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Between World Views: Nascent Pacific Tourism Enterprise in New Zealand

open access: yes, 2009
This thesis considers the dynamics of entrepreneurship at the 'pre-tourism' stage of tourism development. It is written from the point of view of potential tourism hosts, diasporan Pacific peoples resident in New Zealand.
Cave, Jennifer Barbara Jane
core  

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The socio-economic impacts of Singaporean cross-border tourism in Malaysia and Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Cross-border tourism is often proposed by governments as an incentive for economic growth, but critics have suggested that its impacts are, in fact, overplayed. This paper presents research in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle.
Hampton, Mark P.
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Colonial heritage and tourism : Ethnic landscape perspectives

open access: yes, 2015
The revival of colonial heritage is a particular feature of former British and French colonies in Pacific and Asian settings. This is exemplified by the redevelopment and rejuvenation of what were exclusive 'comfort zones' for the 'colonial classes' and ...
Cheer, Joseph   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Ethnic Tourism -- A Helicopter from "Huge Graveyard" to Paradise? [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2000
Since the beginning of the 1980s, ethnic tourism has been one of the key industries promoted by the government of Guizhou province in Southwestern China.
Xiaoping Wu
doaj  

Do Eco‐Emotions and Climate Change Perceptions Influence Environmentally Conscious Decisions? Implications for Business Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing research on explicating travelers' decision‐making processes regarding greener travel options, there remains potential for exploring nuances of different factors and mechanisms that may encourage higher green travel. Grounded in the propositions of the push–pull–mooring framework, our study attempts to explicate whether eco ...
Chuhong Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket –
Hampton, Mark   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Impacts of Policies on Tourism-Oriented Rural Spaces: A Case Study of Minority Villages in Yanbian Prefecture

open access: yesLand
In 2005, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China introduced a strategic plan to advance the construction of a new socialist countryside, thereby providing a policy foundation for the robust development of ...
Yu Zhang, Wenxin Xiong, Li Dong
doaj   +1 more source

Traditional Culture Preservation in Chinese Ethnic Tourism Community

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2015
Tourism economic development and traditional culture preservation has been a topic of concern and discussion in academic fields. Based on the development of the tourism economy in Xijiang Miao Village of China, the paper focuses on the analysis of the ...
Xiao Qiong
doaj   +1 more source

From the Tourismification of a Village to the Displacement of its Population: Expressions of a Hierarchical Relationship Between the Chinese State and the Wa Ethnic Minority

open access: yesVia@, 2020
The tourism development of the Wa village of Wengding, dubbed “the last primitive tribe” in China by public and private stakeholders in its promotion as a tourist site, is based around a complex of facilities and amenities in the village space, and ...
Sarah Coulouma
doaj   +1 more source

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