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No.	Subject	Views	Date
13	Think Tank XV The role of interpretation in mindfulness/mindlessness...	6114	Jul 27, 2015
13	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
12	Think Tank XV A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas...	7612	Jul 27, 2015
12	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
11	Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation	4406	Jul 27, 2015
11	Scholarship on guiding and interpretation positions formal training as a central factor in guide instruction. Guide training operates in the area that mediates between personal characteristics, attitudes and knowledge of the guides and what ... Author: Julia N. Albrecht & Trisha Dwyer Year: 2015
10	Think Tank XV Can we eat it? Exploring the cultural challenges in ma...	3827	Jul 27, 2015
10	Can we eat it? How did you stop the waves? Is there water in there? Where is the switch to turn it off? Will it eat me? These are just some of the many questions asked by visitors to uShaka Sea World in Durban, South Africa. While South Afri... Author: Judy Mann & Roy Ballantyne & Jan Packer Year: 2015
9	Think Tank XV Conserving biodiversity as tourism (including wildlife...	4228	Jul 27, 2015
9	Governments throughout Australia and elsewhere recognise that tourism is an important sector of the economy, and are encouraging its growth in a variety of ways, some more environmentally sound than others. This papers presents not the resul... Author: Ronda J Green Year: 2015
8	Think Tank XV The operational challenges of community-based tourism ...	15315	Jul 27, 2015
8	Community-based tourism is increasingly being developed and promoted as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries assisting local communities to meet their needs through the offering of a tourism product. The Swaziland Tourism Auth... Author: S. E. Lukhele & K. F. Mearns Year: 2015
7	Think Tank XV A modified value chainanalysisoftourism development in...	4681	Jul 27, 2015
7	Tourism development in a relatively unknown country is faced with various challenges. The difficulty is not only choosing an appropriate tourism development strategy but also managing it in a complex sociocultural, economic and political env... Author: Sonja Frommenwiler & Péter Varga Year: 2015 OPA: Runner Up Outstanding Paper Award
6	Think Tank XV Perceptions of local communities participation in rura...	4513	Jul 27, 2015
6	In order to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs, rural communities should be able to participate actively in all aspects of tourism, including planning and management. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the local communit... Author: Limpho Lekaota & Jarkko Saarined Year: 2015
5	Think Tank XV Rural renewal or requiem? Establishing new creative ve...	2257	Jul 27, 2015
5	During the past decades, concern for rural poverty and underdevelopment of the rural communities of Namibia has been central to government development efforts. This has further given rise to several rural development programmes. While, some ... Author: Erling Kavita Year: 2015
4	Think Tank XV Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...	4532	Jul 27, 2015
4	A number of recent incidents have focussed media attention on the phenomenon of tourist selfies, described their negative consequences for tourist destinations and identified a number of challenges for tourist site managers. This paper repor... Author: John Pearce & Gianna Moscardo Year: 2015
3	Think Tank XV Why Africans do not visit their national parks: A case...	6132	Jul 27, 2015
3	Present-day Western approaches relating to nature and natural resources management assume that humans are independent from the natural world (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). Protected areas such as Yellowstone National Park were created with ... Author: Lesego S. Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane Year: 2015
2	Think Tank XV Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...	3558	Jul 27, 2015
2	Tourism is a fragile industry with multiple stakeholders. Globally, the desire of its stakeholders is to gain more benefits and eliminate negative impacts on resources that support the industry, particularly in protected areas (PAs) such as ... Author: Richie Wandwi Year: 2015
1	Think Tank XV A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship	2915	Jul 24, 2015
1	As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; T... Author: Mingming Chen, Deborah Edward, Simon Darcy Year: 2015

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