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Keywords: green marketing, sustainability engagement, small / owner-managed hotels
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
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
Key words: small accommodation, sustainable tourism, business models
Author: Niki Glen & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2018
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
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
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
The project "E-Destination” funded by Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) aims to show whether and in what form electro-mobility can play a bigger role regarding tourism in the rural region of Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee), Baden-...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.
Author: Ida Marie Visbech Andersen
Key words: nature based tourism, sustainable tourism, invasive species, pollution, environmental degradation, New Zealand Page: 115-118 Nature-based tourism Among Bad Tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Defini...
Author: Brent Lovelock, Anna Carr and Stuart Hayes
Year: 2019
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
Key words: Protected Areas, ecotourism, sustainable tourism, Mediterranean, Ecological Footprint Page: 194-198 Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Mediterranean Region.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style D...
Author: Jeremy Sampson, Natalie Beckett and Carla Danelutti
Key words: marketing, research-based evidence, partnership, rural tourism, city tourism, sustainability
Author: Yukari Higuchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka & Hiroaki Hoshi
This paper identifies and explains roles, functions and structures in visitor management of protected areas in nature-based tourism in New Zealand. Establishing the benefits and disadvantages arising from the implementation of any particula...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht
The tourism sector is vital for the development of small island developing states. However, climate change can negatively impact on tourism demand and affect these economies both on the economic and social level. The purpose of this study is...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, Boopen Seetanah, Robin Sannassee & Robin Nunkoo
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Author: Kerstin Heuwinkel
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
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
Tourism is a major activity for some Mediterranean economies. While the growth of tourism over the last few decades has had many positive effects, it has also harmed the environment when this growth has not been planned in a sustainable way...
Author: Arayeh Afsordegan, Mar Vila, NúriaAgell, Mónica Sánchez
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe
Key words: sustainable tourism education, transformative education, collaborative learning, multi-stakeholder collaboration Page: 119-124 Multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative tourism education.pdf
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Ulrich Gunter and Gordon Sillence
Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2008
