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Think Tank VII
Innovations in Volunteer Tourism: A Case Study of Fund...
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4924 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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101 |
Think Tank XII
Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:...
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4917 | 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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100 |
Think Tank XIV
Psychological Empowerment as Good Policy for Governanc...
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4912 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential impact psychological empowerment can have on sustainable tourism policy objectives, including improving resident attitudes toward tourism, enhancing destination competitiveness, and maint...
Author: B. Bynum Boley & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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99 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring the potential of Community Based Ecotourism ...
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4911 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Development in developing countries often results in mass land-use change and subsequent increase in greenhouse gas emission by deforestation or forest degradation. For instance, approximately a-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions was a...
Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton, Amy Reggers & Hanna Sakata
Year: 2014
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98 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Travel & Tourism B...
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4892 | 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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97 |
Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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4886 | 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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96 |
Think Tank VIII
Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the F...
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4871 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Lifestyle has been oft cited in the literature as the main motivation for those establishing or acquiring tourism related businesses in attractive destinations. However, the term has many different dimensions and connotations, both positive...
Author: Jack Carlsen & Alison Morrison
Year: 2008
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95 |
Think Tank VIII
Emerging Green Tourists: Their Behaviours and Attitudes
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4832 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The concerns are varied and are not necessarily important to all tourists and the influence they have on sustaining the industry is unknown. For years the tourism industry has used a number of mechanisms in an attempt to green operators. The...
Author: Sue Bergin-Seers & Judith Mair
Year: 2008
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94 |
Think Tank XII
Sustainable Tourism: Is it better to travel or not to ...
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4822 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism’s growing contribution to climate change has come to the forefront of the sustainable tourism literature as evidenced by the Journal of Sustainable Tourism’s (JOST) 2010 publication of a special issue titled “Tourism: Adapting to Cli...
Author: B. Bynum Boley
Year: 2012
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93 |
Think Tank XII
Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par...
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4723 | 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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92 |
Think Tank X
Establishing a Network of European Rural Villages for ...
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4606 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The paper deals with the research activity carried out by the Authors in the context of the European Project “Listen to the Voice of Villages”. The focus is on the governance asset and tools able to enhance sustainable tourism development i...
Author: Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa & Fabio Sacco
Year: 2010
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91 |
Think Tank V
Resident Segments Using SUS-TAS
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4604 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recognizing that tools developed solely to measure perceptions of positive/negative impacts of tourism within the traditional conceptual works are insufficient, recently Choi and Sirakaya (2005) developed and tested both an innovative framew...
Author: Ercan Sirakayae, Linda J. Ingram & Hwan Suk Chris Choi
Year: 2005
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90 |
Think Tank XIII
Building community capacity by developing regional bus...
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4588 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism is often proposed as a strategy for community development, especially in rural or remote regions where traditional industries, such as agriculture, are experiencing an economic downturn and there are limited alternative opportunities...
Author: Anna Blackman
Year: 2013
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89 |
Think Tank XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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4581 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism at a destination is dependent on the maintenance and good management of its attractive assets. In non-urban areas, the assets will primarily be geological, natural and/or cultural, frequently of a sensitive nature, liable...
Author: David Ward-Perkins & Frédéric Dimanche
Year: 2012
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88 |
Think Tank XIV
Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainabili...
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4530 | 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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87 |
Think Tank XIV
The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t...
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4506 | 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 |
OPA award
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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4437 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within the tourism industry. This paper present...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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85 |
Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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4431 | 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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84 |
Think Tank XII
Sustainable Mobilities Beyond the Report: Covert Susta...
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4408 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The concept of sustainable development has become a mainstream idea in the governance and management of travel and tourism. Over the past two decades it has attracted considerable attention and debate. While the principles of sustainable dev...
Author: Tim Coles, Emily Fenclova & Claire Dinan
Year: 2012
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83 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainability in a Mature Mass-Tourism Destination: T...
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4374 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Most destinations are struggling to achieve sustainability for their economies, their environments, their cultures and their tourism industries. This laudatory, idealistic and complex process involves many sectors of the industry, the commun...
Author: Pauline Sheldon, John Knox & Kem Lowry
Year: 2004
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