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Think Tank XV
Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation
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2457 | Jul 27, 2015 |
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
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133 |
Think Tank VII
A Community of Heroes
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2455 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...
Author: Regina Binder
Year: 2007
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132 |
Think Tank XI
Use of Cases in an Ethical Teaching Resource for Touri...
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2426 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Ethical problems are an integral part of all professions and academic disciplines (Clarkeburn, 2002). However, it is recognised that the increasing application of technology by students in research is not always matched by consideration of ...
Author: Carl Cater
Year: 2011
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131 |
Think Tank XVIII
Community participation and stakeholder engagement in ...
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2424 | Jan 07, 2019 |
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
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130 |
Think Tank IV
A Theoretical Perspective of Triple Bottom Line Report...
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2396 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Triple Bottom Line is defined and explained within the context of a broad philosophical approach to business and a more narrow perspective of reporting performance. The impact of the broader notion of sustainable development, with its macro ...
Author: Jeffrey Faux
Year: 2004
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129 |
Think Tank VIII
Managing Work/Life Balance Issues: An Examination of H...
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2377 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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128 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring Youth Perspectives on Quality of Life and To...
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2339 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) is implicit in conceptualisations of tourism, especially those used to develop and guide tourism policy and planning. At the individual level it is assumed that travel offers a number of different ways to...
Author: Anna Blackman, Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2014
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127 |
Think Tank VII
Innovative Technologies in Travel and Tourism - Toward...
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2320 | Oct 13, 2013 |
While it seems to be gradually dawning on humankind that the quality of our lives and (in extremis)survival of our and subsequent generations will depend to a significant extent on our ability and willingness to make urgent and significant ...
Author: Ivo Martinac
Year: 2007
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126 |
Think Tank XVIII
The Munich Streetlife Festival: A case study on a gree...
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2310 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: Green events, sustainability communication, theory of planned behaviour, transtheoretical model, structure equation model
Author: Elias Butzmann & Christina Tölkes
Year: 2018
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125 |
Think Tank XII
Tourist Cards - Experiences with Soft Mobility in Germ...
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2309 | Nov 06, 2013 |
An increasing number of destinations face the negative sides of tourism transport. Especially, the motorized (individual) traffic can cause ecological problems due to a risen traffic volume, noise and air pollution or its negative effects on...
Author: Dorothea Dürkop & Sven Gross
Year: 2012
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124 |
Think Tank VII
Outfitting and Guiding as Sustainable Tourism
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2288 | 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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123 |
Think Tank XII
The Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds in 2010 and 2011 on ...
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2287 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Few recent events which disrupted global tourism and especially tourism mobility, match the impact of the volcanic ash clouds generated from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 and the Chilean volcano Puyehue in 20...
Author: David Beirman
Year: 2012
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122 |
Think Tank XV
Social Representations of Tourist Selfies: New Challen...
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2248 | Jul 27, 2015 |
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
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121 |
Think Tank IX
Values: Dollars, trees or feelings?
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2235 | 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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120 |
Think Tank XIV
Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t...
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2211 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...
Author: Patricia C. Johnson
Year: 2014
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119 |
Think Tank VI
How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ...
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2208 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The research aims to develop a conceptual model of e-commerce adoption in tourism enterprises. The paper begins with a literature review identifying the opportunities and competitive advantage for tourism enterprises associated with E-commer...
Author: Nina Mistilis & John D’Ambra
Year: 2006
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118 |
Think Tank XVI
Tourists vs Tour operators Preferences for CSR Policie...
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2205 | Jul 02, 2016 |
There is an increasing concern for environmental and social issues among international travelers. As a consequence, many tourist corporations have been exploring the implementation of Social Responsibility (SR) policies as a tool to gain co...
Author: Jorge E. Araña, Gianluca Goffi & Carmelo J. León
Year: 2016
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117 |
Think Tank XV
The role of souvenir vendors in the cultural sustainab...
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2176 | Jul 27, 2015 |
The research investigated the role of souvenir vendors in sustaining the social-cultural authenticity of Chichen Itza’s host community, a Mexican UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) (UNESCO, 2015a). The case study evaluated the Maya-descent ven...
Author: Ady Milman
Year: 2015
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116 |
Think Tank XIX
Innovation Generator. Ideas for Sustainable Tourism Pr...
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2173 | 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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115 |
Think Tank VII
Social Responsibility and Innovation on Trafficking an...
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2137 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ethical questions related to globalization, human rights, unfair labor practices and trans-boundary exchanges of capital and work force create ever more complex challenges for the tourism sustainability agenda. In recent years, the tourism i...
Author: Camelia Tepelus
Year: 2007
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