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Think Tank X
Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...
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10279 | 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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141 |
Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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10158 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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140 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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10152 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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139 |
Think Tank XII
Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...
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9970 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...
Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller
Year: 2012
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138 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...
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9831 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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
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137 |
Think Tank XII
Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par...
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9809 | 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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136 |
Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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9790 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper details the development, delivery and outcomes of a Masters course in Tourism Development that was delivered by the Royal University of Phnom Penh, with the assistance and support of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and t...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2005
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135 |
Think Tank XI
Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun...
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9784 | 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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134 |
Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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9735 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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133 |
Think Tank VII
The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...
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9634 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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132 |
Think Tank VI
Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role...
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9585 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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131 |
OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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9505 | 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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130 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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9503 | Dec 19, 2013 |
This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...
Author: Kitsada Tungchawal
Year: 2008
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129 |
OPA award
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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9387 | 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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128 |
Think Tank XII
Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ...
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9284 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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127 |
Think Tank XII
Employee Work Attitudes, Mobility and Promotional Oppo...
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9176 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The issue of employee mobility is brought into sharp focus in times of economic and social uncertainty. Previous studies into the causes of employee mobility have investigated, among other determinants, the link between the promotional oppor...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Michael Stewart
Year: 2012
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126 |
Think Tank VII
Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...
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9099 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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125 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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9099 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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
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124 |
Think Tank XV
A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...
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8973 | Jul 27, 2015 |
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
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123 |
Think Tank VIII
Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...
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8858 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ...
Author: Larry Dwyer
Year: 2008
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