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Think Tank XIV
The Prospects for Sustainable Tourism in Vanuatu in th...
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4279 | Jun 26, 2014 |
This paper explores the feasibility for Vanuatu of implementing several key international recommendations for policy-makers for the sustainable development (SD) of national tourism sectors (UNEP-WTO, 2005). It shows that the remarkable fragm...
Author: Valentina Dinica
Year: 2014
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253 |
Think Tank IV
A Framework for the Development of Social and Socio-Ec...
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4289 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the background thinking to a CRC for Sustainable Tourism project that develops social and socio-economic indicators for tourism communities. The project emanates from the Green Globe 21 Standard that incorporates indicato...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2004
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252 |
Think Tank IX
Tourism Price Competitiveness: a neglected ‘value’ in ...
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4294 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Price competitiveness is one of the most important factors in the overall tourism competitiveness of a country or a destination. There is widely accepted evidence that prices are one of the most important factors in decisions about whether, ...
Author: Larry Dwyer & Peter Forsyth
Year: 2009
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251 |
Think Tank IV
Mass-ski Tourism in the Dolomites and Sustainability: ...
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4303 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of mass-ski tourism on the environment in the Dolomites (Italian Alps), where in winter the principal activities are snow sports. In implementing this development model the Dolomite region has...
Author: Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi, Federica Buffa, Pietro Marzani & Maria Della Lucia
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Runner Up
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250 |
Think Tank V
Effects of SARS Crisis on the Economic Contribution of...
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4304 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In a context of uncertainty over traveller security, tourism experienced two major crises in 2003- the Iraq War and SARS. While the relative impacts of a complex array of impacts on travel decisionmaking are almost impossible to dissect, thi...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth & Ray Spurr
Year: 2005
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249 |
Think Tank VIII
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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4319 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within the tourism industry. This paper present...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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248 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S...
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4323 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a joint public and private sector research project entitled Mobile Digital City and Nature Walks - the development of content and software for a mobile tourism device. Focusing on sustainable tourism, marketing and innova...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2004
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247 |
Think Tank VI
Family Businesses and Sustainable Tourism: the Role of...
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4346 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Family businesses, that is, businesses owned and/or operated my members of a single family, are predominant in Western economies. This is also an important category of business within tourism hospitality, particularly in rural areas where r...
Author: Janne J. Liburd & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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246 |
Think Tank XIV
Hospitality of Sustainable Tourism Encounters: Experie...
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4346 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Global tourism is, at least to some extent, based upon to the vast inequalities between wealthy and impoverished (Cole & Morgan 2010, xv). Neglecting, or actively forgetting, the legacy of colonialism and the modern forms of economic and...
Author: Emily Höckert
Year: 2014
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245 |
Think Tank V
Tourism in Small Communities: Risks and Benefits
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4354 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents the findings from a Sustainable Tourism Co-operative Research Centre study into the risks associated with the social impacts of tourism on a small community in the Australian state of Tasmania. This state is known for its...
Author: Leo Jago, Margaret Deery & Liz Fredline
Year: 2005
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244 |
OPA award
Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island: An Explo...
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4359 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: sustainable tourism, mass tourism, sustainable urban development, environmental sustainability Page: 86-114 Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ ta...
Author: Kate Devor Leuhusen
Year: 2019
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243 |
Think Tank XVIII
Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...
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4413 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Keywords: natural resource management, community participation, stakeholder engagement, co-creation, sustainable tourism, Networks of Reserves.
Author: Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa, Sandra Notaro, Nicola Zeni & Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi
Year: 2018
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242 |
Think Tank XII
The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...
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4419 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...
Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson
Year: 2012
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241 |
Think Tank VI
National Park as a Social Corporation
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4482 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The issue is discussed how authorities of National Parks that aim to preserve biosphere can enlarge income. A review indicates that many Parks generate high income from tourism. A Dutch case illustrates that one can find sustainable innovat...
Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Christensen-Redzepovic
Year: 2006
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240 |
Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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4509 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Surf beach drowning is an example of a tourist injury problem in Australia. In this paper, a process is outlined to identify and tease out the roles and relationships among causal risk factors, markers of risk, and components of risk exposur...
Author: Damian Morgan
Year: 2005
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239 |
Think Tank XIII
City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V...
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4510 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The level of interest and participation in voluntourism has progressively become a major sector in contemporary tourism. The notion of combining a novel and pleasurable tourism experience with the fulfillment of contributing a worthwhile cau...
Author: Eunice Tan
Year: 2013
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238 |
Think Tank XII
Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T...
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4514 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...
Author: Janne J. Liburd
Year: 2012
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237 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees in Susta...
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4516 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has developed significantly over the last decade and has taken on a myriad of meanings. For many companies, it is a philosophy that helps guide their actions in the external environment. E...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2006
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236 |
Think Tank XIV
Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ...
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4545 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Therefore, being of a different nature than sustainability pillars, political sustainability (Mihalic et al., 2012) is a requirement for sustainable tourism development (Edgell, DelMastro Allen, Smith & Swanson, 2008; UNWTO, 2004). This ...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Tina Šegota, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar, Kir Kuščer
Year: 2014
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235 |
Think Tank VIII
An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Lif...
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4563 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Quality of life studies are usually either objective or subjective in nature. Objective quality of life studies concentrate on social indicators whereas subjective quality of life studies attempt to assess the perceived satisfaction that in...
Author: Turgut Var, Erhan Ada, Gökce Ozdemir & Deniz Hasirci
Year: 2008
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