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Think Tank IV
Integration of Theory and Practice in Hospitality Sust...
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8615 | 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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Think Tank V
Tourism Education for Cambodia: A Case Study of its Fi...
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7061 | 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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Think Tank VI
Ecotourism and Environmental Education: Opportunities ...
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152757 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ecotourism, which typically involves nature-based tourism, plays an increasing role in today's environmental management. As environmental conservation has, in many cases, suffered from a limited budget, funding ecotourism is perceived as a w...
Author: Aphirom Promchanya
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VI
Service Learning in Tourism Educational Programs – A S...
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4247 | Oct 13, 2013 |
A problem in developing new tourism markets remains how to resource them from an existing employment base. Key questions arising are: Do current tourism enterprises have the existing skills to move into these new markets for sustainable tour...
Author: Susan Anita Briggs
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VII
Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity...
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2159 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201...
Author: Pauline Sheldon
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VII
Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar...
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9151 | 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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Think Tank VII
The New World of Travel 2.0: Application of Social Sof...
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7788 | Oct 13, 2013 |
"Web 2.0" is a term used to refer to the emerging new wave of innovation on the Internet. Some see it as a second high-tech wave, marking the recovery from the technology and Internet "bust" at the end of the 1990s (O'Reilly 2005). Character...
Author: Alan A. Lew
Year: 2007
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Think Tank VIII
Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...
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4827 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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Think Tank VIII
Education’s Impact on Cultural Distance Perception: Th...
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3381 | Oct 13, 2013 |
As an international tourism destination, Turkey serves mostly European tourist markets due to her closeness to European markets. Turkey and Europe has a long shared history of relationships. However, Turkey and Turkish people have a rather b...
Author: Yasin Boylu, Asli D. A. Tasci & William C. Gartner
Year: 2008
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21 |
Think Tank VIII
Environmental Education and Ecotourism: A Case Study o...
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8739 | 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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Think Tank IX
The Role of Values in Sustainable Tourism Education
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4154 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This presentation discusses the role of values in the context of sustainable tourism education. However, it does not seek to engage in the debate about the definition of Sustainable Tourism nor the differences between this concept and Sustai...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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10756 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st...
Author: Marina Novelli
Year: 2009
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Think Tank IX
Valuing Open Innovation Environments in Tourism Educat...
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5845 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The world has changed tremendously since the publication of Our Common Future by the World Commission for Environment and Development (1987), which elevated the concept of sustainable development from grassroots initiatives to the forefront...
Author: Janne Liburd & Anne-Mette Hjalager
Year: 2009
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Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy and Student Community Col...
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16714 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There have been increasing calls to move away from the traditional disciplinary structures and research, teaching and learning approaches that have tended to ‘tunnel’ student learning and reinforce particular worldviews towards new forms of ...
Author: Tazim Jamal, Justin Taillon & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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16 |
Think Tank X
Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a...
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5482 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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15 |
Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Labels: A Suitable Tool for Consum...
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3164 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In an attempt to encourage businesses making an effort to reduce the negative impacts of tourism, and to maximise the positive outcomes of this activity an extensive number of sustainable tourism labels were developed worldwide. It has been...
Author: Sofia Reino
Year: 2011
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Think Tank XI
Sustainable Tourism Course Structure and Associated St...
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14393 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The author has developed and delivered Sustainable Tourism (S.T.) related courses at Institutions of Higher Education in Paris, London, Helsinki, and Parnu, Estonia over the last 10 years. The focus of the presentation would be the S.T. con...
Author: James Holleran
Year: 2011
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13 |
Think Tank XI
Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris...
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5646 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Since 2002 the Flemish Tourism Board, the executive agency of the Flemish Ministry of Tourism, has implemented different actions to introduce the principles of sustainable tourism into tourism education in Flanders. The general objective is...
Author: Griet Geudens & Manuel Minne
Year: 2011
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Think Tank XI
Identifying Critical Issues in Designing Educational T...
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3581 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Education is seen as an important way to contribute to development. The World Bank finances educational projects with large amounts of money every year because it is convinced that improving education can help alleviate poverty by raising i...
Author: Kerstin Freudenthaler & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2011
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11 |
Think Tank XI
What Do Tourism Students Know About Sustainability and...
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12418 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The topic of sustainable tourism education has only recently started to emerge in the tourism literature. A few tourism scholars have raised concerns about the need to prepare future tourism professionals for real life planning and manageme...
Author: Blanca A. Camargo & Ulrike Gretzel
Year: 2011
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