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Key words: sustainable tourist experiences, interpretation, stories, rainforest Page: 58-74Fun with Fungi in the Forest.pdf I want to
Page: 58-74Fun with Fungi in the Forest.pdf I want to
Fun with Fungi in the Forest.pdf I want to
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
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
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
The hospitality and tourism industry is facing a serious skilled manpower shortage globally, and the best way to meet the manpower needs of the industry is through training and education. The shortage of skilled talent is a global issue in t...
Author: Grace K.S. Ho & Rob Law
Year: 2017
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
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
Throughout the last two decades, the tourism industry has changed due to the revolutionary development in the realm of information and communication technologies (ICT) (Amaro & Duate, 2013; Law et al., 2004; Minghetti & Buhalis, 2010...
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe
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
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
OPA: 2016 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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
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; ...
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Author: Limpho Lekaota
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
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
Tourism is the fourth largest economic contributor globally and outperforms the growth of the world economy (United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 2013). But tourism growth comes at a cost. Not surprisingly, therefore, tourism i...
Author: Sara Dolnicar & Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar & Bettina Grun
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
Author: Jeremy Pearce
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) to manage environmental, social and economic impacts has been widely researched in tourism. However, there is criticism of the lack of non-western, local perspectives in tourism planning and management,...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Tamara Young & Mark Harvey
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
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Author: Harald Buijtendijk, Jorine Vermeer & Juultje Blom
