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Think Tank X
Establishing a Network of European Rural Villages for ...
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5132 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The paper deals with the research activity carried out by the Authors in the context of the European Project “Listen to the Voice of Villages”. The focus is on the governance asset and tools able to enhance sustainable tourism development i...
Author: Mariangela Franch, Umberto Martini, Federica Buffa & Fabio Sacco
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Re-thinking Resort Growth and Governance: An Evolution...
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4042 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Rapid growth in resort areas, combined with environmental and market stresses, has recently created concern amongst resort decision-makers about future paths of development. Growth models have operated effectively in maintaining resort comp...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2010
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Think Tank X
Drowning with Tourism? Stakeholder Perspectives from T...
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11813 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Climate change and its impacts on nations, regions and populations as well as its anthropogenic causes have become one of the prevailing issues of global society and, hence, subject to ongoing debates among e.g. the natural, political and s...
Author: Anna Huebner
Year: 2010
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151 |
Think Tank X
The Role of Face-to-face Communication and Networking ...
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5785 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Despite the advent of improved electronic communications technology, face-to-face communication and networking remain the most effective means of enhancing business performance and innovation, particularly for more complex products. During ...
Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2010
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150 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Destination Management and the Marketing-P...
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6637 | Oct 14, 2013 |
A traditional and widely held view is that a sustainable approach to destination planning and management ideally requires that marketing and product development are undertaken in an integrated manner. However, if we take just two activities...
Author: Tazim Jamal & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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149 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy and Student Community Col...
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17186 | Oct 14, 2013 |
There have been increasing calls to move away from the traditional disciplinary structures and research, teaching and learning approaches that have tended to ‘tunnel’ student learning and reinforce particular worldviews towards new forms of ...
Author: Tazim Jamal, Justin Taillon & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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148 |
Think Tank X
Knowledge Economies, Knowledge Making, Complexity Theo...
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2375 | Oct 14, 2013 |
This paper narrates processes associated with the development of microtourism enterprises as one part of a broader organically determined sustainable development agenda in a north eastern coastal village in Bali. The paper’s narrative is co...
Author: Gayle Jennings
Year: 2010
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147 |
Think Tank X
Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable...
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5888 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields o...
Author: Maeve Morrissey, Kevin Griffin & Sheila Flanagan
Year: 2010
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146 |
Think Tank X
Implementing Destination Governance
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3186 | Oct 14, 2013 |
In the tourism management literature, several authors (Nordin, Beritelli et al, Pechlaner) have promoted the concept of destination governance, to define a coalition of disparate parties with common interests, as a productive approach to to...
Author: Loredana Padurean
Year: 2010
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145 |
Think Tank X
Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop...
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10665 | Oct 14, 2013 |
The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in...
Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter
Year: 2010
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144 |
Think Tank X
New Media for Climate Change Communication and Collabo...
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6929 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The Climate Change Collaboratory1 aims to strengthen the relations between Austrian scientists, policy makers, educators, environmental NGOs, news media and corporations - stakeholders who recognize the need for adaptation and mitigation, b...
Author: Arno Scharl
Year: 2010
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143 |
Think Tank X
Indigenous Values Help Shape a Universal Tourism Ethic
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3597 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Indigenous communities from around the planet are defining common values in their tourism programs that attract visitors seeking authentic, transformational experiences. The Maori of New Zealand, Aborigines of Australia, Maasai of Kenya, Am...
Author: Ben Sherman
Year: 2010
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142 |
Think Tank X
Agenda 21, the Internet and Globalization – Creating a...
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4281 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper discusses the contemporary meeting of three large-scale systems or processes - Agenda 21, the Internet and globalization - and what this historical conjunction means for networking sustainable tourism development. It is important...
Author: Gordon Sillence & Herbert Hamele
Year: 2010
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141 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Networks
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8600 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This study examines the existing pattern of stakeholder relationships representing major partners of sustainable tourism development. By utilizing a network analysis lens the study also helps us understand the impact of inter relationships ...
Author: Seldjan Timur
Year: 2010
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140 |
Think Tank X
How Is Sustainability ‘Materialised’ in Tourism? Conte...
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1885 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Meaning is one of the most elusive and ubiquitous properties of tourism spaces. This paper analyses the ambiguity of meaning in the materiality of tourism sustainability. Sustainable development and its three interrelated principles of holi...
Author: Neil M. Walsh
Year: 2010
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139 |
Think Tank X
Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ...
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7785 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci...
Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand
Year: 2010
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138 |
Think Tank IX
What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal...
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7813 | Oct 13, 2013 |
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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137 |
Think Tank IX
The West in the East: Conflict in the Values of Volunt...
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4628 | 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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136 |
Think Tank IX
How to create superior value in sustainable tourism: ...
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7611 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Extensive research and practical implementation concerning the value of natural resources has thus far been conducted when one considers for example wildlife-, eco- and cultural tourism, however many of these values originate from industry ...
Author: Philipp E. Boksberger & Jack Carlsen
Year: 2009
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135 |
Think Tank IX
Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera...
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8684 | 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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