254 |
Think Tank VIII
Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Chang...
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5472 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change: the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their suggestions concerning possible actions that can be tak...
Author: Xavier Matteucci & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2008
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253 |
Think Tank XIV
The Prospects for Sustainable Tourism in Vanuatu in th...
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5485 | 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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252 |
Think Tank VII
Innovative Technologies in Travel and Tourism - Toward...
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5549 | Oct 13, 2013 |
While it seems to be gradually dawning on humankind that the quality of our lives and (in extremis)survival of our and subsequent generations will depend to a significant extent on our ability and willingness to make urgent and significant ...
Author: Ivo Martinac
Year: 2007
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251 |
Think Tank XV
Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation
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5555 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Scholarship on guiding and interpretation positions formal training as a central factor in guide instruction. Guide training operates in the area that mediates between personal characteristics, attitudes and knowledge of the guides and what ...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht & Trisha Dwyer
Year: 2015
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250 |
Think Tank XIII
Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ...
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5585 | Nov 06, 2013 |
One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...
Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor
Year: 2013
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249 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among...
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5594 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb...
Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger
Year: 2015
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248 |
Think Tank VI
National Park as a Social Corporation
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5595 | 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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247 |
Think Tank VII
Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl...
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5606 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...
Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2007
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246 |
Think Tank XII
Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ...
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5612 | Nov 06, 2013 |
As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...
Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King
Year: 2012
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245 |
Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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5653 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...
Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin
Year: 2012
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244 |
Think Tank IV
Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S...
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5665 | 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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243 |
Think Tank XII
Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:...
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5668 | Nov 06, 2013 |
For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...
Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould
Year: 2012
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242 |
Think Tank XII
The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...
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5685 | 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 VIII
Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...
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5723 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Almost all the academic literature on tourism impacts has focussed on the consequences of tourism for the destination and its residents. Very little attention has been paid to the impacts of tourism on tourists. Virtually all cost-benefit an...
Author: Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2008
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240 |
Think Tank V
Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches
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5746 | 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 IX
Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu...
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5780 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism, like any other endeavour, operates within the social and political domains of a community, and it is therefore likely that residents with different social and political values would hold different representations of tourism. In the ...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline
Year: 2009
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238 |
Think Tank VII
A Community of Heroes
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5799 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...
Author: Regina Binder
Year: 2007
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237 |
Think Tank XIV
Heritage Trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in ...
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5818 | Jun 26, 2014 |
One of the beneficial methodologies for growing and developing a level of tourism which is sustainable and enhances the totality of local and regional environments is a multi-stakeholder approach to tourism development. In this paper, we pre...
Author: Marko Koscak
Year: 2014
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236 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f...
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5820 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Transport is a vital and integral component of the tourism system yet it contributes the most emissions in tourism (Dubois, Peeters, Ceron, & Gössling, 2011; Peeters & Dubois, 2010). In line with the global concerns for sustainabilit...
Author: Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn
Year: 2014
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235 |
Think Tank IV
The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...
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5824 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Our premise in this paper is that if sustainable tourism development and management is to meet the needs of both the present and the future then it is equally important to prioritise research on those who visit tourism destinations (and incl...
Author: Pat Sterry & Debra Leighton
Year: 2004
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