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No.	Subject	Views	Date
62	Think Tank VII The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...	6470	Oct 13, 2013
62	"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character... Author: Alan A. Lew Year: 2007
61	OPA award Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	6404	Oct 13, 2013
61	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
60	Think Tank IX Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...	6383	Oct 13, 2013
60	This research aims to propose a sustainable tourism development plan for the City of Nan. Since the year 2000, Nan civil society leaders, national and international stakeholders have tried to develop Nan into a world heritage destination. I... Author: Donruetai Kovathanakul Year: 2009
59	Think Tank VI Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...	6337	Oct 13, 2013
59	Following its historical rise and fall, America’s first industrialized polluted landscape garnered federal and local support to remedy its near destruction. Today, the Blackstone Valley is a pragmatic example of translating theory into pract... Author: Robert Billington, Veronica Cadoppi & Natalie Carter Year: 2006 OPA: 2006 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
58	Think Tank XII Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ...	6136	Nov 06, 2013
58	It is nearing the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) (United Nations, 2011), an awareness raising campaign which “seeks to mobilize the educational resources of the world to help create a mo... Author: Erica Wilson, Tania von der Heidt, Geoffrey Lamberton & Dayle Morrison Year: 2012
57	Think Tank VII Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Fu...	5971	Oct 13, 2013
57	A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Tec... Author: Larry Dwyer, Deborah Edwards, Nina Mistilis, & Carolina Roman Year: 2007
56	Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...	5832	Oct 13, 2013
56	Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has... Author: Pierre Benckendorff Year: 2009
55	Think Tank XIV The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...	5819	Jun 26, 2014
55	Social tourism refers to initiatives that aim to include groups into tourism that would otherwise be excluded from it. The earliest definition of social tourism by Hunzicker (1951) described social tourism as ‘‘the relationships and phenomen... Author: Lynn Minnaert Year: 2014
54	Think Tank X How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The...	5566	Oct 13, 2013
54	This case study complements recent research on FDI in tourism in African countries conducted by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These projects aim to better understand the pro-development effects of tourism... Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli Year: 2010
53	Think Tank XIV Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism?	5085	Jun 27, 2014
53	Slow travel as a research field has increased in popularity in the last decade. The concept started to gain attention through online communities, and tourism researchers have become interested in the possible benefits that slow travel may ha... Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller Year: 2014
52	Think Tank X Sustainable Tourism Networks	5052	Oct 13, 2013
52	This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ... Author: Seldjan Timur Year: 2010
51	Think Tank X Innovation of and in Informal Actor Network	4944	Oct 13, 2013
51	How the informal sectors create and share innovation in gaining competition is very important in tourism development. Commonly, informal sectors are embedded in their routines and lack of innovation capacities. Based on the case of pedicab ... Author: Maya Damayanti Year: 2010
50	OPA award The Managing Local Tourism Master Class: Communicating...	4880	Oct 13, 2013
50	The aim of this paper is to describe an action-based research project entitled the Management Local Tourism Master Class (MLTMC) and to discuss the merits of this extension tool in building sustainable tourism management practices across loc... Author: Dianne Dredge, Emma-Jane Ford & Michelle Whitford Year: 2010 OPA: 2010 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
49	Think Tank VII The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...	4775	Oct 13, 2013
49	The internationally acclaimed Blackstone Valley Tourism Council continues to create a sustainable visitor destination using whole place-making techniques. Under its auspices, the Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development Laboratory share... Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter & Lilly Kayamba Year: 2007
48	Think Tank XI Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...	4773	Oct 14, 2013
48	Since 2002 the Flemish Tourism Board, the executive agency of the Flemish Ministry of Tourism, has implemented different actions to introduce the principles of sustainable tourism into tourism education in Flanders. The general objective is... Author: Griet Geudens & Manuel Minne Year: 2011
47	Think Tank VII Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...	4751	Oct 13, 2013
47	"Operational definitions of tourism sustainability require details regarding what is to be sustained, for whom it is to be sustained, and the level at which it is to be sustained." This is the introductory sentence to "A Dynamic Model of Sus... Author: Timothy Tyrrell & Robert Johnston Year: 2007
46	Think Tank XIV Development of a Certification System for Sustainable ...	4682	Jun 27, 2014
46	Tourism destinations are complex entities that can be defined as geographical areas of different sizes that are being visited by tourists. Most definitions then differentiate between the perspectives of those living in and managing a destina... Author: Wolfgang Strasdas Year: 2014
45	Think Tank XIII Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Capital in...	4577	Nov 06, 2013
45	There is substantial literature on the impacts of tourism on culture, both positive and negative, however, there are relatively few articles that explore the relationship between cultural capital and sustainable tourism. This paper will repo... Author: Laurie Murphy & Andrea Schurmann Year: 2013
44	Think Tank XI Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...	4568	Oct 14, 2013
44	As Sontag (1979) stated, we live in an image-based world within which we are continuously bombarded with visuals in countless formats and guises. However, despite such image saturation, academic engagement whether through teaching or resear... Author: Caroline Scarles Year: 2011
43	Think Tank XIV A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...	4541	Jun 26, 2014
43	Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an... Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer Year: 2014 OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner

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