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Author : Andrew Rylance & Anna Spenceley
School/Work Place : Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Contact : andrewrylance@gmail.com
Year : 2017
OPA : 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner

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 support to the research, and also Sid Boubekeur from the Centre for the Development of Enterprise for making resources available to implement it. The authors thank Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) for their logistical support and guidance in the value chain analysis, and in particular Mokganedi Ntana and Jannet Keretese. The fieldwork team comprising Lily Mosheti, Precious Matengu, Georginah, Tidimalo K, Ogomoditse Keitirile, Michael Moithopedi are thanked for their considerable inputs and energy.

Rylance, Reducing economic leakages from tourism_A value chain assessment of the tourism industry in Kasane, Botswana PP.pdf

Rylance, Reducing economic leakages from tourism_A value chain assessment of the tourism industry in Kasane, Botswana.pdf


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
94 Think Tank XIX Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Medite... file 5537 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: Protected Areas, ecotourism, sustainable tourism, Mediterranean, Ecological Footprint Page: 194-198 Towards an Alternative Ecotourism Model for the Mediterranean Region.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style D...

Author: Jeremy Sampson, Natalie Beckett and Carla Danelutti 

Year: 2019 

93 Think Tank IX Values: Dollars, trees or feelings? file 5521 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 

92 Think Tank XI Use of Cases in an Ethical Teaching Resource for Touri... file 5486 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 

91 Think Tank X Indigenous Values Help Shape a Universal Tourism Ethic file 5456 Oct 13, 2013

Indigenous communities from around the planet are defining common values in their tourism programs that attract visitors seeking authentic, transformational experiences. The Maori of New Zealand, Aborigines of Australia, Maasai of Kenya, Am...

Author: Ben Sherman 

Year: 2010 

90 Think Tank XVIII Certification as a tool to identify sustainable touris... file 5359 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: Sustainable Tourism Products, Sustainable tourism certification schemes, Certification

Author: Martin Balas & Wolfgang Strasdas 

Year: 2018 

89 Think Tank XVIII Resilience thinking used as a sustainable tourism mark... file 5340 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: protected areas, resilience thinking, sustainability, marketing, tool

Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns 

Year: 2018 

88 Think Tank IX Recreation Specialisation and Destination Image: A cas... file 5338 Oct 13, 2013

Papua New Guinea (PNG) should be to Australia what Costa Rica and Belize are to the USA – a proximate and successful tourist destination that attracts sustainable numbers of tourists drawn to the extraordinary diversity of endemic wildlife,...

Author: Kevin Lyons, Kevin Markwell & Patricia Johnson 

Year: 2009 

87 Think Tank XIX Nature-based tourism among ‘bad-nature’: Creating sust... file 5305 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: nature based tourism, sustainable tourism, invasive species, pollution, environmental degradation, New Zealand Page: 115-118 Nature-based tourism Among Bad Tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Defini...

Author: Brent Lovelock, Anna Carr and Stuart Hayes 

Year: 2019 

86 Think Tank XVII Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ... file 5225 Aug 17, 2017

This paper presents research commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s African Natural Resources Center (ANRC), that aimed to to identify and summarise existing monitoring data being gathered by national tourism authorities and i...

Author: Anna Spenceley 

Year: 2017 

85 Think Tank IV A Theoretical Perspective of Triple Bottom Line Report... file 5210 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 

84 Think Tank XV Environmental Practices and Hotels’ Performance: an em... file 5204 Jul 27, 2015

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 

83 Think Tank XIX Factors influencing barriers and enabling factors for ... file 5153 Oct 23, 2019

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Author: Tinat Nhep, Mondher Sahli and Christian Schott 

Year: 2019 

82 Think Tank XVIII Connecting through Stories: Adapting Communication to ... file 5139 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: story-telling, landscapes, interpretation, sustainable tourism experiences

Author: Gianna Moscardo & Karen Hughes 

Year: 2018 

81 Think Tank XIX The time use rebound effect and its impact on tourist ... file 5136 Oct 23, 2019

Key words: rebound effect, time use, consumer behaviour, energy consumption, sustainability Page: 75-78 The time use rebound effect and its impact on tourist consumption in the context of sustainable tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN...

Author: Soheon Kim 

Year: 2019 

80 Think Tank IX Do Chinese tourists find their in-group members more t... file 5120 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 

79 Think Tank XV Inclusive tourism business models: A comparative analy... file 5022 Jul 27, 2015

Mitchell and Ashley state that the “bulk of pro-poor tourism literature has not aimed at measuring impact… [and] is indeed recognized as a weakness in the pro-poor tourism literature by its proponents” (2010:5). The research paper aims to qu...

Author: Andrew Rylance 

Year: 2015 

78 Think Tank X Implementing Destination Governance file 4987 Oct 14, 2013

In the tourism management literature, several authors (Nordin, Beritelli et al, Pechlaner) have promoted the concept of destination governance, to define a coalition of disparate parties with common interests, as a productive approach to to...

Author: Loredana Padurean 

Year: 2010 

77 Think Tank XVI The Act of Giving – Understanding CSR in Myanmar in a ... file 4946 Jul 02, 2016

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Author: Nicole Häusler & Kathrin Dischereit 

Year: 2016 

76 Think Tank XV The social enterprise as a vehicle to poverty alleviat... file 4834 Jul 27, 2015

Over the last decades, social enterprises have increasingly gained importance in the travel and tourism industry and they are revolutionizing the way business is done. Instead of maximizing profits for external shareholders, a social enterpr...

Author: Sebastian Ferrari & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2015 

75 Think Tank VIII Tourism Acting as a Factor of Integration: The Case of... file 4831 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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