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No.	Subject	Views	Date
65	Think Tank VIII Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote...	6386	Oct 13, 2013
65	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
64	Think Tank VIII Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit...	9167	Oct 13, 2013
64	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
63	Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M...	7945	Oct 13, 2013
63	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
62	Think Tank VIII Destination Competitiveness and Policy Making for Pove...	6850	Oct 13, 2013
62	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
61	Think Tank VIII Linking Tourist Satisfaction to Happiness and Quality ...	4896	Oct 13, 2013
61	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
60	Think Tank VIII Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...	70627	Oct 13, 2013
60	This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag... Author: David Foster Year: 2008
59	Think Tank VIII Tourism-led Amenity Migration and the Transformation o...	3363	Oct 13, 2013
59	Global economic and political change has stimulated an explosion in tourism-led migration flows resulting in unprecedented transformation in the form and condition of impacted communities (Woods, 2006). This increase in human migration to ar... Author: Alison M. Gill Year: 2008
58	Think Tank VIII A Tool for Improving the Sustainability of Tourism Ind...	2824	Oct 13, 2013
58	The tourism industry’s interest in sustainable management has increased in exponential proportions over the past year. Substantial amounts of space in industry journals are devoted to issues such as sustainability, energy management, green b... Author: Claudia Jurowski Year: 2008
57	Think Tank VIII Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events:...	103895	Oct 13, 2013
57	The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a range of performances. The Wadden Sea Fest... Author: Janne J. Liburd & Anja Hergesell Year: 2008
56	Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio...	3197	Oct 13, 2013
56	Almost all the academic literature on tourism impacts has focussed on the consequences of tourism for the destination and its residents. Very little attention has been paid to the impacts of tourism on tourists. Virtually all cost-benefit an... Author: Gianna Moscardo Year: 2008
55	Think Tank VIII A Conceptual Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study...	9960	Oct 13, 2013
55	The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the last years, which led to an increasing amount of research that has analysed both the economic and social impacts of sport events. Whereas a substantial amount of ex post assessment fr... Author: Nico Schulenkorf Year: 2008 OPA: 2008 Runner Up
54	Think Tank VIII Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ...	4824	Oct 13, 2013
54	The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s... Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle Year: 2008
53	Think Tank VIII Tourism for Marginal Groups: Tourism as a Livelihood S...	2298	Oct 13, 2013
53	Since the report of the Brundtland Commission was published 1987 (WCED 1987), sustainable development has been incorporated into the policies of many international organizations and the legislation of jurisdictions throughout the world. Nev... Author: Teresa C.H. Tao & Geoffrey Wall Year: 2008
52	Think Tank VIII Will the Advent of a More Responsible Type of Tourism ...	2954	Oct 13, 2013
52	‘Responsible’ tourism is all the rage nowadays. Parallel to the offer commercialized by specialized tour operators on the sustainable niche, traditional tour-operators have also begun to claim the sustainability of their offer. One can henc... Author: Maud Tixier Year: 2008
51	Think Tank VIII An Assessment of Efforts to Enhance the Quality of Lif...	3787	Oct 13, 2013
51	Quality of life studies are usually either objective or subjective in nature. Objective quality of life studies concentrate on social indicators whereas subjective quality of life studies attempt to assess the perceived satisfaction that in... Author: Turgut Var, Erhan Ada, Gökce Ozdemir & Deniz Hasirci Year: 2008
50	Think Tank VII Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability...	4842	Oct 13, 2013
50	With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T... Author: Daniel Fesenmaier Year: 2007
49	Think Tank VII Tourist Perceptions of Environmentally Friendly Innova...	24587	Oct 13, 2013
49	As the environmental movement got underway and environmental awareness came into focus in the late 20th century, the tourism industry began incorporating 'environmentally friendly' efforts into their business practices. Requests for towel r... Author: Kathleen L. Andereck Year: 2007
48	Think Tank VII Environmentally Sustainable Practices of Victorian Tou...	7995	Oct 13, 2013
48	Environmental sustainability has been a growing concern in our society for the past twenty years, and is a primary issue of many leaders of the tourism industry. In spite of the many efforts to encourage and/or enforce environmentally sound ... Author: Sue Beeton, Sue Bergin-Seers & Christine Lee Year: 2007
47	Think Tank VII A Community of Heroes	2893	Oct 13, 2013
47	Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th... Author: Regina Binder Year: 2007
46	Think Tank VII Branding Sustainability: Taking 'The Natural Step' in ...	63850	Oct 13, 2013
46	Translation of the concept of sustainability into practice is fraught with problems. While policy advances in all sectors of the economy have made steps in the right direction the lack of clarity in defining what is meant by 'sustainability... Author: Alison Gill & Peter Williams Year: 2007

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