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Think Tank VII
Envisioning Sustainable Tourism Futures: An Evaluation...
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5225 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Methods for researching the future have grown both in variety and rigour, offering new opportunities for understanding sustainable tourism. This paper discusses the value of futures research as a tool for envisioning and planning sustainable...
Author: Pierre Benckendorff
Year: 2007
OPA: 2007 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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213 |
OPA award
A Framework for Work-Life Balance Practices in the Tou...
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5225 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper addresses the key issues surrounding the debate over work-life balance. It provides an overview of current thinking in the general work environment, with specific focus on the issue within the tourism industry. This paper present...
Author: Margaret Deery & Leo Jago
Year: 2008
OPA: 2008 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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212 |
Think Tank XIII
Regional Collaboration as the Conduit for Sustainable ...
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5173 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Sustaining rural America is one of today's pressing issues. With the decline of family operated farms and the move away from traditional extraction industries, word about the benefits of developing tourism in rural communities and regions is...
Author: Paige P. Schneider, Cynthia S. Deale & Svitlana Iarmolenko
Year: 2013
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211 |
Think Tank IX
The West in the East: Conflict in the Values of Volunt...
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5171 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Consequently, the aim of this research was to explore the complexity of trying to work within a framework of sustainability, with a given number of stakeholders (in this case, a UK organisation, its customers (volunteers, primarily British) ...
Author: Angela M. Benson
Year: 2009
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210 |
Think Tank XIX
Innovation Generator. Ideas for Sustainable Tourism Pr...
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5159 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: Innovation generator, Sustainable tourism, Alps, projects, Switzerland Page: 208-213 Innovation Generator.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Norma...
Author: Fabian Weber
Year: 2019
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209 |
Think Tank XIV
Heritage Trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in ...
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5135 | 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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208 |
Think Tank V
Managing of Public Risks in Tourism: Towards Sustainab...
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5110 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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207 |
Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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5083 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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206 |
Think Tank XI
Learning for Sustainable Tourism: Small and Medium Ent...
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5026 | Oct 14, 2013 |
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
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205 |
Think Tank XII
Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:...
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5024 | 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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204 |
Think Tank XIII
Local Residents' Involvement in Rural Tourism: The Cas...
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4986 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Community involvement is regarded as a significant factor for the development of rural tourism. In Malaysia, cooperatives are used as a catalyst to achieve community development through community involvement. This paper focuses on the involv...
Author: Uma Thevi Munikrishnan, Sushila Devi Rajaratnam, Paolo Mura & Vikneswaran Nair
Year: 2013
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203 |
Think Tank XIV
Local Networks as Sustainable Policy Instruments: A Ca...
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4946 | Jun 27, 2014 |
In this case study, a communication network among local hotel managers was examined, first to assess the extent of communication among hotel managers, and second to identify influential members within the network. Communication with respect ...
Author: Karen Irene Thal & Tracy Burkett
Year: 2014
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202 |
Think Tank XIII
Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ...
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4926 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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201 |
Think Tank XI
Identifying Critical Issues in Designing Educational T...
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4910 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Education is seen as an important way to contribute to development. The World Bank finances educational projects with large amounts of money every year because it is convinced that improving education can help alleviate poverty by raising i...
Author: Kerstin Freudenthaler & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2011
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200 |
Think Tank XVIII
Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi...
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4902 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Customer Experience, Sustainable Marketing, CSR, Communication, Hospitality Management
Author: Annkathrin Weiss & Matthias Straub
Year: 2018
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199 |
Think Tank IV
The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th...
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4899 | 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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198 |
Think Tank XIV
Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw...
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4898 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...
Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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197 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai...
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4882 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...
Author: Attama Nilnoppkun
Year: 2012
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196 |
Think Tank IV
Cultural Tourism as a Means for Sustainability in a Ma...
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4876 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism has become for many islands a means of social, economic and cultural development through the creation of jobs, raising standards of living and through the development of local resources for culture and heritage. Thus, many of these d...
Author: Chryso Panayidou
Year: 2004
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195 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Principles Reflected in Award-Winn...
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4857 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There has been increased attention given to sustainable tourism monitoring and evaluation efforts, including corporate policies, guidelines and codes of conduct as well as certification programs (e.g., Dodds and Joppe 2005; Font and Harris ...
Author: Stuart Levy & Donald Hawkins
Year: 2009
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