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Tourism, health and the changing role of thermal springs - should South Africa reposition its thermal spring tourism product? [PDF]
, 2014 Visiting thermal springs for medicinal purposes is one of the oldest forms of tourism in many parts of the world, including South Africa. An overview is provided of the concepts of health tourism, including medical and wellness tourism, as well as spa ...
Boekstein, Mark
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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A history of vision and plans for the transformation of a coastal tourism city into a knowledge city: Australia's Gold Coast [PDF]
, 2016 Many coastal mass tourism centres have attempted to reinvent themselves as they have grown from informal coastal towns into large cities. Lifestyle migration boosts urban growth as these cities become home to ‘permanent tourists’ attracted by the ...
O'Hare, Daniel
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
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Workplace Health & Wellbeing: Considering the Tourism Workforce [PDF]
, 2014 Against a background of increasing tourism employment, this paper explores the health of the tourism workforce. The rationale for this exploration stems from the current international debate regarding work place health and wellbeing (EU 2012).
Hartwell, Heather +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recruiting and retaining school leaders is a challenge in many systems worldwide. Previous research has identified three distinct ways in which succession planning can be conceptualised and approached: a ‘pipeline’ approach seeks to match supply and demand for the posts that need filling; a ‘pool’ strategy involves proactively identifying and ...
Toby Greany +3 more
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Direct pollution cost assessment of cruising tourism in the Croatian Adriatic [PDF]
Cruise tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry and one that has significant environmental, economic and social impacts on target destinations.
Hrvoje Caric
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract International student mobility (ISM) has historically followed a pattern of movement from developing regions to developed countries. However, in recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Chinese students pursuing doctoral studies in Southeast Asian developing countries, an area that has received relatively little ...
Yueyang Zheng +2 more
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Uncovering Developing Countries’ Performance in Trade in Services [PDF]
Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because technological improvements have reduced the cost of cross-border exchange from infinity to virtually zero, thereby allowing for new export ...
Grover, Arti, Saez, Sebastian
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Conceptualization and classification of balneo, SPA and wellness establichments in Bulgaria [PDF]
, 2010 This paper analyzes the origin, the process of development and consolidation of the health, SPA and wellness tourism in different regions of the world as well as in Bulgaria.
Georgiev, Georgi +1 more
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