234 |
Think Tank X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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4034 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Rapid growth in resort areas, combined with environmental and market stresses, has recently created concern amongst resort decision-makers about future paths of development. Growth models have operated effectively in maintaining resort comp...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2010
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233 |
Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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4050 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...
Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2007
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232 |
Think Tank IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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4073 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism, like any other endeavour, operates within the social and political domains of a community, and it is therefore likely that residents with different social and political values would hold different representations of tourism. In the ...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2009
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231 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S...
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4076 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a joint public and private sector research project entitled Mobile Digital City and Nature Walks - the development of content and software for a mobile tourism device. Focusing on sustainable tourism, marketing and innova...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2004
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230 |
Think Tank VII
A Community of Heroes
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4084 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...
Author: Regina Binder
Year: 2007
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229 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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4084 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2012
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228 |
Think Tank XIII
City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V...
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4148 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The level of interest and participation in voluntourism has progressively become a major sector in contemporary tourism. The notion of combining a novel and pleasurable tourism experience with the fulfillment of contributing a worthwhile cau...
Author: Eunice Tan
Year: 2013
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227 |
Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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4152 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Surf beach drowning is an example of a tourist injury problem in Australia. In this paper, a process is outlined to identify and tease out the roles and relationships among causal risk factors, markers of risk, and components of risk exposur...
Author: Damian Morgan
Year: 2005
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226 |
Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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4188 | Nov 06, 2013 |
As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King
Year: 2012
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225 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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4243 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This abstract intends to present QUSS – an integrated Management System for Quality, Sustainability and Safety in theory and practice. QUSS was invented by the NGO Ecocamping and is thus basically applied on camp sites in Europe with focus ...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2011
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224 |
Think Tank XVII
The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with th...
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4253 | 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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223 |
Think Tank XVIII
Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi...
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4267 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management
Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub
Year: 2018
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222 |
Think Tank X
Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a...
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4268 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses the contemporary meeting of three large-scale systems or processes - Agenda 21, the Internet and globalization - and what this historical conjunction means for networking sustainable tourism development. It is important...
Author: Gordon Sillence & Herbert Hamele
Year: 2010
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221 |
Think Tank V
Ecolabels and Green Globe 21: Awareness and Consumer A...
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4278 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A case in point is New Zealand, where tourism has long been recognised as an important economic force; this is aptly illustrated by the sector’s contribution of 9.6% to the country’s GDP in 2003 (TRCNZ, 2005). The resource at the heart of mu...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2005
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220 |
Think Tank XIV
Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw...
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4336 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...
Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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219 |
Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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4341 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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218 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among...
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4348 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb...
Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger
Year: 2015
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217 |
Think Tank IV
Cultural Tourism as a Means for Sustainability in a Ma...
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4407 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism has become for many islands a means of social, economic and cultural development through the creation of jobs, raising standards of living and through the development of local resources for culture and heritage. Thus, many of these d...
Author: Chryso Panayidou
Year: 2004
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216 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Principles Reflected in Award-Winn...
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4446 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There has been increased attention given to sustainable tourism monitoring and evaluation efforts, including corporate policies, guidelines and codes of conduct as well as certification programs (e.g., Dodds and Joppe 2005; Font and Harris ...
Author: Stuart Levy & Donald Hawkins
Year: 2009
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215 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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4459 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...
Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin
Year: 2012
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