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No.	Subject	Views	Date
61	Think Tank XV Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em...	3327	Jul 27, 2015
61	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
60	Think Tank XV Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...	4336	Jul 27, 2015
60	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
59	Think Tank VIII Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H...	4561	Oct 13, 2013
59	The purpose of this study was to identify international human resource management best practice with regard to work/life balance policies and practices within an international hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The methodology included an anal... Author: Elizabeth Roberts, David Williamson & Carmen Cox Year: 2008
58	Think Tank V Communicating with Visitors During and After a Natural...	4824	Oct 13, 2013
58	Tourism is often a significant component of a region or country’s economic, social, cultural and environmental well-being and a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tsunami, landslide, flood or bushfire may cause a range of impacts on the d... Author: E. Kate Armstrong Year: 2005
57	Think Tank XV Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...	5347	Jul 27, 2015
57	A number of recent incidents have focussed media attention on the phenomenon of tourist selfies, described their negative consequences for tourist destinations and identified a number of challenges for tourist site managers. This paper repor... Author: John Pearce & Gianna Moscardo Year: 2015
56	Think Tank X Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...	5395	Oct 13, 2013
56	Rapid growth in resort areas, combined with environmental and market stresses, has recently created concern amongst resort decision-makers about future paths of development. Growth models have operated effectively in maintaining resort comp... Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams Year: 2010
55	Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation	5668	Jul 27, 2015
55	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
54	Think Tank XII Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...	5754	Nov 06, 2013
54	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
53	Think Tank XII The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...	5793	Nov 06, 2013
53	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
52	Think Tank IV The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...	5913	Oct 13, 2013
52	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
51	Think Tank XVIII Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...	5954	Jan 07, 2019
51	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
50	Think Tank XI Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...	6021	Oct 14, 2013
50	This abstract intends to present QUSS – an integrated Management System for Quality, Sustainability and Safety in theory and practice. QUSS was invented by the NGO Ecocamping and is thus basically applied on camp sites in Europe with focus ... Author: Tatjana Thimm Year: 2011
49	Think Tank V Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...	6110	Oct 13, 2013
49	How to manage risks that endanger development of tourism but that are caused by tourism itself? An industry-based model is presented as an analytic tool and adapted to the situation in tourism. It is argued that development of tourism lacks ... Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Redzepovic Year: 2005
48	Think Tank XII Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...	6221	Nov 06, 2013
48	Sustainable tourism at a destination is dependent on the maintenance and good management of its attractive assets. In non-urban areas, the assets will primarily be geological, natural and/or cultural, frequently of a sensitive nature, liable... Author: David Ward-Perkins & Frédéric Dimanche Year: 2012
47	Think Tank V Framing Tourist Risk in UK Press Accounts of Hurricane...	6225	Oct 13, 2013
47	This paper examines the coverage of Hurricane Ivan in the Caribbean published in selected leading UK newspapers in September 2004. Quantitative textual analysis have been utilised in this study to determine the main sources of information on... Author: Marcella Daye Year: 2005
46	Think Tank XIII Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...	6550	Nov 06, 2013
46	Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ... Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran Year: 2013
45	Think Tank X The Role of Knowledge-based Networks in Sustainable To...	6556	Oct 13, 2013
45	In practice, tourism organisations tend to be more serious towards their financial viability and therefore undermine long-term socio-cultural and environmental consequences. In so doing they impede their own ability and that of the destinat... Author: Ehsan Ahmed & Larry Dwyer Year: 2010
44	Think Tank IX Valuing water: Perceived differences in attitude and u...	6640	Oct 13, 2013
44	The recent explosion of second home development in tourism areas around the world is a reflection not only of the increased mobility of capital and people associated with the effects of globalization but also the development models employed ... Author: Alison M. Gill, Peter W. Williams & Shelagh Thompson Year: 2009
43	Think Tank XVIII Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi...	6651	Jan 07, 2019
43	Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub Year: 2018
42	Think Tank XIII Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo...	7359	Nov 06, 2013
42	Despite the importance of cities and tourism flows to cities, the literature which explores the effect of tourism on host communities tends to focus on non-urban locations. As different types of tourists place different demands upon the reso... Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards Year: 2013

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