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No.	Subject	Views	Date
19	Think Tank XII Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo...	5945	Nov 06, 2013
19	Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ... Author: Tatjana Thimm Year: 2012
18	Think Tank XII Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract...	6136	Nov 06, 2013
18	This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through... Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters Year: 2012
17	Think Tank V Using Theories of Stigma Management and Impression Man...	6285	Oct 13, 2013
17	Researchers have noted that impression management is key to tourism crisis management planning and recovery (Ritchie et al., 2003:201); indeed, some have suggested that “crisis management is as much about dealing with human perceptions about... Author: Bonalyn Nelson Year: 2005
16	Think Tank XIII Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo...	6318	Nov 06, 2013
16	In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t... Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo Year: 2013
15	Think Tank X Sustainable Destination Management and the Marketing-P...	6396	Oct 13, 2013
15	A traditional and widely held view is that a sustainable approach to destination planning and management ideally requires that marketing and product development are undertaken in an integrated manner. However, if we take just two activities... Author: Tazim Jamal & Dianne Dredge Year: 2010
14	Think Tank VII The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...	6823	Oct 13, 2013
14	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
13	Think Tank VIII Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...	6848	Oct 13, 2013
13	This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ... Author: Larry Dwyer Year: 2008
12	Think Tank VI Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	7237	Oct 13, 2013
12	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
11	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	7681	Oct 13, 2013
11	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
10	Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...	7759	Oct 13, 2013
10	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
9	Think Tank IX Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...	8085	Oct 13, 2013
9	“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
8	Think Tank X Sustainable Tourism Networks	8143	Oct 13, 2013
8	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
7	Think Tank V Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...	10457	Oct 13, 2013
7	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
6	Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...	10799	Nov 06, 2013
6	“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
5	Think Tank VII There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...	11817	Oct 13, 2013
5	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
4	Think Tank V Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters	12938	Oct 13, 2013
4	Tourism is especially vulnerable to disasters and, being fragmented, often its response is difficult to initiate and coordinate. It is also information intensive and when in chaos its information needs are exacerbated. The paper aims to deve... Author: Nina Mistilis & Pauline Sheldon Year: 2005
3	Think Tank XIII Conceptualising a Framework to Analyse the Factors Inf...	19073	Nov 06, 2013
3	As the tourism industry continues to grow globally, sustainable tourism development has drawn interests among researchers, practitioners, governments and stakeholders. There are several studies on the local residents’ support for tourism, lo... Author: Samuel Folorunso Adeyinka-Ojo, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore & Vikneswaran Nair Year: 2013
2	Think Tank XII Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...	35433	Nov 06, 2013
2	Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ... Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini Year: 2012 OPA: 2012 Runner Up
1	Think Tank VIII Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...	70624	Oct 13, 2013
1	This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag... Author: David Foster Year: 2008

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