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Think Tank X
Rather Together? Network Effects among Students
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10458 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Being faced with global trends that challenge the way tourism is conducted at present (Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Roman and Scott, 2009; Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Scott, Roman and C., 2008), educators worldwide have recognized the need to ad...
Author: Florian Aubke, Ivo Ponocny & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2010
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Think Tank XV
The operational challenges of community-based tourism ...
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10856 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Community-based tourism is increasingly being developed and promoted as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries assisting local communities to meet their needs through the offering of a tourism product. The Swaziland Tourism Auth...
Author: S. E. Lukhele & K. F. Mearns
Year: 2015
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Think Tank VII
There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...
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11031 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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 XI
What Do Tourism Students Know About Sustainability and...
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11595 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The topic of sustainable tourism education has only recently started to emerge in the tourism literature. A few tourism scholars have raised concerns about the need to prepare future tourism professionals for real life planning and manageme...
Author: Blanca A. Camargo & Ulrike Gretzel
Year: 2011
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Think Tank VII
Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris...
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11767 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Communities have a variety of interest levels in tourism overall, including sustainable tourism (WTO, 2002). While we have witnessed increased awareness and discussions about sustainability and sustainable tourism, there is often a lack of s...
Author: Cynthia Messer, Ingrid Schneider & Okechukwu Ukaga
Year: 2007
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Think Tank V
Knowledge Management for Tourism Crises and Disasters
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12235 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank XIII
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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12980 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...
Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee
Year: 2013
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Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Course Structure and Associated St...
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13881 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The author has developed and delivered Sustainable Tourism (S.T.) related courses at Institutions of Higher Education in Paris, London, Helsinki, and Parnu, Estonia over the last 10 years. The focus of the presentation would be the S.T. con...
Author: James Holleran
Year: 2011
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Think Tank XIII
Tourism investment and sustainable development: A comp...
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14936 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite the growing importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for tourism in developing countries and its perceived importance for stimulating sustainable development, few empirical studies have examined its impact. This paper explored t...
Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli
Year: 2013
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Think Tank IV
Impediments to Sustainable Service Quality in Luxury H...
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15498 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In order for tourism to be sustainable in the long term, there must be continued viability of tourism related entities (Tesone 2004), that is business operations must be sustainable. Hotels are major tourism entities and play an important ro...
Author: Rayka Presbury
Year: 2004
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Think Tank XVIII
Deconstructing mass tourism with “upscale, all-year-ro...
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15608 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: local residents, seasonality, mass tourism, sustainability, tourism development
Author: Tina Šegota
Year: 2018
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Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy and Student Community Col...
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15770 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There have been increasing calls to move away from the traditional disciplinary structures and research, teaching and learning approaches that have tended to ‘tunnel’ student learning and reinforce particular worldviews towards new forms of ...
Author: Tazim Jamal, Justin Taillon & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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Think Tank XI
Broad Street Regeneration Initiative: Practical Sustai...
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15814 | Dec 19, 2013 |
Professors of tourism management teach principles of sustainable tourism to students in the classroom. Practitioners teach by implementing sustainable tourism principles in community. The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (Tourism Council) i...
Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter, Caitlin Amos & Myles Ellison
Year: 2011
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Think Tank XII
Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas...
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15855 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano...
Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XVII
New Forms of ‘Responsible Tourism’ in Refugee Camps an...
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15938 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Responsible Tourism is about “making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit”. Traveling responsibly is thus about managing travel and destinations in an environmentally and culturally responsible way and de...
Author: Jaume Guia, Sil van de Velde & Lauren Chan
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XIII
Conceptualising a Framework to Analyse the Factors Inf...
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17030 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank XVII
Overtourism. An analysis of contextual factors contrib...
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17786 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Tourism is a rapidly growing industry and has far-reaching economic, social and environmental impact. The rapid growth of tourism is a challenge for many destinations. But growth in tourist numbers is not the only reason for the many problem...
Author: Fabian Weber
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XIII
Visitors' and Residents' Perception of Tourism Impact ...
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19552 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism is one of the leading contributors to service industry in Malaysia and is gradually growing. The growth of this industry brings impact towards the environment, specifically the water quality of islands. This study views into the visi...
Author: Murugadas Ramdas & Badaruddin Mohamed
Year: 2013
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Think Tank VII
Branding Sustainability: Taking 'The Natural Step' in ...
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19693 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Translation of the concept of sustainability into practice is fraught with problems. While policy advances in all sectors of the economy have made steps in the right direction the lack of clarity in defining what is meant by 'sustainability...
Author: Alison Gill & Peter Williams
Year: 2007
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Think Tank XII
The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca...
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19750 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Nature-based tourism is a form of travel that is often believed to lend itself more to sustainable development than other tourism segments. In fact, the concept of ecotourism – defined as nature tourism that is sustainable – was developed in...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
Year: 2012
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