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Think Tank XVII
Responsible tourism and innovation practices by touris...
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1320 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Responsible tourism incorporates economic, environmental and social imperatives in accordance with ‘sustainable tourism’ notions (Booyens & Rogerson, 2016a). This research argues that tourism firms need to innovate in order to be economi...
Author: Irma Booyens and Christian M. Rogerson
Year: 2017
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353 |
Think Tank XV
Why Africans do not visit their national parks: A case...
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1324 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Present-day Western approaches relating to nature and natural resources management assume that humans are independent from the natural world (Pierotti & Wildcat, 2000). Protected areas such as Yellowstone National Park were created with ...
Author: Lesego S. Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane
Year: 2015
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352 |
Think Tank XV
A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship
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1332 | Jul 24, 2015 |
As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; T...
Author: Mingming Chen, Deborah Edward, Simon Darcy
Year: 2015
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351 |
Think Tank XVI
Assessing the sustainability reporting of a JSE compan...
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1339 | Jul 02, 2016 |
The world is changing into a place where broader spectra of responsibilities are now being embraced. A significant realisation has grown throughout the world that the Earth’s natural resources are scarce. Industrialisation and economic grow...
Author: Candice Hunter & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2016
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350 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...
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1358 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Firms are nowadays facing growing pressure from governments and environmental institutions to reduce their ecological footprint. While a growing number of empirical studies have examined the impact of green management policies on firms’ fina...
Author: Christelle Cortese & Mondher Sahli
Year: 2015
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349 |
Think Tank XVIII
Persuasive communication: an experiment on hotel guest...
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1441 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: personal values, smart water-saving technology, community-based social marketing, science communication, pro-environmental behaviour, field experiment.
Author: Pablo Pereira-Doel, Xavier Font & Candice Howarth
Year: 2018
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348 |
Think Tank V
Response Strategies to Climate Change Impacts
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1501 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This study addresses the threat of climate change impacts on the sustainability of the economic benefits for, and environmental assets of, tourism destinations. It discusses the challenges for both the demand and supply side of tourism to fo...
Author: Nancy Scanlon
Year: 2005
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347 |
Think Tank XVII
Collaborative knowledge production development and act...
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1509 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Increasingly, literature has depicted food tourism as a powerful contributor to the ‘triple bottom line’ of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in rural communities (e.g. Sidali et al., 2015; Sims, 2009; Everret & Aitchson...
Author: Yukari Higuchi & Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Year: 2017
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346 |
Think Tank XVII
A system thinking approach towards promoting sustainab...
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1526 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and developing diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors worldwide. Every year the tourism industry has experienced steady growth. International tourist a...
Author: Toshima Makoondlall-Chadee, Chandradeo Bokhoree, Deepa Sumputh
Year: 2017
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345 |
Think Tank X
How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte...
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1561 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Meaning is one of the most elusive and ubiquitous properties of tourism spaces. This paper analyses the ambiguity of meaning in the materiality of tourism sustainability. Sustainable development and its three interrelated principles of holi...
Author: Neil M. Walsh
Year: 2010
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344 |
Think Tank XIX
Changes in volunteerism perception: Results from an In...
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1566 | Oct 23, 2019 |
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Author: Rachelle Wilson, Pavlina Latkova, Aiko Yoshino and Emilyn Sheffield
Year: 2019
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343 |
Think Tank XVIII
Defining Small Accommodation Establishments: employing...
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1646 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: small accommodation, sustainable tourism, business models
Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2018
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342 |
Think Tank XVI
Crowdsourcing – New Ways of an efficient Corporate Soc...
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1657 | Jul 02, 2016 |
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) play a more and more crucial role in the development of hotel business. A study of the French hotel company Accor shows, that sustainability is a determining factor of ...
Author: Matthias Straub
Year: 2016
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341 |
Think Tank XVII
Providing sustainable innovations in the hospitality i...
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1663 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Sustainability and eco-friendliness is gaining considerable attention within the hotel industry (Chen, Sloan & Legrand, 2009; Kim & Han, 2010). There has been a growing awareness of the environmental and social influence of hotel ope...
Author: Julia Zimmermann & Matthias Straub
Year: 2017
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340 |
Think Tank XV
The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat...
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1706 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Over the last decades, social enterprises have increasingly gained importance in the travel and tourism industry and they are revolutionizing the way business is done. Instead of maximizing profits for external shareholders, a social enterpr...
Author: Sebastian Ferrari & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2015
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339 |
Think Tank XVII
A meta-analysis of the tourism and economic growth nexus
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1753 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The existing literature is fraught with empirical studies delineating the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth. However, the results are at best inconclusive. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to investigate the unde...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Robin Nunkoo & Raja Vinesh Sannassee & Paul Georges Warren Moraghen & Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur
Year: 2017
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338 |
Think Tank XV
Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...
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1805 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourism is a fragile industry with multiple stakeholders. Globally, the desire of its stakeholders is to gain more benefits and eliminate negative impacts on resources that support the industry, particularly in protected areas (PAs) such as ...
Author: Richie Wandwi
Year: 2015
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337 |
Think Tank XVIII
Indigenous destination development: Nudging key player...
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1818 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Key players, sustainable tourism impact, tourism planning
Author: Astrid Frischknecht, Celiane Camargo-Borges & Celeste Wilderom
Year: 2018
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336 |
Think Tank XVI
Adoption and diffusion of sustainability in tourism an...
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1829 | Jul 02, 2016 |
This study explores why family firms adopt social and ecological policies that go beyond regulations, which includes hard (e.g., law; Berrone et al., 2010) or soft (e.g., certificates; Rivera, 2002) regulations. To accomplish this, the stud...
Author: Johanna Zanon, Andreas Kallmuenzer, William Nikolakis & Mike Peters
Year: 2016
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335 |
Think Tank XVII
Reducing economic leakages from tourism: A value chain...
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1844 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The research is funded by the Centre for the Development of Enterprise and with the guidance of the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD. The authors would like to thank Pablo LoMoro at the International Trade Centre for his considerable sup...
Author: Andrew Rylance & Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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