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Key words: SoMe, Small medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTE’s), Sustainability, Tourism.
Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and developing diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors worldwide. Every year the tourism industry has experienced steady growth. International tourist a...
Author: Toshima Makoondlall-Chadee, Chandradeo Bokhoree, Deepa Sumputh
Year: 2017
Many Australian tourism ventures today promote Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge (AIBK) (Pert, Ens, Locke, Clarke, Packer & Turpin, 2015) through bush-tucker tours, interpretive displays in cultural centres, arts and crafts, et...
Author: Gabrielle McGinnis & Mark Harvey & Ian D. Clark & Tamara Young
Earlier studies have stimulated much debate regarding enclave tourism development in developing countries (Britton 1982). However, it is increasingly being acknowledged that despite criticisms, all forms of tourism have the potential to cont...
Author: Perunjodi Naidoo
The contribution of the tourism sector towards the development of host nations is undeniable in that it provides several benefits such as creation of employment, generation of added value and tax revenue, and boosting of inward foreign direc...
Author: Robin Nunkoo & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Boopen Seetanah & Robin Sannassee
Since the advent of liberalisation of the aviation industry in the late 1970s, many countries have adopted the liberal policy in air transport and entered bilateral air service agreements, often referred to as “open skies agreements” (OSAs),...
Author: Priscilla Chau Min Poon
The tourism literature on the relationship between resilience and sustainability is still in its infancy. Some argue that resilience planning has emerged as an alternative to sustainable development to provide new perspectives on socio-ecolo...
Author: Girish Prayag & Caroline Orchiston & Mesbahuddin Chowdhury
The research is funded by the Centre for the Development of Enterprise and with the guidance of the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD. The authors would like to thank Pablo LoMoro at the International Trade Centre for his considerable sup...
Author: Andrew Rylance & Anna Spenceley
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
Route-based tourism on walking, hiking and cycling routes is experiencing resurgence throughout the world (Collins-Kreiner, 2010) and can be a driver of sustainable development, particularly for remote areas (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004;...
Author: Anna Scuttari & Isidoro De Bortoli & Harald Pechlaner & Hannes Riegler
The existing literature is fraught with empirical studies delineating the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth. However, the results are at best inconclusive. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to investigate the unde...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Robin Nunkoo & Raja Vinesh Sannassee & Paul Georges Warren Moraghen & Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur
Loyalty of customers is recognized as a key ingredient for the success of organisations. A 5% increase in customer retention has been linked to 85% increase in profits (Reichfield and Sasser, 1990). As noted by Assael (1984), long term organ...
Author: Boopendra Seetanah & Viraiyan Teeroovengadum & Kesseven Padachi
This paper presents research commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s African Natural Resources Center (ANRC), that aimed to to identify and summarise existing monitoring data being gathered by national tourism authorities and i...
Author: Anna Spenceley
The project "E-Destination” funded by Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) aims to show whether and in what form electro-mobility can play a bigger role regarding tourism in the rural region of Lake Constance (in German: Bodensee), Baden-...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Tourism is a rapidly growing industry and has far-reaching economic, social and environmental impact. The rapid growth of tourism is a challenge for many destinations. But growth in tourist numbers is not the only reason for the many problem...
Author: Fabian Weber
Sustainability and eco-friendliness is gaining considerable attention within the hotel industry (Chen, Sloan & Legrand, 2009; Kim & Han, 2010). There has been a growing awareness of the environmental and social influence of hotel ope...
Author: Julia Zimmermann & Matthias Straub
Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand
Author: Julia Nina Albrecht
Year: 2018
Author: Ida Marie Visbech Andersen
Key words: food waste, food signage, sustainability, experiment
Author: Hannes Antonschmidt & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
Key words: Sustainable Tourism Products, Sustainable tourism certification schemes, Certification
Author: Martin Balas & Wolfgang Strasdas
Key words: Green events, sustainability communication, theory of planned behaviour, transtheoretical model, structure equation model
Author: Elias Butzmann & Christina Tölkes
Key words: sustainable urban tourism, urban regeneration, precincts, Johannesburg Maboneng
Author: Felicite A Fairer-Wessels & Emma J Pearse