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Author : Gabriela Estrella, Myrta Zemp & Urs Wagenseil
Year : 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. Cooperation is the key to reach a common goal in the tourism industry that is highly fragmented.  Everyone gains from properly managed tourism. Investigating the linkages between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) offer the possibility of new perspectives on the management of sustainable tourism. The purpose of this study is to investigate how DMOs consider CSR at the moment to develop a tourism destination. Specifically, the first part of this research used document analysis technique to find out the CSR actual status in DMOs official websites and public documentation. Additionally, expert interviews were conducted in order to explore and validate the results obtained in the first part of the research. Results show that CSR in the context of DMOs and tourism destination is still in its infancy. However, the role of DMOs as leaders of CSR and sustainable practices has been widely identified and it is expected to enhance positively the industry. Nowadays DMOs tasks and responsibilities are beyond marketing. This implies that DMOs need to be prepare to face new management challenges, to success DMOs are advised to engage themselves in CSR practices but mainly they need to assume the leadership position to encourage the implementation of CSR in the whole destination.

List of Articles
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43 Think Tank XVI Can Tourism Businesses Foster Better Inclusion for Peo... file 476 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 

42 Think Tank XVI Volunteering and donations for biodiversity conservati... file 523 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 

41 Think Tank XVI Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Germany – Ove... file 567 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 

40 Think Tank XVI eTraining for Sustainable Tourism: Investing in Skills... file 578 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 

39 Think Tank XVI The moderating role of values in planned behaviour: th... file 589 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 

38 Think Tank XVI Examining Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism: ... file 669 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 

37 Think Tank XVI Reaching the hard to reach: CSR and employee engagemen... file 732 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 

36 Think Tank XVI The Influences of Hotel Contexts on Tourist Behaviour.... file 749 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 

35 Think Tank XVI United we stand, divided we fall: Strategies for engag... file 769 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 

34 Think Tank XVI Empowering communities and enabling conservation: Revi... file 792 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 

33 Think Tank XVI Spirituality and corporate social responsibility in to... file 794 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 

32 Think Tank XVI Polar bears, Climate Change, CSR and Sustainable Tourism 815 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Jeremy Pearce 

Year: 2016 

31 Think Tank XVI Rural communities’ participation in the planning and m... file 918 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Limpho Lekaota 

Year: 2016 

» Think Tank XVI Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Modern De... file 926 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 

29 Think Tank XVI Influencing sustainability through engagement in polic... file 932 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 

28 Think Tank XVI Responsible High Performance Sport Travel – Opportunit... file 986 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel 

Year: 2016 

27 Think Tank XVI Decolonising tourism education through Indigenisation:... file 1096 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 

26 Think Tank XVI A study of innovation in the making CARMACAL and the D... file 1115 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Harald Buijtendijk, Jorine Vermeer & Juultje Blom 

Year: 2016 

25 Think Tank XVI CSR and tourism practices in communities near mines: A... file 1133 Jul 02, 2016

There has always been a disparity between active mining and tourism mainly due to the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mines on both the adjacent resident communities and the areas taken up by the mining operation. Although herit...

Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels 

Year: 2016 

24 Think Tank XVI In Search of a New Mindset to Underpin Tourism Develop... file 1156 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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