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OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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9271 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...
Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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113 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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9307 | Dec 19, 2013 |
This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...
Author: Kitsada Tungchawal
Year: 2008
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112 |
Think Tank VII
The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...
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9331 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The internationally acclaimed Blackstone Valley Tourism Council continues to create a sustainable visitor destination using whole place-making techniques. Under its auspices, the Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development Laboratory share...
Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter & Lilly Kayamba
Year: 2007
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111 |
Think Tank VII
Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability...
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9454 | Oct 13, 2013 |
With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T...
Author: Daniel Fesenmaier
Year: 2007
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110 |
Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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9496 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2009
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109 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...
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9502 | Jun 26, 2014 |
In this study, I take up the task to work towards a theoretical and methodological framework that allows using sustainability as a threshold concept for critically evaluating the assumptions embedded in both tourism management theory and pra...
Author: José-Carlos García-Rosell
Year: 2014
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108 |
Think Tank XII
Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par...
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9527 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...
Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal
Year: 2012
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107 |
Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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9580 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper details the development, delivery and outcomes of a Masters course in Tourism Development that was delivered by the Royal University of Phnom Penh, with the assistance and support of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and t...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2005
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106 |
Think Tank IX
Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...
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9669 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper explores the concept of quality of life (QOL) as perceived by residents in tourism destinations and examines differences in perceptions of QOL among culturally different destinations. The perceived QOL of local community is an imp...
Author: Yvette Reisinger & Kwang-Soo Park
Year: 2009
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105 |
Think Tank XII
Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...
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9748 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...
Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller
Year: 2012
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104 |
Think Tank X
The Importance of Networks for Innovation in Sustainab...
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9795 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper highlights the importance of new and established networks that underpin the innovation processes in sustainable tourism. It will draw on published literature as well as case studies to describe the various types of networks that ...
Author: Jack Carlsen, Janne J. Liburd & Deborah Edwards
Year: 2010
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103 |
Think Tank X
Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...
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9939 | Oct 13, 2013 |
As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi...
Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber
Year: 2010
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102 |
Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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9943 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ...
Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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101 |
Think Tank IX
Malay Small Family Business Values
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9981 | Dec 19, 2013 |
In Malaysia approximately 90% of the businesses are categorized as small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The majority of these small businesses are family owned and make a significant contribution to Malaysian Gross Domestic Product. The prev...
Author: Askiah Jamaluddin & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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100 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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9985 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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99 |
Think Tank V
Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management
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10009 | Dec 14, 2013 |
As a contribution to BEST Education Network ThinkTank V, Managing Riskand Crisis for Sustainable Tourism, the following paper has been prepared in two parts. The first part of the paper focuses on the idea that an appropriate model can be de...
Author: Scott K. Cunliffe
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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98 |
Think Tank VIII
Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...
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10072 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive infrastructure and client expectations of luxury will mean that their carbon footprint and water usage is likely to exceed significantly that of average urban households. Often located in coastal or riverine settings, they are vuln...
Author: Charles Arcodia & Chantal Dickson
Year: 2008
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97 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Travel & Tourism B...
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10086 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses some economic, social, and environmental “hard issues” for the travel and tourism (T&T) industry with the aim of shedding some light on little discussed aspects of industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) with ...
Author: David Stipanuk
Year: 2006
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96 |
OPA award
Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...
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10110 | Dec 01, 2013 |
Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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95 |
Think Tank X
The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...
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10131 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc...
Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford
Year: 2010
OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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