82 |
Think Tank VIII
Emerging Green Tourists: Their Behaviours and Attitudes
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6989 | 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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81 |
Think Tank XV
The role of interpretation in mindfulness/mindlessness...
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6951 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Cultural tourism is recently receiving increasing attention from southern African countries (The South African National Heritage and Cultural Tourism Strategy, 2012; Van Veuren, 2001). Cultural tourism is promoted as a local development stra...
Author: Haretsebe Manwa, Dudu Boemah & Emile Coetzee
Year: 2015
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80 |
Think Tank XIII
Building community capacity by developing regional bus...
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6932 | 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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79 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainability in a Mature Mass-Tourism Destination: T...
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6817 | 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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78 |
Think Tank V
Crisis Communications and Tourism Recovery Strategies ...
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6804 | 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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77 |
Think Tank XIV
Psychological Empowerment as Good Policy for Governanc...
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6743 | 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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76 |
Think Tank XI
An introduction of the Global Sustainable Tourism Coun...
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6740 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the Global Sustainable Tourism Council and Criteria, in an effort to encourage the Criteria as part of a framework for sustainable tourism education. The history of the GSTC and Criteria will...
Author: Kelly Bricker
Year: 2011
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75 |
Think Tank XII
Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme...
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6737 | 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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74 |
OPA award
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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6587 | 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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73 |
Think Tank X
Establishing a Network of European Rural Villages for ...
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6581 | 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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72 |
Think Tank VIII
Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the F...
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6572 | 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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71 |
Think Tank XII
Sustainable Mobilities Beyond the Report: Covert Susta...
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6535 | 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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70 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainability and Mass Destinations: Challenges and P...
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6508 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In year 2001, the Government of the Balearic Islands decided to establish a tourism tax, named "ecotax", as an important measure to achieve a more sustainable tourism model for the islands. This paper analyses the background of the ecotax, t...
Author: Antoni Serra Cantallops
Year: 2004
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69 |
Think Tank VII
Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...
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6484 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Methods for researching the future have grown both in variety and rigour, offering new opportunities for understanding sustainable tourism. This paper discusses the value of futures research as a tool for envisioning and planning sustainable...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2007
OPA: 2007 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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68 |
Think Tank XI
Identifying Critical Issues in Designing Educational T...
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6467 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Education is seen as an important way to contribute to development. The World Bank finances educational projects with large amounts of money every year because it is convinced that improving education can help alleviate poverty by raising i...
Author: Kerstin Freudenthaler & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2011
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67 |
Think Tank XII
Sustainable Tourism: Is it better to travel or not to ...
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6466 | 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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66 |
Think Tank X
The Role of Knowledge-based Networks in Sustainable To...
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6443 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In practice, tourism organisations tend to be more serious towards their financial viability and therefore undermine long-term socio-cultural and environmental consequences. In so doing they impede their own ability and that of the destinat...
Author: Ehsan Ahmed & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2010
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65 |
Think Tank XIII
Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...
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6435 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran
Year: 2013
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64 |
Think Tank IV
Cultural Tourism as a Means for Sustainability in a Ma...
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6290 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism has become for many islands a means of social, economic and cultural development through the creation of jobs, raising standards of living and through the development of local resources for culture and heritage. Thus, many of these d...
Author: Chryso Panayidou
Year: 2004
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63 |
Think Tank XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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6135 | 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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