Impacts and responsibilities for sustainable tourism: a tour operator's perspective
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In this article, the authors present a few of the most important arguments that underscore the potential that tour operators' have in promoting sustainable tourism and advocate that they play significant roles in affecting changes in behaviors and attitudes towards more responsible forms of tourism.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2005-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable tourism & Tourism geography.read more
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Environmental practices and firm performance: an empirical analysis in the Spanish hotel industry
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Sustainable-responsible tourism discourse – Towards ‘responsustable’ tourism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore theoretical perspectives from political economics and behavioural economics to offer a well-reasoned integrated sustainability-responsibility model comprising three stages: awareness, agenda and action.
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Responsible tourism management: the missing link between business owners' attitudes and behaviour in the Cape Town tourism industry.
Nicole Frey,Richard George +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the current attitudes and perceptions of tourism business owners in Cape Town towards responsible tourism management (RTM) practices were investigated and a survey data of 244 tourism businesses were used to statistically test what factors are causing the low levels of RTM practices in the Cape Town tourism industry.
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A supply chain management approach for investigating the role of tour operators on sustainable tourism: the case of TUI
TL;DR: In this article, a model for implementing sustainable supply chain management policies in tourism supply chains is proposed and its applicability is shown by analysing the case of TUI and the implications of the model and the case study are discussed.
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Does sustainability enhance tourism destination competitiveness? Evidence from Italian Destinations of Excellence
Marco Cucculelli,Gianluca Goffi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the Ritchie, Crouch (2000) model on destination competitiveness by introducing a set of sustainability indicators and testing their role in explaining the competitiveness of a tourism destination.
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