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No.	Subject	Views	Date
74	Think Tank IX Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...	6673	Oct 13, 2013
74	What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,... Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth Year: 2009
73	Think Tank VIII Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...	6750	Oct 13, 2013
73	Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated... Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar Year: 2008
72	Think Tank IX Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...	6903	Oct 13, 2013
72	This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I... Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul Year: 2009
71	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	6921	Oct 13, 2013
71	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
70	Think Tank XV Perceptions of the business community on the sustainab...	6968	Jul 27, 2015
70	The holiday property market has seen a genuine boom in the last years with second homes being an integral part of today’s tourism and an important pillar in the accommodation sector. Today second homes are seen as an enabler for destination ... Author: Anita Zehrer Year: 2015
69	Think Tank V Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management	7061	Dec 14, 2013
69	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
68	Think Tank VII The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...	7088	Oct 13, 2013
68	"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
67	Think Tank IX How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...	7105	Oct 13, 2013
67	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
66	Think Tank X The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...	7134	Oct 13, 2013
66	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
65	OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?	7241	Nov 06, 2013
65	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
64	Think Tank VI The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....	7247	Oct 13, 2013
64	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
63	OPA award Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...	7259	Dec 01, 2013
63	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
62	Think Tank IX Malay Small Family Business Values	7408	Dec 19, 2013
62	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
61	Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...	7423	Dec 19, 2013
61	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
60	Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...	7432	Oct 13, 2013
60	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
59	Think Tank IX Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...	7436	Oct 13, 2013
59	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
58	Think Tank XII Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...	7492	Nov 06, 2013
58	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
57	Think Tank IX Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...	7628	Oct 13, 2013
57	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
56	Think Tank XI Education as a Visitor Management Technique in Remote ...	7678	Oct 14, 2013
56	Remote protected areas are often vulnerable to impacts by visitors. This is generally due to the dual implications of remoteness: a) the area's ecosystems remaining largely undisturbed by human activity (Carey, Dudley and Stolton, 2000) and... Author: Christian Schott Year: 2011
55	Think Tank IX Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...	7729	Oct 13, 2013
55	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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