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An introduction of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council and Criteria

Author :	Kelly Bricker
School/Work Place :	University of Utah, USA
Contact :	kelly.bricker@health.utah.edu
Year :	2011

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the Global Sustainable Tourism Council and Criteria, in an effort to encourage the Criteria as part of a framework for sustainable tourism education. The history of the GSTC and Criteria will be provided as well as an overview of various programs and educational resources available.

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125	Think Tank V Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...	5925	Dec 14, 2013
125	Many tourism professionals are afraid to speak about terms such as tourism security and tourism safety. There is a common feeling among tourism and travel professionals that these terms will frighten customers and that the less said the bett... Author: Peter E. Tarlow Year: 2005 OPA: Keynote Speech
124	Think Tank XI Visualising Sustainability: Reflections on Applied Stu...	5880	Oct 14, 2013
124	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
123	Think Tank IX Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...	5874	Oct 13, 2013
123	This paper proposes a simple model that depicts the relationship between community and extra-community stakeholders that will enable the effective development of sustainable tourism. “Sustainable tourism” in this paper is defined as tourism ... Author: Asami Shikida, Mami Yoda, Akiko Kino & Masayuki Morishige Year: 2009
122	Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org...	5856	Oct 13, 2013
122	Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important issue for some governments but the tourism industry appears to be slow in adopting CSR strategies. By focusing on CSR, we argue that the implementation of CSR audits could help t... Author: Ya-Ting Huang, David Botterill & Eleri Jones Year: 2006
121	Think Tank XIV Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism?	5810	Jun 27, 2014
121	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
120	Think Tank XII Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:...	5805	Nov 06, 2013
120	This paper examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export ... Author: Mondher Sahli & Simon Carey Year: 2012
119	Think Tank XII Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch...	5727	Nov 06, 2013
119	The travel between home and destination is a key element of any holiday and has received increasing attention by tourism scholars as its environmental and particularly its climatic impacts have become widely recognized (Gössling 2002; Metz, ... Author: Astrid Dickinger & Anja Hergesell Year: 2012
118	Think Tank IV Attitudes towards Environmental Responsibility among S...	5717	Oct 13, 2013
118	The first step in creating a more environmentally sound hotel industry should be a performance analysis of the hotel sector from an environmental perspective. An assessment measuring the level of environmental awareness among hoteliers and t... Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Vlasta Zanki-Alujevic & Ivo Martinac Year: 2004
117	Think Tank IV Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...	5691	Dec 01, 2013
117	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
116	Think Tank VII Practical Interpretations of a Dynamic Model of Sustai...	5676	Oct 13, 2013
116	"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
115	Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility in the Museum Sector a...	5601	Oct 13, 2013
115	Out of a growing concern about the erosion of social infrastructure has come an increase in pressure on business to take up more of the responsibility in meeting community needs (Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 2000; Loza & Ogilvie... Author: Deborah Edwards Year: 2006
114	Think Tank X Climate Change Mitigation among Accommodation Provider...	5553	Oct 13, 2013
114	This paper explores the relationship between network membership and innovation towards more sustainable tourism development. In particular it examines the extent to which tourism businesses have introduced measures to mitigate the effects of... Author: Tim Coles, Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner & Claire Dinan Year: 2010
113	Think Tank X Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...	5515	Oct 13, 2013
113	The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields o... Author: Maeve Morrissey, Kevin Griffin & Sheila Flanagan Year: 2010
112	Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Travel & Tourism B...	5502	Oct 13, 2013
112	This paper discusses some economic, social, and environmental “hard issues” for the travel and tourism (T&T) industry with the aim of shedding some light on little discussed aspects of industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) with ... Author: David Stipanuk Year: 2006
111	Think Tank XII Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme...	5481	Nov 06, 2013
111	While there has been a developing interest in mobilities amongst tourism scholars, the notion of immobilities has often been ignored. Yet, there are many people who do not participate in tourism or, if they do, only experience partial mobili... Author: Jennifer Small Year: 2012
110	Think Tank X Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...	5478	Oct 13, 2013
110	As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi... Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber Year: 2010
109	Think Tank XI Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun...	5424	Oct 14, 2013
109	Sustainability has long been a theme in the tourism research and planning literature and is a growing concern in the wider area of business and corporate management. Consequent to these trends in practice and research there has been a growt... Author: Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo & Laurie Murphy Year: 2011
108	Think Tank XII Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par...	5322	Nov 06, 2013
108	Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co... Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal Year: 2012
107	Think Tank XIV Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak...	5303	Jun 27, 2014
107	This paper looks at the development of an ecotrekking industry on the Kokoda Track and demonstrates how the use of participatory methods in community based tourism can align two different “regimes of truth” (that of the community and of the ... Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton & Amy Reggers Year: 2014
106	Think Tank XIV Psychological Empowerment as Good Policy for Governanc...	5276	Jun 26, 2014
106	The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential impact psychological empowerment can have on sustainable tourism policy objectives, including improving resident attitudes toward tourism, enhancing destination competitiveness, and maint... Author: B. Bynum Boley & Nancy Gard McGehee Year: 2014

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