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Think Tank XIX
Designing sustainable tourist experiences – (how) does...
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2085 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: Nature Parks, sustainable tourism, customer journey, sustainable development, behaviour change Page: 188-193 Designing sustainable tourist experiences.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ tabl...
Author: Birgit Reutz
Year: 2019
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Think Tank XII
Evaluation of the accessibility of Monterrey's Tourism...
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2066 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite several declarations, policies and regulations that seek to protect their rights, people with disabilities still encounter several constrains that impede their full participation in society, and, in particular, their access to and en...
Author: Blanca A. Camargo, Isabel Sánchez, Fátima Guajardo & Alejandro García
Year: 2012
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OPA award
Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island: An Explo...
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2064 | Oct 23, 2019 |
Key words: sustainable tourism, mass tourism, sustainable urban development, environmental sustainability Page: 86-114 Sustainable Tourism on a Mass Tourism Island.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ ta...
Author: Kate Devor Leuhusen
Year: 2019
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Think Tank IX
Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t...
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2012 | Oct 13, 2013 |
For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200...
Author: Caroline Scarles
Year: 2009
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...
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1968 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank XV
Conserving biodiversity as tourism (including wildlife...
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1965 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Governments throughout Australia and elsewhere recognise that tourism is an important sector of the economy, and are encouraging its growth in a variety of ways, some more environmentally sound than others. This papers presents not the resul...
Author: Ronda J Green
Year: 2015
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Think Tank XV
Can we eat it? Exploring the cultural challenges in ma...
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1958 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Can we eat it? How did you stop the waves? Is there water in there? Where is the switch to turn it off? Will it eat me? These are just some of the many questions asked by visitors to uShaka Sea World in Durban, South Africa. While South Afri...
Author: Judy Mann & Roy Ballantyne & Jan Packer
Year: 2015
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Think Tank IV
Evaluation of Tourism Events: A Critical Review with a...
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1939 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation will critically review the three main sources of error in tourism event evaluation, related to the limited temporal, geographic and economic scope of current event evaluation approaches. In doing so, it will draw the attent...
Author: Jack Carlsen
Year: 2004
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Think Tank XII
Sustainability and policy mobility in resort destinations
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1910 | Nov 06, 2013 |
In the arena of resort development, there is a long history of destinations emulating (and seeking to surpass) one another in efforts to maintain competitiveness. In recent years, the use of “best case” examples are common tools employed to ...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2012
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Think Tank IX
Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t...
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1892 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Furthermore, social identity theory suggests that people are attracted to others who are familiar to themselves because their similarity reinforces their self-image (Tajfel, 1982), and that people from collectivist culture tend to favour in-...
Author: Rui Jin Hoare, Ken Butcher & Danny O'Brien
Year: 2009
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Think Tank VII
Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...
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1865 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201...
Author: Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VIII
Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of...
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1829 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Over the past years, reports over brutal, racist attacks in the former eastern states of Germany have filled the headlines of German and international media again and again. Tourism authorities in these states have complained that these att...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2008
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Think Tank X
Knowledge Economies, Knowledge Making, Complexity Theo...
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1814 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper narrates processes associated with the development of microtourism enterprises as one part of a broader organically determined sustainable development agenda in a north eastern coastal village in Bali. The paper’s narrative is co...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2010
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Think Tank XVII
E-Mobility as an Innovation for a Sustainable Destinat...
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1771 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The project "E-Destination” funded by Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) aims to show whether and in what form electro-mobility can play a bigger role regarding tourism in the rural region of Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee), Baden-...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Investigating the impact of climate change on the tour...
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1725 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The tourism sector is vital for the development of small island developing states. However, climate change can negatively impact on tourism demand and affect these economies both on the economic and social level. The purpose of this study is...
Author: Sheereen Fauzel, Boopen Seetanah, Robin Sannassee & Robin Nunkoo
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Travelers Satisfaction with Dimensions of Tourist Tert...
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1703 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Loyalty of customers is recognized as a key ingredient for the success of organisations. A 5% increase in customer retention has been linked to 85% increase in profits (Reichfield and Sasser, 1990). As noted by Assael (1984), long term organ...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Kesseven Padachi
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Reducing economic leakages from tourism: A value chain...
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1684 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The research is funded by the Centre for the Development of Enterprise and with the guidance of the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD. The authors would like to thank Pablo LoMoro at the International Trade Centre for his considerable sup...
Author: Andrew Rylance & Anna Spenceley
Year: 2017
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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Think Tank XV
Enhancing stakeholders’ participation for sustainable ...
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1671 | Jul 27, 2015 |
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
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Think Tank XVII
A meta-analysis of the tourism and economic growth nexus
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1650 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The existing literature is fraught with empirical studies delineating the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth. However, the results are at best inconclusive. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to investigate the unde...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Robin Nunkoo & Raja Vinesh Sannassee & Paul Georges Warren Moraghen & Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XV
A modified value chainanalysisoftourism development in...
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1630 | Jul 27, 2015 |
Tourism development in a relatively unknown country is faced with various challenges. The difficulty is not only choosing an appropriate tourism development strategy but also managing it in a complex sociocultural, economic and political env...
Author: Sonja Frommenwiler & Péter Varga
Year: 2015
OPA: Runner Up Outstanding Paper Award
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