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Think Tank X
The Role of Knowledge-based Networks in Sustainable To...
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4494 | Oct 14, 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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Think Tank X
Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network
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6682 | Oct 14, 2013 |
How the informal sectors create and share innovation in gaining competition is very important in tourism development. Commonly, informal sectors are embedded in their routines and lack of innovation capacities. Based on the case of pedicab ...
Author: Maya Damayanti
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...
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10304 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This case study complements recent research on FDI in tourism in African countries conducted by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These projects aim to better understand the pro-development effects of tourism...
Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...
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5859 | Oct 14, 2013 |
As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi...
Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism...
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10535 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ...
Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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7856 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc...
Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford
Year: 2010
OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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OPA award
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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5814 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc...
Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford
Year: 2010
OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank X
Establishing a Network of European Rural Villages for ...
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5136 | Oct 14, 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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Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy and Student Community Col...
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17209 | Oct 14, 2013 |
There have been increasing calls to move away from the traditional disciplinary structures and research, teaching and learning approaches that have tended to ‘tunnel’ student learning and reinforce particular worldviews towards new forms of ...
Author: Tazim Jamal, Justin Taillon & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Knowledge Economies, Knowledge Making, Complexity Theo...
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2375 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This paper narrates processes associated with the development of microtourism enterprises as one part of a broader organically determined sustainable development agenda in a north eastern coastal village in Bali. The paper’s narrative is co...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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5894 | Oct 14, 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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Think Tank X
Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop...
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10668 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in...
Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Networks
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8613 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ...
Author: Seldjan Timur
Year: 2010
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Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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7815 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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7614 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ...
Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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67 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8686 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...
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7213 | Oct 13, 2013 |
What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,...
Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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4088 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism, like any other endeavour, operates within the social and political domains of a community, and it is therefore likely that residents with different social and political values would hold different representations of tourism. In the ...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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8686 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I...
Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Principles Reflected in Award-Winn...
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4462 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There has been increased attention given to sustainable tourism monitoring and evaluation efforts, including corporate policies, guidelines and codes of conduct as well as certification programs (e.g., Dodds and Joppe 2005; Font and Harris ...
Author: Stuart Levy & Donald Hawkins
Year: 2009
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