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Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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5969 | 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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141 |
Think Tank XIV
The Development of a National Tourism Research Agenda ...
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5895 | Jun 26, 2014 |
A national research agenda identifies the research priorities that need to be addressed to “inform future policy and service delivery” by government and “for use by academics and practitioners to stimulate research, partnerships and collabor...
Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2014
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140 |
Think Tank XIII
Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo...
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5881 | Nov 06, 2013 |
In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t...
Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2013
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139 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Networks
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5871 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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138 |
Think Tank VII
Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ...
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5652 | 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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137 |
Think Tank XIII
Striving for Environmental Sustainability through Soci...
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5625 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The question how native societies cope with the increasing pressure of global values, such as sustainability, westernization and democratic institutions has been asked in the last decades (Smith, 1989; Honey, 1999; Nash, 2001; Honey, 2008). ...
Author: Peter Varga
Year: 2013
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136 |
Think Tank XII
Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun...
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5593 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ...
Author: Julia Albrecht
Year: 2012
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135 |
Think Tank X
Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network
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5545 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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134 |
Think Tank VI
Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role...
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5499 | 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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133 |
Think Tank XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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5499 | 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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132 |
Think Tank V
Political Instability and its Effects on Tourism
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5341 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism today is second only to oil as the world’s leading export commodity, accounting for global earnings of more than $300 billion, or nearly 25 per cent of total world GNP (Poirier 2000, p30, cited in Dieke, 2000). Over the last two deca...
Author: Sarah JR Ryu
Year: 2005
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131 |
Think Tank XIV
Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism?
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5247 | 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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130 |
OPA award
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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5161 | 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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129 |
Think Tank IX
Valuing Open Innovation Environments in Tourism Educat...
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5134 | 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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128 |
Think Tank XII
Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...
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5116 | 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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127 |
Think Tank XI
Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...
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5100 | 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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126 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...
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5027 | 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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125 |
Think Tank VII
The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...
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5020 | 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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124 |
Think Tank V
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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4997 | 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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123 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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4990 | 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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