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Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.
During the past decades, concern for rural poverty and underdevelopment of the rural communities of Namibia has been central to government development efforts. This has further given rise to several rural development programmes. While, some ...
Author: Erling Kavita
Year: 2015
This study explores why family firms adopt social and ecological policies that go beyond regulations, which includes hard (e.g., law; Berrone et al., 2010) or soft (e.g., certificates; Rivera, 2002) regulations. To accomplish this, the stud...
Author: Johanna Zanon, Andreas Kallmuenzer, William Nikolakis & Mike Peters
Year: 2016
The world is changing into a place where broader spectra of responsibilities are now being embraced. A significant realisation has grown throughout the world that the Earth’s natural resources are scarce. Industrialisation and economic grow...
Author: Candice Hunter & Kevin Mearns
Sustainability and eco-friendliness is gaining considerable attention within the hotel industry (Chen, Sloan & Legrand, 2009; Kim & Han, 2010). There has been a growing awareness of the environmental and social influence of hotel ope...
Author: Julia Zimmermann & Matthias Straub
Year: 2017
Key words: inclusive tourism, visual impairment, sighted guiding, motivation
Author: Kristof Tomej
Year: 2018
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
Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and developing diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors worldwide. Every year the tourism industry has experienced steady growth. International tourist a...
Author: Toshima Makoondlall-Chadee, Chandradeo Bokhoree, Deepa Sumputh
Key words: Conservation Behaviour, The Great Barrier Reef, Delphi Techniques
Author: Karen Hofman
Rock art is found across the world and is a unique heritage which is divided into three main categories; rock paintings (pictographs), rock engravings, (petroglyphs), and geoglyphs (natural objects used as designs) (Anati, 1993; Clottes, 199...
Author: Claire Louisa Fordred & Kevin Mearns
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Author: Isabel Lissner & Marius Mayer
Key words: Visitor books, visitor experience, visitor satisfaction, Mnemba Island, Zanzibar.
Author: Kevin Mearns
Although the discussion on Accessible Tourism has increased in intensity over the past 20 years, and by now there are even a few examples of Good Practices being implemented, it nevertheless must be pointed out that this approach is not yet ...
Author: Andreas Kagermeier
Increasingly, literature has depicted food tourism as a powerful contributor to the ‘triple bottom line’ of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in rural communities (e.g. Sidali et al., 2015; Sims, 2009; Everret & Aitchson...
Author: Yukari Higuchi & Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Tourism planning in protected areas (PAs) entails addressing two partly competing and overlapping goals: preserving heritage and providing access. Resolving potential conflicts between these two goals is particularly challenging at the inter...
Author: MorenTibabo Stone & Gyan P. Nyaupane
Key words: religious tourism, pilgrimage, sustainable practicesPages: 8-11 Pilgrim experience as an avenue for sustainable tourism.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-nam...
Author: Senebto Dagnachew
Year: 2019
This study investigates environmental attitudes and concerns of Germans tourists towards climate change. Furthermore it analyses if there are attempts to neutralise air travel emissions by means of voluntary carbon-offsetting. Past research...
Author: Isabell Wulfsberg, Dirk Reiser, Volker Rundshagen & Nicolai Scherle
Key words: Sustainable tourism development; co-design; collaboration; education; transformative learning. Page: 34-37 Bridging the Gap.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style...
Author: Eva Duedahl and Janne Liburd
Key words: Dive tourism, marine life, current and future threats, mitigation, resilience, sustainability. Page: 12-33 The dive resort industry in Indonesia.pdf Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoN...
Author: Joerg Domroes and Mondher Sahli
Food consumption is seen by most tourists as an important part of their holiday and tourism often takes place in ecologically, socially and culturally sensitive destinations. Through food consumption, it is not only possible to support heal...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Hannes Antonschmidt & Klaus-Peter Fritz
Responsible tourism incorporates economic, environmental and social imperatives in accordance with ‘sustainable tourism’ notions (Booyens & Rogerson, 2016a). This research argues that tourism firms need to innovate in order to be economi...
Author: Irma Booyens and Christian M. Rogerson
