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Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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8085 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I...
Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul
Year: 2009
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Think Tank XII
Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...
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8299 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...
Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller
Year: 2012
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Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8416 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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OPA award
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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8664 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...
Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee
Year: 2013
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Think Tank XV
Deconstruction of Man-nature Dialogue Nexus: A Critica...
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8812 | Jul 27, 2015 |
The relationship between man and nature dates back to the millennia. The intimacy of man-nature interaction increased with decreasing healthy nature, as man’s insatiable desire to know and control nature as a commodity becomes more dynamical...
Author: Michael Kweku Commeh
Year: 2015
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40 |
Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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9118 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recent challenges within the hospitality industry highlight a critical need for research and innovation to inform management practice. Surprisingly, however, a comprehensive review of literature has found that innovation research within the...
Author: Conrad Lashley & Barry O'Mahony
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VIII
Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...
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9145 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ...
Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu
Year: 2008
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Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Interven...
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9265 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Implicit in notions of sustainable development is an holistic triple bottom line approach that seeks to preserve essential ecological processes, protect human heritage and biodiversity and foster inter and intra-generational equity whilst r...
Author: David Wood & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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37 |
Think Tank VIII
A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...
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9944 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the last years, which led to an increasing amount of research that has analysed both the economic and social impacts of sport events. Whereas a substantial amount of ex post assessment fr...
Author: Nico Schulenkorf
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Runner Up
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OPA award
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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10007 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank V
Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P...
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10439 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In an era of considerable disaster and uncertainty, many destinations have been made alarmingly aware of the fickle nature of tourism. While peak industry bodies, academics and professionals advocate the introduction of risk/crisis managemen...
Author: Yetta Gurtner
Year: 2005
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34 |
Think Tank XII
Origins, Evolution and Potential Future of the Coastal...
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10561 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Coastal caravan parks in Australia are in decline due to the conversion of beachfront land to higher yielding forms of commercial enterprise (Prideaux and McClymont, 2006; Tourism Research Australia, 2007). The resulting reduction in accommo...
Author: Rod Caldicott & Pascal Scherrer
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XVIII
Visitor management in protected areas
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10589 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand
Author: Julia Nina Albrecht
Year: 2018
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Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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10671 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st...
Author: Marina Novelli
Year: 2009
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Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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10785 | Nov 06, 2013 |
“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov
Year: 2012
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30 |
Think Tank XIV
Assessing Samui Island's Sustainable Tourism Policies ...
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11116 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Since 2009, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) promoted sustainable tourism practices through its – 7 Greens Concept, which is similar to the main global trends towards sustainable tourism. The 7 Greens Concept includes Green Heart, Gre...
Author: Attama Nilnoppakun, Krissada Pornprapa, Nattapong Boonlue & Kreagrit Ampawat
Year: 2014
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Think Tank X
Rather Together? Network Effects among Students
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11627 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Being faced with global trends that challenge the way tourism is conducted at present (Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Roman and Scott, 2009; Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Scott, Roman and C., 2008), educators worldwide have recognized the need to ad...
Author: Florian Aubke, Ivo Ponocny & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2010
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28 |
Think Tank VII
There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati...
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11782 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h...
Author: Gianna Moscardo
Year: 2007
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27 |
Think Tank XV
The operational challenges of community-based tourism ...
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12079 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Community-based tourism is increasingly being developed and promoted as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries assisting local communities to meet their needs through the offering of a tourism product. The Swaziland Tourism Auth...
Author: S. E. Lukhele & K. F. Mearns
Year: 2015
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26 |
Think Tank VII
Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris...
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12110 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Communities have a variety of interest levels in tourism overall, including sustainable tourism (WTO, 2002). While we have witnessed increased awareness and discussions about sustainability and sustainable tourism, there is often a lack of s...
Author: Cynthia Messer, Ingrid Schneider & Okechukwu Ukaga
Year: 2007
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