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No.	Subject	Views	Date
94	Think Tank XVII Residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism in Mauri...	7994	Aug 17, 2017
94	This paper examines residents' perception on sustainable tourism in Mauritius. 500 surveys were elaborated and circulated to the respondents. This research examines the connections between the demographic variables gender, age, instruction l... Author: Bhavish Jugurnath & Roucheet Bissessur & Youvish Ramjattan & Devendra Bissessur Year: 2017
93	Think Tank X The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...	8005	Oct 14, 2013
93	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
92	Think Tank IX Malay Small Family Business Values	8130	Dec 19, 2013
92	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
91	Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...	8171	Oct 13, 2013
91	This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ... Author: Miha Bratec Year: 2008
90	OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?	8174	Nov 06, 2013
90	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
89	Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...	8181	Dec 19, 2013
89	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
88	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	8237	Oct 13, 2013
88	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
87	Think Tank XII Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun...	8272	Nov 06, 2013
87	This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ... Author: Julia Albrecht Year: 2012
86	Think Tank IX Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...	8301	Oct 13, 2013
86	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
85	OPA award Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...	8342	Dec 01, 2013
85	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
84	Think Tank VI Testing Clarkson’s Typical Corporate and Stakeholder I...	8367	Oct 13, 2013
84	In today’s world of growing concern over the social and environmental effect of tourism, the responsibility for the future of our society is moving from simply relying on our political leaders and interest groups towards the concept that cor... Author: Catrina Papaleo & Sue Beeton Year: 2006
83	Think Tank VI The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....	8393	Oct 13, 2013
83	This paper reports on an element of an ongoing research project undertaken since 1999 in relation to the effects of film-induced tourism on a small community based in North Yorkshire, England, namely Goathland. Goathland is better known to ... Author: Sue Beeton Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Runner Up
82	Think Tank VII Environmentally Sustainable Practices of Victorian Tou...	8447	Oct 13, 2013
82	Environmental sustainability has been a growing concern in our society for the past twenty years, and is a primary issue of many leaders of the tourism industry. In spite of the many efforts to encourage and/or enforce environmentally sound ... Author: Sue Beeton, Sue Bergin-Seers & Christine Lee Year: 2007
81	Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...	8470	Oct 13, 2013
81	A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Tec... Author: Larry Dwyer, Deborah Edwards, Nina Mistilis, & Carolina Roman Year: 2007
80	Think Tank XI CRS 2.0: Management Perspectives of Sustainable Hospit...	8636	Oct 14, 2013
80	In recent years, hotel companies have recognized the importance of engaging in responsible business practices as they relate to stakeholders including employees, guests, and the communities in which their properties are located. Accordingly... Author: Stuart E. Levy & Sun-Young Park Year: 2011
79	Think Tank IX Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...	8695	Oct 13, 2013
79	“Courchevel is first and foremost one among the founding elements of the huge touristic complex of les Trois Vallées in France. Linked to the neighbouring Allues and Belleville valleys by a 3,000 acres network area of regularly packed and ma... Author: Daniel Tixier Year: 2009
78	Think Tank VII The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...	8720	Oct 13, 2013
78	"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character... Author: Alan A. Lew Year: 2007
77	Think Tank IX Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...	8737	Oct 13, 2013
77	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
76	Think Tank V Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management	8742	Dec 14, 2013
76	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
75	Think Tank XII Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...	8752	Nov 06, 2013
75	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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