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No.	Subject	Views	Date
26	Think Tank VIII Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events:...	127752	Oct 13, 2013
26	The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a range of performances. The Wadden Sea Fest... Author: Janne J. Liburd & Anja Hergesell Year: 2008
25	Think Tank VIII Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...	97450	Oct 13, 2013
25	This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag... Author: David Foster Year: 2008
24	Think Tank VIII Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...	37914	Oct 13, 2013
24	Extensive infrastructure and client expectations of luxury will mean that their carbon footprint and water usage is likely to exceed significantly that of average urban households. Often located in coastal or riverine settings, they are vuln... Author: Charles Arcodia & Chantal Dickson Year: 2008
23	Think Tank VIII A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...	36074	Oct 13, 2013
23	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
22	Think Tank VIII Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o...	33961	Oct 13, 2013
22	In this paper we take the standpoint that environmental education and ecotourism are highly related and depend on each other, and that ecotourism cannot be achieved without proper environmental education. Furthermore, in order to achieve qu... Author: Mojca Arsenijevic & Marko Bohanec Year: 2008
21	Think Tank VIII Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...	33520	Oct 13, 2013
21	The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s... Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle Year: 2008
20	Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...	32309	Dec 19, 2013
20	This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti... Author: Kitsada Tungchawal Year: 2008
19	Think Tank VIII Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...	32178	Oct 13, 2013
19	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
18	Think Tank VIII Resident Support for Sustainable Tourism Policies in T...	31976	Oct 13, 2013
18	During the last two decades, there has been increased focus on topics related to various aspects of sustainable tourism. Believing that sustainable tourism can be a serious alternative that can remedy some of the negative impacts associated ... Author: Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Muzzo S. Uysal & Turgut Var Year: 2008
17	Think Tank VIII Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...	30610	Oct 13, 2013
17	This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ... Author: Larry Dwyer Year: 2008
16	Think Tank VIII Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o...	28797	Oct 13, 2013
16	Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated... Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar Year: 2008
15	Think Tank VIII Emerging Green Tourists: Their Behaviours and Attitudes	28677	Oct 13, 2013
15	The concerns are varied and are not necessarily important to all tourists and the influence they have on sustaining the industry is unknown. For years the tourism industry has used a number of mechanisms in an attempt to green operators. The... Author: Sue Bergin-Seers & Judith Mair Year: 2008
14	Think Tank VIII Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...	28122	Oct 13, 2013
14	Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very sim... Author: Sebastian Filep Year: 2008
13	Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...	26929	Oct 13, 2013
13	This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ... Author: Miha Bratec Year: 2008
12	Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...	24668	Oct 13, 2013
12	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
11	Think Tank VIII An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Lif...	24271	Oct 13, 2013
11	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
10	Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o...	24169	Oct 13, 2013
10	Global economic and political change has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration flows resulting in unprecedented transformation in the form and condition of impacted communities (Woods, 2006). This increase in human migration to ar... Author: Alison M. Gill Year: 2008
9	Think Tank VIII Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism ...	23169	Oct 13, 2013
9	‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the sustainability of their offer. One can henc... Author: Maud Tixier Year: 2008
8	Think Tank VIII Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...	23109	Oct 13, 2013
8	Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev... Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall Year: 2008
7	Think Tank VIII Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism [LOST] Firms in the F...	22084	Oct 13, 2013
7	Lifestyle has been oft cited in the literature as the main motivation for those establishing or acquiring tourism related businesses in attractive destinations. However, the term has many different dimensions and connotations, both positive... Author: Jack Carlsen & Alison Morrison Year: 2008

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