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Can Tourism Businesses Foster Better Inclusion for Peo...
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432 | 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
Volunteering and donations for biodiversity conservati...
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472 | 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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519 | 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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539 | 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
The moderating role of values in planned behaviour: th...
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545 | 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 XVII
Finding and Fostering Our Future Tourism Leaders: Unde...
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545 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
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408 |
Think Tank XVII
Lack of transparency - a barrier for the diffusion of ...
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611 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVI
Examining Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism: ...
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626 | 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
The Influences of Hotel Contexts on Tourist Behaviour....
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664 | 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
Reaching the hard to reach: CSR and employee engagemen...
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678 | 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
United we stand, divided we fall: Strategies for engag...
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720 | 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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403 |
Think Tank XVI
Empowering communities and enabling conservation: Revi...
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728 | 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
Spirituality and corporate social responsibility in to...
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752 | 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
Polar bears, Climate Change, CSR and Sustainable Tourism
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770 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Jeremy Pearce
Year: 2016
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Think Tank XIX
Organizational drivers of sustainable behaviour and it...
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804 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: Sustainability, organizational capabilities, entrepreneurial orientation, customer satisfaction, financial performance Page: 79-85 Organizational drivers of sustainable behaviour and its consequences for customer satisfaction and ...
Author: Julia Koch, Sven-Olaf Gerdt, and Gerhard Schewe
Year: 2019
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Think Tank XIX
Fun with Fungi in the Forest: Making Tourist Experienc...
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808 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: sustainable tourist experiences, interpretation, stories, rainforest Page: 58-74 Fun with Fungi in the Forest.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table N...
Author: Karen Hughes and Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2019
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Think Tank XVI
Rural communities’ participation in the planning and m...
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861 | 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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871 | 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
Influencing sustainability through engagement in polic...
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872 | 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 XIX
Perceptions of sustainability practices in hospitality...
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874 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: Sustainability, Sustainable Hospitality, Sustainability Measures, Sustainable Experience, Environmental Psychology, Forced Choice Assessment Pages: 52-57 Perceptions of sustainability practices in hospitality.pdf Normal 0 false fa...
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Julia Koch, Elisa Wagner and Gerhard Schewe
Year: 2019
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