin Griffin & Sheila Flanagan
Year: 2010
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93 |
OPA award
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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5618 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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92 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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5637 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Since 2002 the Flemish Tourism Board, the executive agency of the Flemish Ministry of Tourism, has implemented different actions to introduce the principles of sustainable tourism into tourism education in Flanders. The general objective is...
Author: Griet Geudens & Manuel Minne
Year: 2011
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91 |
Think Tank VII
Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...
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5661 | 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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90 |
Think Tank XIV
The Bukit Jalil Legacy: Local Residents' Perceptions o...
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5691 | Jun 26, 2014 |
This paper explores local population’s perceptions of the development of the Bukit Jalil area after the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games. The work on which this study is based is important because it provides a fundamental insight for th...
Author: Rui Qi Chong & Paolo Mura
Year: 2014
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89 |
Think Tank XII
Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...
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5703 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The travel between home and destination is a key element of any holiday and has received increasing attention by tourism scholars as its environmental and particularly its climatic impacts have become widely recognized (Gössling 2002; Metz, ...
Author: Astrid Dickinger & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2012
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88 |
Think Tank XII
Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:...
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5796 | 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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87 |
Think Tank XIV
Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism?
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5800 | Jun 27, 2014 |
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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86 |
Think Tank IX
Valuing Open Innovation Environments in Tourism Educat...
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5831 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The world has changed tremendously since the publication of Our Common Future by the World Commission for Environment and Development (1987), which elevated the concept of sustainable development from grassroots initiatives to the forefront...
Author: Janne Liburd & Anne-Mette Hjalager
Year: 2009
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85 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...
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5833 | 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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84 |
Think Tank IX
Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...
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5866 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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83 |
Think Tank XI
Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...
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5872 | Oct 14, 2013 |
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
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