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Think Tank XIV
Welcoming Chinese Visitors and the Easternization of t...
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2625 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in what commentators have tagged The Asian Century. Assuming demographic and economic conditions persist, the in...
Author: Patricia C. Johnson
Year: 2014
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164 |
Think Tank XIV
The Development of a National Tourism Research Agenda ...
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6556 | Jun 26, 2014 |
A national research agenda identifies the research priorities that need to be addressed to “inform future policy and service delivery” by government and “for use by academics and practitioners to stimulate research, partnerships and collabor...
Author: Leo Jago & Margaret Deery
Year: 2014
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163 |
Think Tank XIV
Hospitality of Sustainable Tourism Encounters: Experie...
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3641 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Global tourism is, at least to some extent, based upon to the vast inequalities between wealthy and impoverished (Cole & Morgan 2010, xv). Neglecting, or actively forgetting, the legacy of colonialism and the modern forms of economic and...
Author: Emily Höckert
Year: 2014
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162 |
Think Tank XIV
Sustainability and the Politics of Place in Resort Des...
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3034 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The nature of a resort will reflect the varying coalitions, partnerships and discourses that emerge from the relative power of actors within the dominant political regime (Gill 2007). In this paper we examine the evolving discourse around th...
Author: Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
Year: 2014
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161 |
OPA award
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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10040 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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160 |
Think Tank XIV
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab...
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7224 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...
Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer
Year: 2014
OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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159 |
Think Tank XIV
Psychological Empowerment as Good Policy for Governanc...
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5271 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential impact psychological empowerment can have on sustainable tourism policy objectives, including improving resident attitudes toward tourism, enhancing destination competitiveness, and maint...
Author: B. Bynum Boley & Nancy Gard McGehee
Year: 2014
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158 |
Think Tank XIV
Exploring Youth Perspectives on Quality of Life and To...
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2723 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The concept of Quality of Life (QoL) is implicit in conceptualisations of tourism, especially those used to develop and guide tourism policy and planning. At the individual level it is assumed that travel offers a number of different ways to...
Author: Anna Blackman, Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann & Laurie Murphy
Year: 2014
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157 |
Think Tank XI
Broad Street Regeneration Initiative: Practical Sustai...
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16481 | Dec 19, 2013 |
Professors of tourism management teach principles of sustainable tourism to students in the classroom. Practitioners teach by implementing sustainable tourism principles in community. The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (Tourism Council) i...
Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter, Caitlin Amos & Myles Ellison
Year: 2011
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156 |
Think Tank VIII
Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism...
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7799 | Dec 19, 2013 |
This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...
Author: Kitsada Tungchawal
Year: 2008
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155 |
Think Tank V
Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese...
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5923 | Dec 14, 2013 |
Many tourism professionals are afraid to speak about terms such as tourism security and tourism safety. There is a common feeling among tourism and travel professionals that these terms will frighten customers and that the less said the bett...
Author: Peter E. Tarlow
Year: 2005
OPA: Keynote Speech
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154 |
Think Tank IV
Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...
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5686 | Dec 01, 2013 |
Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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153 |
OPA award
Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,...
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8042 | Dec 01, 2013 |
Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...
Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac
Year: 2004
OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner
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152 |
Think Tank XIII
Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ...
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4310 | Nov 06, 2013 |
One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...
Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor
Year: 2013
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151 |
Think Tank XIII
Striving for Environmental Sustainability through Soci...
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6040 | Nov 06, 2013 |
The question how native societies cope with the increasing pressure of global values, such as sustainability, westernization and democratic institutions has been asked in the last decades (Smith, 1989; Honey, 1999; Nash, 2001; Honey, 2008). ...
Author: Peter Varga
Year: 2013
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150 |
Think Tank XIII
Regional Collaboration as the Conduit for Sustainable ...
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4892 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Sustaining rural America is one of today's pressing issues. With the decline of family operated farms and the move away from traditional extraction industries, word about the benefits of developing tourism in rural communities and regions is...
Author: Paige P. Schneider, Cynthia S. Deale & Svitlana Iarmolenko
Year: 2013
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149 |
Think Tank XIII
Visitors' and Residents' Perception of Tourism Impact ...
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20043 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism is one of the leading contributors to service industry in Malaysia and is gradually growing. The growth of this industry brings impact towards the environment, specifically the water quality of islands. This study views into the visi...
Author: Murugadas Ramdas & Badaruddin Mohamed
Year: 2013
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148 |
Think Tank XIII
Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Capital in...
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6597 | Nov 06, 2013 |
There is substantial literature on the impacts of tourism on culture, both positive and negative, however, there are relatively few articles that explore the relationship between cultural capital and sustainable tourism. This paper will repo...
Author: Laurie Murphy & Andrea Schurmann
Year: 2013
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147 |
Think Tank XIII
Local Residents' Involvement in Rural Tourism: The Cas...
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4558 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Community involvement is regarded as a significant factor for the development of rural tourism. In Malaysia, cooperatives are used as a catalyst to achieve community development through community involvement. This paper focuses on the involv...
Author: Uma Thevi Munikrishnan, Sushila Devi Rajaratnam, Paolo Mura & Vikneswaran Nair
Year: 2013
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146 |
OPA award
Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ...
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8676 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...
Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee
Year: 2013
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