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Think Tank XVII
Finding and Fostering Our Future Tourism Leaders: Unde...
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491 | 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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Think Tank XVII
Lack of transparency - a barrier for the diffusion of ...
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545 | 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 XVII
A Structural Model Predicting Tourists Behavioural Int...
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1028 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The contribution of the tourism sector towards the development of host nations is undeniable in that it provides several benefits such as creation of employment, generation of added value and tax revenue, and boosting of inward foreign direc...
Author: Robin Nunkoo & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Boopen Seetanah & Robin Sannassee
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Making hotel guests voluntarily waive daily room cleaning
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1031 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Managing open rock art sites for tourism, in the centr...
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1071 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Rock art is found across the world and is a unique heritage which is divided into three main categories; rock paintings (pictographs), rock engravings, (petroglyphs), and geoglyphs (natural objects used as designs) (Anati, 1993; Clottes, 199...
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Investigating the relationship between FDI and Tourism...
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1242 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper employs a dynamic time series econometrics framework, namely a vector error correction model (VECM), to investigate the link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourist arrivals in Mauritius for the period 1980-2015. The r...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, & Boopen Seetanah
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Enclave tourism: a friend or a foe for small island de...
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1267 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Earlier studies have stimulated much debate regarding enclave tourism development in developing countries (Britton 1982). However, it is increasingly being acknowledged that despite criticisms, all forms of tourism have the potential to cont...
Author: Perunjodi Naidoo
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Australian Indigenous Tourism: Integration of knowledg...
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1415 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Many Australian tourism ventures today promote Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge (AIBK) (Pert, Ens, Locke, Clarke, Packer & Turpin, 2015) through bush-tucker tours, interpretive displays in cultural centres, arts and crafts, et...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Mark Harvey & Ian D. Clark & Tamara Young
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Responsible tourism and innovation practices by touris...
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1420 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Responsible tourism incorporates economic, environmental and social imperatives in accordance with ‘sustainable tourism’ notions (Booyens & Rogerson, 2016a). This research argues that tourism firms need to innovate in order to be economi...
Author: Irma Booyens and Christian M. Rogerson
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Collaborative knowledge production development and act...
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1595 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Increasingly, literature has depicted food tourism as a powerful contributor to the ‘triple bottom line’ of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in rural communities (e.g. Sidali et al., 2015; Sims, 2009; Everret & Aitchson...
Author: Yukari Higuchi & Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
A system thinking approach towards promoting sustainab...
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1643 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and developing diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors worldwide. Every year the tourism industry has experienced steady growth. International tourist a...
Author: Toshima Makoondlall-Chadee, Chandradeo Bokhoree, Deepa Sumputh
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Providing sustainable innovations in the hospitality i...
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1765 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Sustainability and eco-friendliness is gaining considerable attention within the hotel industry (Chen, Sloan & Legrand, 2009; Kim & Han, 2010). There has been a growing awareness of the environmental and social influence of hotel ope...
Author: Julia Zimmermann & Matthias Straub
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
A meta-analysis of the tourism and economic growth nexus
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1852 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The existing literature is fraught with empirical studies delineating the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth. However, the results are at best inconclusive. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to investigate the unde...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Robin Nunkoo & Raja Vinesh Sannassee & Paul Georges Warren Moraghen & Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Reducing economic leakages from tourism: A value chain...
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1974 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The research is funded by the Centre for the Development of Enterprise and with the guidance of the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD. The authors would like to thank Pablo LoMoro at the International Trade Centre for his considerable sup...
Author: Andrew Rylance & Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank XVII
E-Mobility as an Innovation for a Sustainable Destinat...
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1980 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The project "E-Destination” funded by Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) aims to show whether and in what form electro-mobility can play a bigger role regarding tourism in the rural region of Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee), Baden-...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Investigating the impact of climate change on the tour...
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2083 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The tourism sector is vital for the development of small island developing states. However, climate change can negatively impact on tourism demand and affect these economies both on the economic and social level. The purpose of this study is...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, Boopen Seetanah, Robin Sannassee & Robin Nunkoo
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Travelers Satisfaction with Dimensions of Tourist Tert...
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2297 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Loyalty of customers is recognized as a key ingredient for the success of organisations. A 5% increase in customer retention has been linked to 85% increase in profits (Reichfield and Sasser, 1990). As noted by Assael (1984), long term organ...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Kesseven Padachi
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Transit Tours for Airport Passengers – Issues and Chal...
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2648 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Since the advent of liberalisation of the aviation industry in the late 1970s, many countries have adopted the liberal policy in air transport and entered bilateral air service agreements, often referred to as “open skies agreements” (OSAs),...
Author: Priscilla Chau Min Poon
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ...
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3739 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper presents research commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s African Natural Resources Center (ANRC), that aimed to to identify and summarise existing monitoring data being gathered by national tourism authorities and i...
Author: Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with th...
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4162 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The emergence of information technology has a profound impact on tourism industry. Today, visitors are more inclined to have searched the Internet to gain more pre-tour knowledge for the destinations than before. The advances of the various ...
Author: Daisy Suk-fong FUNG
Year: 2017
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