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Think Tank XV
Deconstruction of Man-nature Dialogue Nexus: A Critica...
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8812 | 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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164 |
OPA award
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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8664 | 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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163 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8416 | 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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162 |
Think Tank XII
Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom...
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8299 | 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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161 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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8085 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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160 |
Think Tank IX
Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...
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8055 | Oct 13, 2013 |
“Courchevel is first and foremost one among the founding elements of the huge touristic complex of les Trois Vallées in France. Linked to the neighbouring Allues and Belleville valleys by a 3,000 acres network area of regularly packed and ma...
Author: Daniel Tixier
Year: 2009
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159 |
Think Tank IX
Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...
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8041 | 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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158 |
OPA award
Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...
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8012 | 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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157 |
Think Tank VII
Environmentally Sustainable Practices of Victorian Tou...
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7965 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Environmental sustainability has been a growing concern in our society for the past twenty years, and is a primary issue of many leaders of the tourism industry. In spite of the many efforts to encourage and/or enforce environmentally sound ...
Author: Sue Beeton, Sue Bergin-Seers & Christine Lee
Year: 2007
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156 |
Think Tank VI
Hilton Environmental Reporting as a Tool of Corporate ...
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7933 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on the history, criteria and procedures within Hilton Environmental Reporting, a computerized reporting tool created by Addsystems for Hilton International. The development and implementation process of the upgraded versi...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz
Year: 2006
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155 |
OPA award
Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them?
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7926 | 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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154 |
Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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7925 | 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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153 |
Think Tank XII
Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun...
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7921 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ...
Author: Julia Albrecht
Year: 2012
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152 |
Think Tank XI
CRS 2.0: Management Perspectives of Sustainable Hospit...
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7904 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In recent years, hotel companies have recognized the importance of engaging in responsible business practices as they relate to stakeholders including employees, guests, and the communities in which their properties are located. Accordingly...
Author: Stuart E. Levy & Sun-Young Park
Year: 2011
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151 |
Think Tank VI
Testing Clarkson’s Typical Corporate and Stakeholder I...
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7850 | Oct 13, 2013 |
In today’s world of growing concern over the social and environmental effect of tourism, the responsibility for the future of our society is moving from simply relying on our political leaders and interest groups towards the concept that cor...
Author: Catrina Papaleo & Sue Beeton
Year: 2006
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150 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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7777 | 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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149 |
Think Tank VI
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: CSR, Film and Tourism....
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7741 | 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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148 |
OPA award
Stakeholder involvement, culture and accountability in...
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7653 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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147 |
Think Tank X
Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...
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7461 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci...
Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand
Year: 2010
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146 |
Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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7404 | 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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