102 |
Think Tank XII
Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract...
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7791 | 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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101 |
Think Tank XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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7767 | 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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100 |
Think Tank XIV
Tourism Concessions in National Parks: Neo-liberal Too...
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7759 | Jun 26, 2014 |
For the tourism sector the government aims to “Grow the number of new business opportunities on public conservation land in order to deliver increased economic prosperity and conservation gain” (New Zealand Government, 2012: 23). In relation...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2014
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99 |
Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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7714 | 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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98 |
Think Tank XIV
The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...
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7689 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Social tourism refers to initiatives that aim to include groups into tourism that would otherwise be excluded from it. The earliest definition of social tourism by Hunzicker (1951) described social tourism as ‘‘the relationships and phenomen...
Author: Lynn Minnaert
Year: 2014
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97 |
Think Tank V
Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...
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7587 | Dec 14, 2013 |
Many tourism professionals are afraid to speak about terms such as tourism security and tourism safety. There is a common feeling among tourism and travel professionals that these terms will frighten customers and that the less said the bett...
Author: Peter E. Tarlow
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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96 |
Think Tank XII
Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...
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7574 | 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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95 |
Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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7541 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...
Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle
Year: 2008
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94 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak...
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7494 | Jun 27, 2014 |
This paper looks at the development of an ecotrekking industry on the Kokoda Track and demonstrates how the use of participatory methods in community based tourism can align two different “regimes of truth” (that of the community and of the ...
Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton & Amy Reggers
Year: 2014
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93 |
Think Tank XIV
Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainabili...
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7486 | Jul 07, 2014 |
A number of ongoing and new initiatives aim at the tourism sector with the intention of improving sustainability within the sector and through tourism in other economic and social activities. Dirk's presentation reflects on UNWTO’s position ...
Author: Dirk Glaesser
Year: 2014
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92 |
Think Tank XIII
Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo...
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7481 | 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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91 |
Think Tank VII
Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics
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7477 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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90 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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7412 | 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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89 |
Think Tank IV
It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut...
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7292 | 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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88 |
Think Tank IV
Possibilities for Sustainable Tourism Management in Ac...
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7222 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainability is an inevitable concept in tourism which heavily depends on natural resources and environment with its products and services. Here prevention and controlling water, air and noise pollution, habitat degradation is more importa...
Author: Meryem Atik, Türker Altan & A. Akin Aksu
Year: 2004
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87 |
Think Tank XIV
The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t...
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7189 | Jun 26, 2014 |
It is well recognized that the local borders of a tourism destination are not easy to delineate as they are constantly changing through complex practices and discourses due to historical, political, and economic factors. In fact, recent stud...
Author: Dani Blasco, Jaume Guia & Lluís Prats
Year: 2014
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86 |
Think Tank XIII
Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo...
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7178 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite the importance of cities and tourism flows to cities, the literature which explores the effect of tourism on host communities tends to focus on non-urban locations. As different types of tourists place different demands upon the reso...
Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards
Year: 2013
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85 |
Think Tank VI
How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ...
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7145 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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84 |
Think Tank XII
Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:...
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7115 | 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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83 |
Think Tank XIV
The Bukit Jalil Legacy: Local Residents' Perceptions o...
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6982 | 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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