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Think Tank XIV
Exploring Youth Perspectives on Quality of Life and To...
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3540 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) is implicit in conceptualisations of tourism, especially those used to develop and guide tourism policy and planning. At the individual level it is assumed that travel offers a number of different ways to...
Author: Anna Blackman, Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2014
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Think Tank XIX
Changes in volunteerism perception: Results from an In...
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3570 | Oct 23, 2019 |
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Author: Rachelle Wilson, Pavlina Latkova, Aiko Yoshino and Emilyn Sheffield
Year: 2019
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312 |
OPA award
Can Direct Communication at the Point of Consumption R...
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3618 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: food waste, food signage, sustainability, experiment
Author: Hannes Antonschmidt & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2018
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311 |
Think Tank XII
Virtual Mobilities and Sustainable Tourism: Virtual Fi...
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3638 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Due to the financial constraints on the part of the educational institution as well as the student, offsetting the GHG emissions generated by the fieldtrip is often not regarded as financially feasible, or subject to doubts about the integri...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2012
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310 |
Think Tank XV
Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...
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3648 | 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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309 |
Think Tank XII
Ex Post Investigations of Tourist Consumptions and Env...
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3665 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Progress towards a more sustainable future of tourism is conditioned by simultaneous improvements of the production and consumption of leisure. Consequently, efforts are done by companies (hotels, airlines, tour operators, etc), governmental...
Author: Adriana Budeanu
Year: 2012
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308 |
Think Tank VII
Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism
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3685 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The antecedents of the modern outfitter are numerous and varied, reaching far back into mythology, allegoric literature, history, and geographic exploration. Throughout history, guides have played two distinct roles, the pathfinder and the m...
Author: Norma Nickerson
Year: 2007
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307 |
Think Tank X
Implementing Destination Governance
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3716 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In the tourism management literature, several authors (Nordin, Beritelli et al, Pechlaner) have promoted the concept of destination governance, to define a coalition of disparate parties with common interests, as a productive approach to to...
Author: Loredana Padurean
Year: 2010
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306 |
Think Tank VII
Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...
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3725 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201...
Author: Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2007
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305 |
Think Tank XI
Use of Cases in an Ethical Teaching Resource for Touri...
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3735 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Ethical problems are an integral part of all professions and academic disciplines (Clarkeburn, 2002). However, it is recognised that the increasing application of technology by students in research is not always matched by consideration of ...
Author: Carl Cater
Year: 2011
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304 |
Think Tank XII
It's how you get there: Developing a Transportation Mo...
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3761 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines the impacts of alternative modes of transportation utilized for an international study course in Ecuador during two consecutive summers. The analysis includes the perceived value of the student participants in relation to...
Author: Kenneth Cohen & John Bowen
Year: 2012
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303 |
Think Tank XVI
The Act of Giving – Understanding CSR in Myanmar in a ...
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3773 | Jul 02, 2016 |
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Author: Nicole Häusler & Kathrin Dischereit
Year: 2016
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302 |
Think Tank IV
Evaluation of Tourism Events: A Critical Review with a...
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3784 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation will critically review the three main sources of error in tourism event evaluation, related to the limited temporal, geographic and economic scope of current event evaluation approaches. In doing so, it will draw the attent...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2004
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301 |
Think Tank IX
De-constructing the Cosmopolitan Gaze
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3815 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Introduction: Nurturing effective intercultural dialogue through tourism has been positioned to be an emergent challenge to tourism professionals working toward sustainability in a globalised world (Robinson and Picard 2006). This interdisci...
Author: Patricia Johnson
Year: 2009
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300 |
Think Tank XII
Tourist Cards - Experiences with Soft Mobility in Germ...
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3850 | Nov 06, 2013 |
An increasing number of destinations face the negative sides of tourism transport. Especially, the motorized (individual) traffic can cause ecological problems due to a risen traffic volume, noise and air pollution or its negative effects on...
Author: Dorothea Dürkop & Sven Gross
Year: 2012
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299 |
Think Tank VII
Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an...
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3904 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ethical questions related to globalization, human rights, unfair labor practices and trans-boundary exchanges of capital and work force create ever more complex challenges for the tourism sustainability agenda. In recent years, the tourism i...
Author: Camelia Tepelus
Year: 2007
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298 |
Think Tank XIV
Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t...
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3953 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...
Author: Patricia C. Johnson
Year: 2014
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297 |
Think Tank XV
Can we eat it? Exploring the cultural challenges in ma...
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3965 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Can we eat it? How did you stop the waves? Is there water in there? Where is the switch to turn it off? Will it eat me? These are just some of the many questions asked by visitors to uShaka Sea World in Durban, South Africa. While South Afri...
Author: Judy Mann & Roy Ballantyne & Jan Packer
Year: 2015
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296 |
Think Tank V
An Economic Explanation of the Net Benefits of Tourism...
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3968 | Oct 13, 2013 |
International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism...
Author: Mondher Sahli & Jean-Jacques Nowak
Year: 2005
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295 |
Think Tank X
Indigenous Values Help Shape a Universal Tourism Ethic
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4041 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Indigenous communities from around the planet are defining common values in their tourism programs that attract visitors seeking authentic, transformational experiences. The Maori of New Zealand, Aborigines of Australia, Maasai of Kenya, Am...
Author: Ben Sherman
Year: 2010
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