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No.	Subject	Views	Date
16	Think Tank IX Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...	8091	Oct 13, 2013
16	“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
15	Think Tank IX Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...	5879	Oct 13, 2013
15	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
14	Think Tank IX Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t...	2511	Oct 13, 2013
14	For many decades authors (see Sontag, 1976, Baederholt, 2006, Chalfern, 1979, Crang, 1997) have recognised the fundamental role of photography within tourism. Many such as Urry (1999, 2002), Crouch (2000, 2002) and Crouch & Lubbren (200... Author: Caroline Scarles Year: 2009
13	Think Tank IX Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...	8059	Oct 13, 2013
13	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
12	Think Tank IX Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...	10760	Oct 13, 2013
12	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
11	Think Tank IX Achieving Sustainability in Business Events; Challengi...	3705	Oct 13, 2013
11	Achieving sustainability is a challenge for all of society, but one that may prove especially problematic for the business events sector. Tourism in general and the business events industry in particular may be even more susceptible than oth... Author: Judith Mair & Leo Jago Year: 2009
10	Think Tank IX Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...	8115	Oct 13, 2013
10	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
9	Think Tank IX De-constructing the Cosmopolitan Gaze	3203	Oct 13, 2013
9	Introduction: Nurturing effective intercultural dialogue through tourism has been positioned to be an emergent challenge to tourism professionals working toward sustainability in a globalised world (Robinson and Picard 2006). This interdisci... Author: Patricia Johnson Year: 2009
8	Think Tank IX The elusiveness of sustainability in tourism: The cult...	6302	Oct 13, 2013
8	Sustainable tourism is perhaps the most prominent feature of contemporary tourism discourse. However, despite its prominence for several decades, achieving sustainability remains as elusive as ever. This paper explores the concept of the cu... Author: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles Year: 2009
7	Think Tank IX The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...	6537	Oct 13, 2013
7	The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ... Author: Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher Year: 2009
6	Think Tank IX Valuing water: Perceived differences in attitude and u...	4964	Oct 13, 2013
6	The recent explosion of second home development in tourism areas around the world is a reflection not only of the increased mobility of capital and people associated with the effects of globalization but also the development models employed ... Author: Alison M. Gill, Peter W. Williams & Shelagh Thompson Year: 2009
5	Think Tank IX Tourism Price Competitiveness: a neglected ‘value’ in ...	3551	Oct 13, 2013
5	Price competitiveness is one of the most important factors in the overall tourism competitiveness of a country or a destination. There is widely accepted evidence that prices are one of the most important factors in decisions about whether, ... Author: Larry Dwyer & Peter Forsyth Year: 2009
4	Think Tank IX Values: Dollars, trees or feelings?	2685	Oct 13, 2013
4	The importance of values to tourism is but one aspect of the importance of values in human interactions with the natural environment and even more broadly to the human condition. However, attempts to understand the impact of values on behav... Author: Denise Dillon Year: 2009
3	Think Tank IX Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...	8437	Oct 13, 2013
3	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
2	Think Tank IX The West in the East: Conflict in the Values of Volunt...	4440	Oct 13, 2013
2	Consequently, the aim of this research was to explore the complexity of trying to work within a framework of sustainability, with a given number of stakeholders (in this case, a UK organisation, its customers (volunteers, primarily British) ... Author: Angela M. Benson Year: 2009
1	Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...	7443	Oct 13, 2013
1	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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