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Think Tank XVI
Can Tourism Businesses Foster Better Inclusion for Peo...
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630 | Jul 02, 2016 |
It is difficult to deny that despite its increased popularity, the concept of social entrepreneurship has not received a clearer understanding in a theoretical context. Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, and Shulman (2009) list 20 definitions of s...
Author: Kristof Tomej
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
The moderating role of values in planned behaviour: th...
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678 | Jul 02, 2016 |
In the past five years, we (a group of researchers from the Leeds Becket University and the Open University of Catalonia) have been working on different studies about the CSR motivations, barriers and practices in tourism small and medium e...
Author: Lluís Garay, Xavier Font & August Francesc Corrons
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Volunteering and donations for biodiversity conservati...
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690 | Jul 02, 2016 |
In 2010, the newly elected government of New Zealand, of neo-liberal orientation, has adopted its Business Growth Agenda. This has been implemented through a series of legal, policy and organizational changes, affecting the governance of th...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Germany – Ove...
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728 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Certification schemes for sustainable tourism can be seen as a key voluntary instrument to measure, verify and communicate the CSR management and performance of tourism businesses. Today a large number of such schemes can be found around th...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
eTraining for Sustainable Tourism: Investing in Skills...
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735 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This proposed presentation examines the current state of “eTraining” opportunities (e.g. distance learning programs, online courses, live seminars) supporting professional skills development for tourism professionals, with a particular focu...
Author: Ayako Ezaki
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Examining Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism: ...
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812 | Jul 02, 2016 |
One of the biggest challenges facing the tourism industry and policy makers is the emerging and fast growing ‘sharing economy’. Keeping abreast of this, disruptive but potentially transformative phenomenon has been challenging for industry,...
Author: Stephen Wearing & Kevin Lyons
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Reaching the hard to reach: CSR and employee engagemen...
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902 | Jul 02, 2016 |
As the duties and behaviour of organizations within the tourism industry evolve to accommodate expectations of pro-sustainable business change, so too does the role and responsibility of employees within these organisations. As key actors i...
Author: Kelsy Hejjas, Caroline Scarles & Graham Miller
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Spirituality and corporate social responsibility in to...
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942 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This ongoing study investigates the role of spirituality for corporate social responsibility (CSR) by tourism businesses in lesser developed countries and the implications this has at the destination level. While much of the world’s tourism...
Author: Alexandra Law, Putu Indah Rahmawati & Terry De Lacy
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
United we stand, divided we fall: Strategies for engag...
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945 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Many tourism corporate responsibility programs require the support and/or compliance of guests or customers, yet little attention has been paid to the design of strategies to encourage this compliance. Research in the areas of tourist inter...
Author: Karen Hughes & Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2016
OPA: 2016 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank XVI
The Influences of Hotel Contexts on Tourist Behaviour....
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966 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Sustainability deals with the relation between people and their environment. The configuration of this connection and the communication between the two are decisive when talking about a socially acceptable, ecologically compatible and econo...
Author: Stefan Raich
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Polar bears, Climate Change, CSR and Sustainable Tourism
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990 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Jeremy Pearce
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Empowering communities and enabling conservation: Revi...
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1034 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The Africa Foundation a non-profit organization was founded in 1992 when Conservation Corporation Africa (since renamed and rebranded to &Beyond) was founded in South Africa. A central principle of the Conservation Corporation, safari l...
Author: Kevin Mearns
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Influencing sustainability through engagement in polic...
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1096 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The ability of businesses to influence the sustainability of tourism development is generally examined from two standpoints: the regulatory frameworks requiring particular actions with respect to how business is carried out, or to clients; ...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Rural communities’ participation in the planning and m...
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1123 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Limpho Lekaota
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Modern De...
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1134 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued expansion; it is considered one of the fastest growing economy sectors in the world. Modern tourism is closely associated to development of the host-community and its surroundings. Coopera...
Author: Gabriela Estrella, Myrta Zemp & Urs Wagenseil
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Responsible High Performance Sport Travel – Opportunit...
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1188 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Decolonising tourism education through Indigenisation:...
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1250 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Businesses committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are guided by policy that focuses on the integration of social and environmental concerns in all aspects of business strategy and practice (Lund-Durlacher, 2015). This paper cons...
Author: Tamara Young & Amy Maguire
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
A study of innovation in the making CARMACAL and the D...
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1267 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Harald Buijtendijk, Jorine Vermeer & Juultje Blom
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
In Search of a New Mindset to Underpin Tourism Develop...
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1309 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Despite widespread recognition of the importance of all tourism stakeholders adopting sustainability attitudes and practices, with a huge descriptive and prescriptive literature highlighting ‘best practice’, things seem to be getting worse....
Author: Larry Dwyer & Verity Anne Greenwood
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XVI
Challenges of the development of sustainable products ...
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1329 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Tourism destinations have a responsibility to preserve their own mainstay. Sustainable product development can aid the longevity of a destination by supporting local environmental, social and economic aspects. This, however, requires a coord...
Author: Fabian Weber & Barbara Taufer
Year: 2016
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