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Think Tank IX
Labour Justice and Sustainable Tourism: The Centrality...
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6782 | Oct 13, 2013 |
What we value is intricately linked to our morality and our ethics, whether personal or corporate. Sustainability is essentially a statement of morality, embedding as it does the notion of inter- and intra-generational equity. This includes,...
Author: Stephanie Chok & Jim Macbeth
Year: 2009
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313 |
Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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6765 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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312 |
Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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6755 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper details the development, delivery and outcomes of a Masters course in Tourism Development that was delivered by the Royal University of Phnom Penh, with the assistance and support of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and t...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2005
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311 |
Think Tank XII
Are We Moving Towards Education for Sustainability? A ...
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6595 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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310 |
Think Tank VIII
Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...
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6593 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ...
Author: Larry Dwyer
Year: 2008
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309 |
Think Tank XII
Employee Work Attitudes, Mobility and Promotional Oppo...
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6506 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The issue of employee mobility is brought into sharp focus in times of economic and social uncertainty. Previous studies into the causes of employee mobility have investigated, among other determinants, the link between the promotional oppor...
Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Michael Stewart
Year: 2012
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308 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Sustainable Tourism...
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6496 | Jun 26, 2014 |
In this study, I take up the task to work towards a theoretical and methodological framework that allows using sustainability as a threshold concept for critically evaluating the assumptions embedded in both tourism management theory and pra...
Author: José-Carlos García-Rosell
Year: 2014
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307 |
Think Tank X
Implementing Networks of the New Zealand Tourism Strat...
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6488 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The areas of tourism planning and strategy are frequently at the focus of academic enquiry; however, the implementation of the planning results is not. The small number of existing studies suggests that many difficulties associated with pla...
Author: Julia N. Albrecht
Year: 2010
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306 |
Think Tank XIII
Assessing the Impact of Rural Tourism Development on t...
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6436 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Past literature has posited that tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors and has been signified as an attractive investment proposition. Rural tourism sector has been actively promoted by the Malaysian government and currently, it is c...
Author: May-Chiun Lo, Vikneswaran Nair, Peter Songan & Helen Lee HuiHui
Year: 2013
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305 |
Think Tank V
Political Instability and its Effects on Tourism
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6365 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Tourism today is second only to oil as the world’s leading export commodity, accounting for global earnings of more than $300 billion, or nearly 25 per cent of total world GNP (Poirier 2000, p30, cited in Dieke, 2000). Over the last two deca...
Author: Sarah JR Ryu
Year: 2005
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304 |
Think Tank XIII
Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Capital in...
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6344 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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
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303 |
Think Tank VII
The Practical Application of Sustainable Tourism Devel...
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6331 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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302 |
Think Tank IX
The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...
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6230 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ...
Author: Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Year: 2009
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301 |
Think Tank XIII
Understanding Sense of Place in Tourism Development: T...
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6224 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper introduces the rationale for a study which explores the relationship between sense of place and sustainability at Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park (TARP), Sabah. Sense of place encompasses an understanding of the meaning bestowed ...
Author: Paulin Wong Poh Lin & Balvinder Kaur Kler
Year: 2013
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300 |
Think Tank XII
A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport
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6207 | Nov 06, 2013 |
After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...
Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré
Year: 2012
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299 |
Think Tank XIII
The Paradox of poverty amidst the plenty of nature: co...
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6198 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Rural communities in South Africa have not been active stakeholders in tourism development. Community awareness and involvement in the preservation of natural and cultural heritage through sustainable tourism development in selected areas ad...
Author: Felicité A. Fairer-Wessels
Year: 2013
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298 |
Think Tank XIV
The Development of a National Tourism Research Agenda ...
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6165 | Jun 26, 2014 |
A national research agenda identifies the research priorities that need to be addressed to “inform future policy and service delivery” by government and “for use by academics and practitioners to stimulate research, partnerships and collabor...
Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2014
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297 |
Think Tank XIV
Bird-watching Routes as Collaborative Stakeholderships...
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6080 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Although there are numerous birding trails with varying levels of success, prior to this study, little research existed as to how birding trails are designed, implemented and managed. Thus, the study posed and answered the following research...
Author: Krisztian Vas
Year: 2014
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296 |
Think Tank XIV
The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ...
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6076 | Jun 26, 2014 |
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
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295 |
Think Tank IX
The elusiveness of sustainability in tourism: The cult...
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6057 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Sustainable tourism is perhaps the most prominent feature of contemporary tourism discourse. However, despite its prominence for several decades, achieving sustainability remains as elusive as ever. This paper explores the concept of the cu...
Author: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Year: 2009
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