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Author : B. Bynum Boley
School/Work Place : Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Contact : bbboley@vt.edu
Year : 2012

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 Climate Change and Climate Policy,” and the recent debates pertaining to “sustainable tourism and flying” on the tourism list serve ‘TRINET’. Recent statistics recognize tourism as contributing 5% of all global CO2 emissions and 14% of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (UNWTO-UNEP-WMO, 2008). With projections of around 5% annual growth in air travel (Airbus, 2004; Boeing; 2005), Scott, Peeters, and Gössling (2010) predict that tourism could become the largest world contributor to GHG emissions if other leading industries take the initiative to reduce their GHG emissions and the tourism industry does not.


List of Articles
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15 Think Tank XII Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T... file 3898 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 

14 Think Tank XII Barriers and Benefits to Professional Development: Per... file 34126 Nov 06, 2013

This paper builds upon the body of literature on tourism mobilities by considering supply-side perspectives as it relates to workforce planning and preparation. Research into tourism destination competitiveness has suggested that for a touri...

Author: Kevin Lyons, Joanne Hanley & Tamara Young 

Year: 2012 

13 Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo... file 10806 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...

Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov 

Year: 2012 

12 Think Tank XII Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai... file 4213 Nov 06, 2013

Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...

Author: Attama Nilnoppkun 

Year: 2012 

11 Think Tank XII Unsustainable Travel Development: The Case of Aviation... file 3678 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 

10 Think Tank XII A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport file 6682 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 

9 Think Tank XII Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 3889 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

8 Think Tank XII Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:... file 5806 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 

7 Think Tank XII Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme... file 5482 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 

6 Think Tank XII Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas... file 16260 Nov 06, 2013

Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano...

Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul 

Year: 2012 

5 Think Tank XII The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca... file 20262 Nov 06, 2013

Nature-based tourism is a form of travel that is often believed to lend itself more to sustainable development than other tourism segments. In fact, the concept of ecotourism – defined as nature tourism that is sustainable – was developed in...

Author: Wolfgang Strasdas 

Year: 2012 

4 Think Tank XII Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo... file 5948 Nov 06, 2013

Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ...

Author: Tatjana Thimm 

Year: 2012 

3 Think Tank XII Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom... file 8320 Nov 06, 2013

Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...

Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller 

Year: 2012 

2 Think Tank XII Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo... file 4935 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 

1 Think Tank XII Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ... file 6864 Nov 06, 2013

It is nearing the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) (United Nations, 2011), an awareness raising campaign which “seeks to mobilize the educational resources of the world to help create a mo...

Author: Erica Wilson, Tania von der Heidt, Geoffrey Lamberton & Dayle Morrison 

Year: 2012 

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