354 |
Think Tank XIII
Sustainable Tourism in Kerala - Chances for Local Comm...
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8907 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The Indian state Kerala is positioned by Kerala Tourism as a sustainable tourism destination for domestic and foreign markets (cf. Jean-Francois 2011). Indeed sustainable tourism projects take place and are conducted either by NGOs like Kaba...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2013
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353 |
Think Tank VIII
Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...
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8880 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ...
Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu
Year: 2008
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352 |
OPA award
Cultural values in sustainable tourism: Conflicts betw...
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8798 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper evaluates cultural conflicts between indigenous groups, recreation users and management agencies over the appropriate amenity use of protected areas in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It assesses both social values conflicts ...
Author: Heather Zeppel
Year: 2009
OPA: 2009 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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351 |
Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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8756 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Recent challenges within the hospitality industry highlight a critical need for research and innovation to inform management practice. Surprisingly, however, a comprehensive review of literature has found that innovation research within the...
Author: Conrad Lashley & Barry O'Mahony
Year: 2007
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350 |
Think Tank XV
Deconstruction of Man-nature Dialogue Nexus: A Critica...
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8565 | Jul 27, 2015 |
The relationship between man and nature dates back to the millennia. The intimacy of man-nature interaction increased with decreasing healthy nature, as man’s insatiable desire to know and control nature as a commodity becomes more dynamical...
Author: Michael Kweku Commeh
Year: 2015
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349 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility or Government Interven...
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8401 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Implicit in notions of sustainable development is an holistic triple bottom line approach that seeks to preserve essential ecological processes, protect human heritage and biodiversity and foster inter and intra-generational equity whilst r...
Author: David Wood & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2006
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348 |
Think Tank IV
Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust...
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8393 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This brief paper describes a new educational model developed at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) to link theory and practice, or more specifically, coordinate learning opportunities between the classroom (Sustainable Tourism) and current pr...
Author: James Holleran
Year: 2004
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347 |
Think Tank VIII
Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o...
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8388 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In this paper we take the standpoint that environmental education and ecotourism are highly related and depend on each other, and that ecotourism cannot be achieved without proper environmental education. Furthermore, in order to achieve qu...
Author: Mojca Arsenijevic & Marko Bohanec
Year: 2008
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346 |
OPA award
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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8199 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...
Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee
Year: 2013
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345 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8116 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...
Author: Ian Chaplin
Year: 2009
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344 |
Think Tank XII
Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...
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8002 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...
Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller
Year: 2012
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343 |
Think Tank XIV
Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe...
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7792 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The primary rationale for embedding values-based learning in tourism higher education is to engage students’ learning-to-learn and learning-to-be, rather than simply learning about a topic, such as tourism management or sustainability (Libur...
Author: Tanja Mihalič, Janne J. Liburd & Jaume Guia
Year: 2014
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342 |
Think Tank IX
Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...
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7705 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper explores the concept of quality of life (QOL) as perceived by residents in tourism destinations and examines differences in perceptions of QOL among culturally different destinations. The perceived QOL of local community is an imp...
Author: Yvette Reisinger & Kwang-Soo Park
Year: 2009
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341 |
OPA award
Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...
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7668 | Dec 01, 2013 |
Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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340 |
Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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7626 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ...
Author: Miha Bratec
Year: 2008
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339 |
OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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7600 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...
Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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338 |
Think Tank V
Ideas for A(u)ction: Tourism Risk Management
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7572 | Dec 14, 2013 |
As a contribution to BEST Education Network ThinkTank V, Managing Riskand Crisis for Sustainable Tourism, the following paper has been prepared in two parts. The first part of the paper focuses on the idea that an appropriate model can be de...
Author: Scott K. Cunliffe
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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337 |
Think Tank IX
Malay Small Family Business Values
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7532 | Dec 19, 2013 |
In Malaysia approximately 90% of the businesses are categorized as small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The majority of these small businesses are family owned and make a significant contribution to Malaysian Gross Domestic Product. The prev...
Author: Askiah Jamaluddin & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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336 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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7527 | Dec 19, 2013 |
This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...
Author: Kitsada Tungchawal
Year: 2008
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335 |
Think Tank VI
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....
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7473 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on an element of an ongoing research project undertaken since 1999 in relation to the effects of film-induced tourism on a small community based in North Yorkshire, England, namely Goathland. Goathland is better known to ...
Author: Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
OPA: 2006 Runner Up
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