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Providing sustainable innovations in the hospitality i...
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1921 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Overtourism. An analysis of contextual factors contrib...
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18743 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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E-Mobility as an Innovation for a Sustainable Destinat...
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2088 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Sustainable tourism certification in the hotel sector ...
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3970 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Travelers Satisfaction with Dimensions of Tourist Tert...
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2487 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
A meta-analysis of the tourism and economic growth nexus
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1978 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Product innovation in route-based tourism: Interactive...
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68933 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Reducing economic leakages from tourism: A value chain...
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2251 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
OPA: 2017 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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366 |
Think Tank XVII
From Sustainability to Resilience: Understanding Diffe...
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6455 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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365 |
Think Tank XVII
Transit Tours for Airport Passengers – Issues and Chal...
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2833 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
A Structural Model Predicting Tourists Behavioural Int...
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1153 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Enclave tourism: a friend or a foe for small island de...
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1396 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Australian Indigenous Tourism: Integration of knowledg...
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1490 | Aug 17, 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
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
A system thinking approach towards promoting sustainab...
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1750 | Aug 17, 2017 |
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
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Residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism in Mauri...
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8007 | Aug 17, 2017 |
This paper examines residents' perception on sustainable tourism in Mauritius. 500 surveys were elaborated and circulated to the respondents. This research examines the connections between the demographic variables gender, age, instruction l...
Author: Bhavish Jugurnath & Roucheet Bissessur & Youvish Ramjattan & Devendra Bissessur
Year: 2017
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Innovation riving structural power changes in peripher...
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11784 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Traditionally, tourism development in small island destinations has been explained through the lens of the Dependency Theory (Bianchi, 2002; Britton, 1982; Brown & Hall, 2000; Buhalis, 1999; Butler, 1993; Hall, 1994; Harrison, 2001; Weav...
Author: Chaya Hurnath
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Finding and Fostering Our Future Tourism Leaders: Unde...
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591 | Aug 17, 2017 |
The hospitality and tourism industry is facing a serious skilled manpower shortage globally, and the best way to meet the manpower needs of the industry is through training and education. The shortage of skilled talent is a global issue in t...
Author: Grace K.S. Ho & Rob Law
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Collaborative knowledge production development and act...
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1728 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Increasingly, literature has depicted food tourism as a powerful contributor to the ‘triple bottom line’ of economic, social, and environmental sustainability in rural communities (e.g. Sidali et al., 2015; Sims, 2009; Everret & Aitchson...
Author: Yukari Higuchi & Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
New Forms of ‘Responsible Tourism’ in Refugee Camps an...
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43438 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Responsible Tourism is about “making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit”. Traveling responsibly is thus about managing travel and destinations in an environmentally and culturally responsible way and de...
Author: Jaume Guia, Sil van de Velde & Lauren Chan
Year: 2017
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Think Tank XVII
Applying water quality as a management tool for the wi...
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15177 | Aug 17, 2017 |
Growing human populations led to expanding agriculture and industrial activities, and during the last decade raised international concern as fresh water quality has deteriorated on a global scale. In addition, climate change threatens to cau...
Author: JJ Grobler and KF Mearns
Year: 2017
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