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Author : Christian Schott
School/Work Place : Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Contact : christian.schott@vuw.ac.nz
Year : 2012

Due to the financial constraints on the part of the educational institution as well as the student, offsetting the GHG emissions generated by the fieldtrip is often not regarded as financially feasible, or subject to doubts about the integrity and implementation of carbon-offsetting. Furthermore, there are other pressures such as increasing institutional concern about liability issues which pose further challenges to the fieldtrip tradition. Positioned in this context, the notion of a ‘virtual’ fieldtrip supported by students conducting real fieldwork offers a very attractive option to harness many of the pedagogical benefits of real fieldtrips, while minimising the production of GHG emissions. Innovation in the form of significant advances in virtual reality software over the last decade is at the heart of this opportunity, which allows students to learn about the rationale for and practice of sustainable development in a very vivid manner while minimising their own contribution to environmentally unsustainable activities. The overarching aim of the paper then is to discuss the concept of virtual fieldtrips as a mechanism to directly and indirectly reduce GHG emissions through innovative use of ICT. Specifically, the paper’s aims are as follows:

  • Provide a brief overview of how a virtual fieldtrip can be implemented
  • Examine the reduction in GHG emissions achieved by conducting a virtual instead of a real fieldtrip
  • Discuss the climate change-related educational implications of conducting a virtual fieldtrip which focuses on sustainable tourism development

List of Articles
No. Subject Views Datesort
214 Think Tank XII Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo... file 6423 Nov 06, 2013

Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ...

Author: Tatjana Thimm 

Year: 2012 

213 Think Tank XII The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca... file 20500 Nov 06, 2013

Nature-based tourism is a form of travel that is often believed to lend itself more to sustainable development than other tourism segments. In fact, the concept of ecotourism – defined as nature tourism that is sustainable – was developed in...

Author: Wolfgang Strasdas 

Year: 2012 

212 Think Tank XII Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas... file 16820 Nov 06, 2013

Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano...

Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul 

Year: 2012 

211 Think Tank XII Intersecting Mobilities: Tourists with Vision Impairme... file 5730 Nov 06, 2013

While there has been a developing interest in mobilities amongst tourism scholars, the notion of immobilities has often been ignored. Yet, there are many people who do not participate in tourism or, if they do, only experience partial mobili...

Author: Jennifer Small 

Year: 2012 

210 Think Tank XII Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit... file 35857 Nov 06, 2013

Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ...

Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Runner Up 

» Think Tank XII Virtual Mobilities and Sustainable Tourism: Virtual Fi... file 3200 Nov 06, 2013

Due to the financial constraints on the part of the educational institution as well as the student, offsetting the GHG emissions generated by the fieldtrip is often not regarded as financially feasible, or subject to doubts about the integri...

Author: Christian Schott 

Year: 2012 

208 Think Tank XII Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:... file 5991 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export ...

Author: Mondher Sahli & Simon Carey 

Year: 2012 

207 Think Tank XII Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 4033 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

206 OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 8117 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

205 Think Tank XII Residents' Perceptions on Event Impacts an Relocation ... file 3647 Nov 06, 2013

Social exchange theory and the mobility paradigm are used to understand residents’ perceptions on the impacts of the 2012 Olympic Games and their relocation intentions. Confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 212 residents of London city...

Author: Girish Prayag & Talia Alders 

Year: 2012 

204 Think Tank XII A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport file 6845 Nov 06, 2013

After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...

Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré 

Year: 2012 

203 Think Tank XII Unsustainable Travel Development: The Case of Aviation... file 3863 Nov 06, 2013

Considering the apparent importance of low-cost aviation, and its dramatic development, there is remarkably little research done about its consequences on European mobility. A few studies have mapped the development of networks (cf. Dobruszk...

Author: Jan Henrik Nilsson 

Year: 2012 

202 Think Tank XII Enhancing Social Capital through Networking for Sustai... file 4480 Nov 06, 2013

Social capital has been recognised as a factor affecting sustainable development in every discipline. A network or a partnership is identified as a “structural” form of social capital and a tool to empower participants in the networks. There...

Author: Attama Nilnoppkun 

Year: 2012 

201 Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo... file 11135 Nov 06, 2013

“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...

Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov 

Year: 2012 

200 Think Tank XII Barriers and Benefits to Professional Development: Per... file 34326 Nov 06, 2013

This paper builds upon the body of literature on tourism mobilities by considering supply-side perspectives as it relates to workforce planning and preparation. Research into tourism destination competitiveness has suggested that for a touri...

Author: Kevin Lyons, Joanne Hanley & Tamara Young 

Year: 2012 

199 Think Tank XII Mobile Learning for Sustainable Tourism Development: T... file 4084 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines how mobility in higher tourism education may contribute to a dynamic leaning environment capable of integrating transnational and intercultural learning for sustainable tourism development. Central to this is the opening ...

Author: Janne J. Liburd 

Year: 2012 

198 Think Tank XII Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract... file 6408 Nov 06, 2013

This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through...

Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters 

Year: 2012 

197 Think Tank XII The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu... file 3982 Nov 06, 2013

The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...

Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson 

Year: 2012 

196 Think Tank XII Social and Economic Mobility: Expatriate Practises in ... file 4756 Nov 06, 2013

Bali has long been a tourist destination for Australian tourists and the Australian tourist market is an important one for Bali tourism. In the last two decades, increasingly Australian tourists have and are shifting their mobility practices...

Author: Gayle Jennings 

Year: 2012 

195 Think Tank XII Identifying Issues with Tourist Wayfinding: A Collabor... file 3669 Nov 06, 2013

This paper reports on a study that was conducted in conjunction with Destination NSW, the government tourism authority for the state of New South Wales in Australia. The purpose of the study was to examine tourist wayfinding behaviour in Syd...

Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2012 

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