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Think Tank XVIII
Advocating the utilisation of visitor book inscription...
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2431 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Visitor books, visitor experience, visitor satisfaction, Mnemba Island, Zanzibar.
Author: Kevin Mearns
Year: 2018
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204 |
Think Tank XV
Rural renewal or requiem? Establishing new creative ve...
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2818 | Jul 27, 2015 |
During the past decades, concern for rural poverty and underdevelopment of the rural communities of Namibia has been central to government development efforts. This has further given rise to several rural development programmes. While, some ...
Author: Erling Kavita
Year: 2015
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203 |
Think Tank X
How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte...
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2896 | 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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202 |
Think Tank XV
Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...
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3327 | 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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201 |
Think Tank XVIII
Resilience thinking used as a sustainable tourism mark...
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3447 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: protected areas, resilience thinking, sustainability, marketing, tool
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
Year: 2018
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200 |
Think Tank XII
Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations
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3464 | Nov 06, 2013 |
In the arena of resort development, there is a long history of destinations emulating (and seeking to surpass) one another in efforts to maintain competitiveness. In recent years, the use of “best case” examples are common tools employed to ...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2012
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199 |
Think Tank XV
A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship
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3544 | 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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198 |
Think Tank XVIII
SMTE’s use of SoMe and Sustainability
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3602 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.
Author: Ida Marie Visbech Andersen
Year: 2018
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197 |
Think Tank IX
Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t...
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3856 | Oct 13, 2013 |
For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200...
Author: Caroline Scarles
Year: 2009
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196 |
Think Tank XVIII
The role of research-based evidence in destination mar...
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3913 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: marketing, research-based evidence, partnership, rural tourism, city tourism, sustainability
Author: Yukari Higuchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka & Hiroaki Hoshi
Year: 2018
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195 |
Think Tank XVIII
Communication of Sustainability Efforts in the Hospita...
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3954 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Keywords: green marketing, sustainability engagement, small / owner-managed hotels
Author: Sven-Olaf Gerdt, Elisa Wagner & Gerhard Schewe
Year: 2018
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194 |
Think Tank XII
Evaluation of the accessibility of Monterrey's Tourism...
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3966 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite several declarations, policies and regulations that seek to protect their rights, people with disabilities still encounter several constrains that impede their full participation in society, and, in particular, their access to and en...
Author: Blanca A. Camargo, Isabel Sánchez, Fátima Guajardo & Alejandro García
Year: 2012
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193 |
Think Tank XIII
Linking tourism with Sustainable Development in Post-R...
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3995 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper examines relationships between tourism and sustainable development via a case study that took place in Egypt from September 2011 to March 2012. The study, hosted by the Planeterra Foundation and G Adventures travel and conducted t...
Author: Laura Carroll
Year: 2013
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192 |
OPA award
Can Direct Communication at the Point of Consumption R...
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4055 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: food waste, food signage, sustainability, experiment
Author: Hannes Antonschmidt & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2018
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191 |
Think Tank IX
Values: Dollars, trees or feelings?
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4160 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The importance of values to tourism is but one aspect of the importance of values in human interactions with the natural environment and even more broadly to the human condition. However, attempts to understand the impact of values on behav...
Author: Denise Dillon
Year: 2009
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190 |
Think Tank XII
Ex Post Investigations of Tourist Consumptions and Env...
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4177 | 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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189 |
Think Tank XII
Virtual Mobilities and Sustainable Tourism: Virtual Fi...
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4255 | 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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188 |
Think Tank VII
Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism
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4291 | 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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187 |
Think Tank XV
Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...
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4336 | 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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186 |
Think Tank XII
It's how you get there: Developing a Transportation Mo...
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4345 | 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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