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No.	Subject	Views	Date
16	Think Tank VIII Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events:...	103912	Oct 13, 2013
16	The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a range of performances. The Wadden Sea Fest... Author: Janne J. Liburd & Anja Hergesell Year: 2008
15	Think Tank VIII Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...	70635	Oct 13, 2013
15	This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag... Author: David Foster Year: 2008
14	Think Tank VIII A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...	9974	Oct 13, 2013
14	The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the last years, which led to an increasing amount of research that has analysed both the economic and social impacts of sport events. Whereas a substantial amount of ex post assessment fr... Author: Nico Schulenkorf Year: 2008 OPA: 2008 Runner Up
13	Think Tank VIII Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...	9171	Oct 13, 2013
13	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
12	Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...	7951	Oct 13, 2013
12	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
11	Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...	7807	Dec 19, 2013
11	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
10	Think Tank VIII Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...	6854	Oct 13, 2013
10	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
9	Think Tank VIII Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...	6392	Oct 13, 2013
9	Extensive infrastructure and client expectations of luxury will mean that their carbon footprint and water usage is likely to exceed significantly that of average urban households. Often located in coastal or riverine settings, they are vuln... Author: Charles Arcodia & Chantal Dickson Year: 2008
8	Think Tank VIII Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...	4904	Oct 13, 2013
8	Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very sim... Author: Sebastian Filep Year: 2008
7	Think Tank VIII Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...	4828	Oct 13, 2013
7	The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s... Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle Year: 2008
6	Think Tank VIII An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Lif...	3795	Oct 13, 2013
6	Quality of life studies are usually either objective or subjective in nature. Objective quality of life studies concentrate on social indicators whereas subjective quality of life studies attempt to assess the perceived satisfaction that in... Author: Turgut Var, Erhan Ada, Gökce Ozdemir & Deniz Hasirci Year: 2008
5	Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o...	3367	Oct 13, 2013
5	Global economic and political change has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration flows resulting in unprecedented transformation in the form and condition of impacted communities (Woods, 2006). This increase in human migration to ar... Author: Alison M. Gill Year: 2008
4	Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...	3202	Oct 13, 2013
4	Almost all the academic literature on tourism impacts has focussed on the consequences of tourism for the destination and its residents. Very little attention has been paid to the impacts of tourism on tourists. Virtually all cost-benefit an... Author: Gianna Moscardo Year: 2008
3	Think Tank VIII Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism ...	2957	Oct 13, 2013
3	‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the sustainability of their offer. One can henc... Author: Maud Tixier Year: 2008
2	Think Tank VIII A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind...	2827	Oct 13, 2013
2	The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green b... Author: Claudia Jurowski Year: 2008
1	Think Tank VIII Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...	2301	Oct 13, 2013
1	Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev... Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall Year: 2008

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