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Think Tank VIII
Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...
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4903 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Dominant tourist satisfaction measures, typically tied to service quality, have recently received much criticism by senior tourism academics (Ryan, 1995; Kozak, 2001; Pearce, 2005). These prominent tourism scholars commonly refer to very sim...
Author: Sebastian Filep
Year: 2008
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144 |
Think Tank VIII
Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...
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6854 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper has five aims. First, to discuss the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the method of its construction. If the TTCI is to have policy significance it is essential that its components be identified and analysed as ...
Author: Larry Dwyer
Year: 2008
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143 |
Think Tank VIII
Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...
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7950 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ...
Author: Miha Bratec
Year: 2008
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142 |
Think Tank VIII
Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...
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9170 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Employment is one of the important requirements for the integration of disabled people to daily life. The tourism industry is one of Turkey’s important industries with a great potential for growth. However this growth must be a planned and ...
Author: Sabah Balta & Murat Bengisu
Year: 2008
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141 |
Think Tank VIII
Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...
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6388 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive infrastructure and client expectations of luxury will mean that their carbon footprint and water usage is likely to exceed significantly that of average urban households. Often located in coastal or riverine settings, they are vuln...
Author: Charles Arcodia & Chantal Dickson
Year: 2008
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140 |
Think Tank IX
Courchevel, an outstanding alpine ski resort at a turn...
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8091 | Oct 13, 2013 |
“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
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139 |
Think Tank IX
Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai...
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5876 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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138 |
Think Tank IX
Ethical Confusion and Confusion of Ethics: Unpacking t...
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2510 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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137 |
Think Tank IX
Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a...
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8058 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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136 |
Think Tank IX
Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust...
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10759 | 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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135 |
Think Tank IX
Achieving Sustainability in Business Events; Challengi...
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3701 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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134 |
Think Tank IX
Sustainable Tourism Development Plan for the Old City ...
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8114 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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133 |
Think Tank IX
De-constructing the Cosmopolitan Gaze
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3203 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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132 |
Think Tank IX
The elusiveness of sustainability in tourism: The cult...
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6300 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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131 |
Think Tank IX
The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou...
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6537 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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130 |
Think Tank IX
Valuing water: Perceived differences in attitude and u...
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4963 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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129 |
Think Tank IX
Tourism Price Competitiveness: a neglected ‘value’ in ...
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3544 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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128 |
Think Tank IX
Values: Dollars, trees or feelings?
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2680 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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127 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8435 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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126 |
Think Tank IX
The West in the East: Conflict in the Values of Volunt...
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4440 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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
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