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Think Tank XII
Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ...
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3446 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Bali has long been a tourist destination for Australian tourists and the Australian tourist market is an important one for Bali tourism. In the last two decades, increasingly Australian tourists have and are shifting their mobility practices...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2012
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61 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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3436 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2012
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60 |
Think Tank IV
A Framework for the Development of Social and Socio-Ec...
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3387 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the background thinking to a CRC for Sustainable Tourism project that develops social and socio-economic indicators for tourism communities. The project emanates from the Green Globe 21 Standard that incorporates indicato...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2004
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59 |
Think Tank XIV
Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ...
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3379 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Therefore, being of a different nature than sustainability pillars, political sustainability (Mihalic et al., 2012) is a requirement for sustainable tourism development (Edgell, DelMastro Allen, Smith & Swanson, 2008; UNWTO, 2004). This ...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Tina Šegota, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar, Kir Kuščer
Year: 2014
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58 |
Think Tank XV
A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...
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3317 | 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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57 |
Think Tank XIV
Hospitality of Sustainable Tourism Encounters: Experie...
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3281 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Global tourism is, at least to some extent, based upon to the vast inequalities between wealthy and impoverished (Cole & Morgan 2010, xv). Neglecting, or actively forgetting, the legacy of colonialism and the modern forms of economic and...
Author: Emily Höckert
Year: 2014
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56 |
Think Tank XIV
Influence of Assets and Capital Structure on the Perfo...
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3257 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The global economic and financial crisis could be seen as old news according to the UNWTO’s data on international tourist arrivals. Europe recorded a solid 5% growth in 2013, and Mediterranean countries performed even better with 6% growth i...
Author: Kir Kuščer & Domen Trobec
Year: 2014
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55 |
Think Tank VIII
Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Chang...
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3189 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change: the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their suggestions concerning possible actions that can be tak...
Author: Xavier Matteucci & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2008
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54 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S...
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3164 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a joint public and private sector research project entitled Mobile Digital City and Nature Walks - the development of content and software for a mobile tourism device. Focusing on sustainable tourism, marketing and innova...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2004
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53 |
Think Tank V
Effects of SARS Crisis on the Economic Contribution of...
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3158 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In a context of uncertainty over traveller security, tourism experienced two major crises in 2003- the Iraq War and SARS. While the relative impacts of a complex array of impacts on travel decisionmaking are almost impossible to dissect, thi...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth & Ray Spurr
Year: 2005
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52 |
Think Tank XII
The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...
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3104 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...
Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson
Year: 2012
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51 |
Think Tank XI
Identifying Critical Issues in Designing Educational T...
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3102 | 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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50 |
Think Tank XV
The role of interpretation in mindfulness/mindlessness...
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3085 | 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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49 |
Think Tank XII
Identifying Issues with Tourist Wayfinding: A Collabor...
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3067 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper reports on a study that was conducted in conjunction with Destination NSW, the government tourism authority for the state of New South Wales in Australia. The purpose of the study was to examine tourist wayfinding behaviour in Syd...
Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards
Year: 2012
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48 |
Think Tank IV
Environmental Attitudes of Tourism Activity Providers ...
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3014 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper looks at the issue of environmental awareness and the related topic of 'ecolabels' in a New Zealand context, adopting a supplier's perspective to gain a greater insight into the attitudes of those managing and providing tourism pr...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2004
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47 |
Think Tank V
Tourism in Small Communities: Risks and Benefits
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3000 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the findings from a Sustainable Tourism Co-operative Research Centre study into the risks associated with the social impacts of tourism on a small community in the Australian state of Tasmania. This state is known for its...
Author: Leo Jago, Margaret Deery & Liz Fredline
Year: 2005
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46 |
Think Tank XII
Unsustainable Travel Development: The Case of Aviation...
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2961 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Considering the apparent importance of low-cost aviation, and its dramatic development, there is remarkably little research done about its consequences on European mobility. A few studies have mapped the development of networks (cf. Dobruszk...
Author: Jan Henrik Nilsson
Year: 2012
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45 |
Think Tank XVIII
Visitor management in protected areas
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2946 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand
Author: Julia Nina Albrecht
Year: 2018
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44 |
Think Tank XI
An introduction of the Global Sustainable Tourism Coun...
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2944 | 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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43 |
Think Tank XIV
Stakeholder Collaboration and Contestation in Tourism ...
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2939 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Since Timor-Leste gained its independence in 2002, tourism has been promoted by both government and NGOs as a means to create jobs, build businesses, create income for national and local economics and improve regional economic imbalances (Ti...
Author: Sara Currie & Lindsay Turner
Year: 2014
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