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Author : Dagmar Lund-Durlacher & Carolin Brewi
School/Work Place : MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Contact : dagmar.lund-durlacher@modul.ac.at
Year : 2014

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained increasing importance in the tourism industry over the past two decades, making it a central aspect of many business strategies. Many international hotel corporations have integrated CSR policies and today, many hotel chains publish not only comprehensive annual CSR reports but also disclose their CSR practices on their corporate websites, press releases and advertising campaigns (de Grosbois 2012). One major question refers to how international hotel corporations manage their CSR policies and strategies and govern the implementation of these in their numerous properties which are located all over the world. Previous research has revealed that chain-wide CSR strategies and what parts of it are actually applied at the hotels vary considerably (Font et al., 2012). This research aims at providing further insight into the management and implementation process of corporate strategies in individual hotels and critically assesses the causes for the “disclosure-performance gap” identified by Font et al. (2012) and de Grosbois (2012). Moreover, a focus was put on the management processes governing the implementation and controlling of chain-wide strategies at the properties, to provide insight into the implementation and monitoring processes of international hotel chains.


List of Articles
No. Subject Views Datesort
154 Think Tank XIV The Development of a National Tourism Research Agenda ... file 6799 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 

153 Think Tank XIV Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t... file 2902 Jun 26, 2014

Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...

Author: Patricia C. Johnson 

Year: 2014 

152 Think Tank XIV Leadership at the Nexus: Exploring the Connection betw... file 4336 Jun 26, 2014

The development of sustainable and competitive tourism destinations is contingent upon many factors including the creation of inclusive policy (Pforr, 2006), the development and implementation of strategic plans (Jordan, Vogt, Kruger, and Gr...

Author: Whitney Knollenberg & Nancy Gard McGehee 

Year: 2014 

151 Think Tank XIV Heritage Trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in ... file 4893 Jun 26, 2014

One of the beneficial methodologies for growing and developing a level of tourism which is sustainable and enhances the totality of local and regional environments is a multi-stakeholder approach to tourism development. In this paper, we pre...

Author: Marko Koscak 

Year: 2014 

150 Think Tank XIV Influence of Assets and Capital Structure on the Perfo... file 3753 Jun 26, 2014

The global economic and financial crisis could be seen as old news according to the UNWTO’s data on international tourist arrivals. Europe recorded a solid 5% growth in 2013, and Mediterranean countries performed even better with 6% growth i...

Author: Kir Kuščer & Domen Trobec 

Year: 2014 

149 Think Tank XIV Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f... file 4464 Jun 26, 2014

Transport is a vital and integral component of the tourism system yet it contributes the most emissions in tourism (Dubois, Peeters, Ceron, & Gössling, 2011; Peeters & Dubois, 2010). In line with the global concerns for sustainabilit...

Author: Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn 

Year: 2014 

» Think Tank XIV Implementation and Governance of Hotel Chain's CSR pol... file 34047 Jun 26, 2014

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained increasing importance in the tourism industry over the past two decades, making it a central aspect of many business strategies. Many international hotel corporations have integrated CSR polic...

Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher & Carolin Brewi 

Year: 2014 

147 Think Tank XIV Values in Tourism Higher Education: the Case of Europe... file 9501 Jun 26, 2014

The primary rationale for embedding values-based learning in tourism higher education is to engage students’ learning-to-learn and learning-to-be, rather than simply learning about a topic, such as tourism management or sustainability (Libur...

Author: Tanja Mihalič, Janne J. Liburd & Jaume Guia 

Year: 2014 

146 Think Tank XIV Residents' Support for Tourism from the Standpoint of ... file 4001 Jun 26, 2014

Therefore, being of a different nature than sustainability pillars, political sustainability (Mihalic et al., 2012) is a requirement for sustainable tourism development (Edgell, DelMastro Allen, Smith & Swanson, 2008; UNWTO, 2004). This ...

Author: Tanja Mihalič, Tina Šegota, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar, Kir Kuščer 

Year: 2014 

145 Think Tank XIV The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ... file 6506 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 

144 Think Tank XIV Tourism Development as Greek Tragedy: Implications for... file 25400 Jun 26, 2014

Although tourism has been used as a development strategy in many parts of the world for several decades, there is little evidence that it is an effective tool for improving the wellbeing of destination communities. It is not uncommon to find...

Author: Gianna Moscardo, Anna Blackman & Laurie Murphy 

Year: 2014 

143 Think Tank XIV Tropical Communities as Resources for Tourism or Touri... file 48771 Jun 26, 2014

The purpose of this paper is to review the barriers to sustainable tourism development faced by rural and developing regions and to explore the notion of tourism and its potential contribution to community well-being, with a focus on Flora’s...

Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo & Anna Blackman 

Year: 2014 

142 Think Tank XIV Assessing Samui Island's Sustainable Tourism Policies ... file 12838 Jun 26, 2014

Since 2009, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) promoted sustainable tourism practices through its – 7 Greens Concept, which is similar to the main global trends towards sustainable tourism. The 7 Greens Concept includes Green Heart, Gre...

Author: Attama Nilnoppakun, Krissada Pornprapa, Nattapong Boonlue & Kreagrit Ampawat 

Year: 2014 

141 Think Tank XIV Development of a Certification System for Sustainable ... file 5813 Jun 27, 2014

Tourism destinations are complex entities that can be defined as geographical areas of different sizes that are being visited by tourists. Most definitions then differentiate between the perspectives of those living in and managing a destina...

Author: Wolfgang Strasdas 

Year: 2014 

140 Think Tank XIV Local Networks as Sustainable Policy Instruments: A Ca... file 4467 Jun 27, 2014

In this case study, a communication network among local hotel managers was examined, first to assess the extent of communication among hotel managers, and second to identify influential members within the network. Communication with respect ...

Author: Karen Irene Thal & Tracy Burkett 

Year: 2014 

139 Think Tank XIV Can "Slow Travel" Contribute to Sustainable Tourism? file 6138 Jun 27, 2014

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 

138 Think Tank XIV Bird-watching Routes as Collaborative Stakeholderships... file 12111 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 

137 Think Tank XIV Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak... file 5508 Jun 27, 2014

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 

136 Think Tank XIV Exploring the potential of Community Based Ecotourism ... file 5370 Jun 27, 2014

Development in developing countries often results in mass land-use change and subsequent increase in greenhouse gas emission by deforestation or forest degradation. For instance, approximately a-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions was a...

Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton, Amy Reggers & Hanna Sakata 

Year: 2014 

135 Think Tank XIV Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge... file 11474 Jul 07, 2014

David's presentation outlines the major market failures in tourism production and consumption and questions the changing role of (public sector) governments in market regulation and ‘economic’ development. The presentation focuses specifical...

Author: David G. Simmons 

Year: 2014 

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