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OPA award
Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...
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15160 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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
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Think Tank XII
Employee Work Attitudes, Mobility and Promotional Oppo...
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15212 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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The issue of employee mobility is brought into sharp focus in times of economic and social uncertainty. Previous studies into the causes of employee mobility have investigated, among other determinants, the link between the promotional oppor...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Michael Stewart
Year: 2012
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Think Tank VI
Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...
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15257 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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
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Think Tank X
How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...
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15295 | Oct 14, 2013 |
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This case study complements recent research on FDI in tourism in African countries conducted by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These projects aim to better understand the pro-development effects of tourism...
Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Networks
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15363 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ...
Author: Seldjan Timur
Year: 2010
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Think Tank VII
Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ...
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15382 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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This article reports on an ongoing project that focuses on learning and innovation as prerequisites for sustainable tourism in a transnational environment defined by the European North Sea Region. According to Buhalis (2000: 113) providing i...
Author: Janne Liburd & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XI
CRS 2.0: Management Perspectives of Sustainable Hospit...
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15472 | Oct 14, 2013 |
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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
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Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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15473 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov
Year: 2012
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Think Tank X
Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...
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15612 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci...
Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand
Year: 2010
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Think Tank VI
Hilton Environmental Reporting as a Tool of Corporate ...
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15706 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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This paper reports on the history, criteria and procedures within Hilton Environmental Reporting, a computerized reporting tool created by Addsystems for Hilton International. The development and implementation process of the upgraded versi...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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15841 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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Recent challenges within the hospitality industry highlight a critical need for research and innovation to inform management practice. Surprisingly, however, a comprehensive review of literature has found that innovation research within the...
Author: Conrad Lashley & Barry O'Mahony
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VIII
A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...
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15879 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the last years, which led to an increasing amount of research that has analysed both the economic and social impacts of sport events. Whereas a substantial amount of ex post assessment fr...
Author: Nico Schulenkorf
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Runner Up
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Think Tank XVI
Sustainable Tourism Managment on Small Island Destinat...
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15929 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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On December 11th, 2015 climate change negotiations came to a close after the COP21 – 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Across media channels and climate protests the event was referred to as “the last chance summit”, w...
Author: Bonnie Lewtas & René Schmidpeter
Year: 2016
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OPA award
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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15994 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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This paper evaluates cultural conflicts between indigenous groups, recreation users and management agencies over the appropriate amenity use of protected areas in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It assesses both social values conflicts ...
Author: Heather Zeppel
Year: 2009
OPA: 2009 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank VII
The Community of Communicators and the Communication o...
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16094 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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In spite of the trend towards business as a key element in society and tourism, governments still play an important role in the sustainable development debate. Like any social institution, governments and related organizations do not always ...
Author: Keith Henning
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XIV
Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe...
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16418 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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The primary rationale for embedding values-based learning in tourism higher education is to engage students’ learning-to-learn and learning-to-be, rather than simply learning about a topic, such as tourism management or sustainability (Libur...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Janne J. Liburd & Jaume Guia
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VII
There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...
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16575 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h...
Author: Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...
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16581 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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"Operational definitions of tourism sustainability require details regarding what is to be sustained, for whom it is to be sustained, and the level at which it is to be sustained." This is the introductory sentence to "A Dynamic Model of Sus...
Author: Timothy Tyrrell & Robert Johnston
Year: 2007
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Think Tank V
Reflecting or Directing Perceptions? Fox Media’s Respo...
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16870 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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Disasters at tourism destinations often receive extensive reporting in the news media, particularly when one or more of their own nationals are affected. From terrorism to natural disasters, the stories of tourists and, more recently, their ...
Author: Sue Beeton
Year: 2005
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Think Tank V
Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...
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16950 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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In an era of considerable disaster and uncertainty, many destinations have been made alarmingly aware of the fickle nature of tourism. While peak industry bodies, academics and professionals advocate the introduction of risk/crisis managemen...
Author: Yetta Gurtner
Year: 2005
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