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Think Tank XIV
Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism?
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11441 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Slow travel as a research field has increased in popularity in the last decade. The concept started to gain attention through online communities, and tourism researchers have become interested in the possible benefits that slow travel may ha...
Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller
Year: 2014
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Interven...
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11452 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Implicit in notions of sustainable development is an holistic triple bottom line approach that seeks to preserve essential ecological processes, protect human heritage and biodiversity and foster inter and intra-generational equity whilst r...
Author: David Wood & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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72 |
OPA award
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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11484 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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 V
Political Instability and its Effects on Tourism
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11586 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism today is second only to oil as the world’s leading export commodity, accounting for global earnings of more than $300 billion, or nearly 25 per cent of total world GNP (Poirier 2000, p30, cited in Dieke, 2000). Over the last two deca...
Author: Sarah JR Ryu
Year: 2005
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Think Tank VIII
Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...
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11648 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ...
Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu
Year: 2008
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Think Tank XVII
Residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism in Mauri...
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11792 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
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Think Tank X
How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...
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11813 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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 VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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12059 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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66 |
Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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12153 | Nov 06, 2013 |
“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 VIII
A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...
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12175 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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64 |
Think Tank VII
Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...
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12227 | Oct 13, 2013 |
"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 X
The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism...
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12321 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ...
Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll
Year: 2010
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Think Tank XVII
Innovation riving structural power changes in peripher...
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12403 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Traditionally, tourism development in small island destinations has been explained through the lens of the Dependency Theory (Bianchi, 2002; Britton, 1982; Brown & Hall, 2000; Buhalis, 1999; Butler, 1993; Hall, 1994; Harrison, 2001; Weav...
Author: Chaya Hurnath
Year: 2017
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OPA award
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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12494 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank XIV
Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe...
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12566 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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 IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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12643 | 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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Think Tank VII
Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ...
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12652 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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57 |
Think Tank X
Drowning with Tourism? Stakeholder Perspectives from T...
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12888 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Climate change and its impacts on nations, regions and populations as well as its anthropogenic causes have become one of the prevailing issues of global society and, hence, subject to ongoing debates among e.g. the natural, political and s...
Author: Anna Huebner
Year: 2010
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56 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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13026 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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55 |
Think Tank X
Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop...
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13076 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in...
Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter
Year: 2010
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