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0000-0002-8345-9700
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University of Technology Sydney
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Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 13-02-2017
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-10-2015-0607
Abstract: The aim of this study is to understand the knowledge-sharing structure and co-production of trip-related knowledge through online travel forums. The travel forum threads were collected from TripAdvisor’s Sydney travel forum for the period from 2010 to 2014, which contains 115,847 threads from 8,346 conversations. The data analytical technique was based on a novel methodological approach – visual analytics, including semantic pattern generation and network analysis. Findings indicate that the knowledge structure is created by community residents who camouflage as local experts and serve as ambassadors of a destination. The knowledge structure presents collective intelligence co-produced by community residents and tourists. Further findings reveal how these community residents associate with each other and form a knowledge repertoire with information covering various travel domain areas. The study offers valuable insights to help destination-management organizations and tour operators identify existing and emerging tourism issues to achieve a competitive destination advantage. This study highlights the process of social media mediated travel knowledge co-production. It also discovers how community residents engage in reaching out to tourists by camouflaging as ordinary users.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-03-2018
Abstract: This article provides an objective, systematic, and integrated review of the Western academic literature on adventure tourism to discover the theoretical foundations and key themes underlying the field by combining three complementary approaches of bibliometric analysis, content analysis, and a quantitative systematic review. A total of 114 publications on adventure tourism were identified that revealed three broad areas of foci with adventure tourism research: (1) adventure tourism experience, (2) destination planning and development, and (3) adventure tourism operators. Adventure tourism has an intellectual tradition from multiple disciplines, such as the social psychology of sport and recreation. There is an underrepresentation of studies examining non-Western tourists in their own geographic contexts or non-Western tourists in Western geographic contexts. Our findings pave ways for developing a more robust framework and holistic understanding of the adventure tourism field.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 09-12-2014
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-08-2013
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 09-12-2014
DOI: 10.3727/152599514X14143427352076
Abstract: Music events are elements of entertainment that are important to people's social lives. Large indoor entertainment venues meet this need through the provision of entertainment such as live music performances. While large indoor entertainment venues impact the economies of the communities in which they are located, there is minimal research that investigates their economic contribution. To address this gap, this article examines the inscope expenditure arising from a range of events held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre (SEC) for the areas surrounding it—Chinatown/Haymarket precinct, the Darling Harbour precinct, and the City of Sydney local government area. It was found that the SEC benefits the immediate venue location, as well as adjacent business precincts, with backward and forward economic linkages evident in visitor expenditure patterns. Surprisingly, free concerts were also found to generate high expenditures in surrounding areas. Implications for stakeholders are discussed.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-01-2013
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.1931
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3916
Abstract: One of the key factors shaping the future of tourism is climate change (Becken & Hay, 2007 Dwyer et al., 2009 Nordin, 2005). Burns and Bibbings (2009) even predict “the end of tourism” should current consumption patterns prevail. There is an alternative to this future, but to develop “new imaginations for the sustainable development” of tourism we must understand the wicked problem of tourists’ environmental behavior. Tourists’ environmental behavior impacts on sustainable development to varying degrees (Becken et al, 2003 Metz et al., 2007) depending on whether they behave responsibly or irresponsibly. People consider holidays as a break from everyday life (Becken, 2004 Dolnicar & Grün, 2009) which suggests that people may behave differently when they are tour- ists. For this reason, this chapter explores tourists’ uptake of environmental behaviors by examining their propensity to responsible environmental behavior while travelling. A better understanding of tourists’ environmental behavior can lead to strategies that support collaborative actions “towards facilitating tourism development that is inherently sustainable” (Jennings, 2018). Environmental behavior is a very complex field of research (Hergesell, 2017). Such behavior is determined by a range of internal and external factors with the significance of these factors differing dependent on the person, the context and the type of behavior under study. The question is hence how to reduce ‘irresponsible’ behavior.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 09-12-2014
DOI: 10.3727/152599514X14143427352238
Abstract: One of the major challenges of operating events and venues is that of managing attendee atron alcohol and drug use. In the Australian context, a rising number of alcohol and drug-related incidents in and around these settings have resulted in a renewed focus on how these negative outcomes can be more effectively controlled. In order to aid those charged with the task of addressing this matter—event and venue managers, police, security firms, alcohol and drug regulatory bodies, and governments at all levels—this article seeks to identify those variables with the potential to impact this management issue. Further, it aims to provide the previously identified stakeholders with a deeper appreciation of the raft of practices that are currently in use, and potentially available to them, as they build responses to this challenge at the in idual state, precinct, venue, or event level. The research approach used involved an extensive literature review and a series of in-depth interviews with key stakeholders across three states—New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-10-2009
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.690
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-08-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-02-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1057/THR.2008.6
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-03-2013
Publisher: CABI
Date: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1057/THR.2008.3
Abstract: These three case studies explore the key drivers, processes, barriers and networks associated with innovation for sustainable tourism. The case studies were presented by representatives of the three very distinct organisations, yet reveal common issues when describing their approach to innovation. The common denominator that runs through both small and large organisations is the need for collaboration networks that support, communicate and disseminate the benefits of innovation.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-08-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2000
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-08-2008
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.3727/154427207783948874
Abstract: Out of a growing concern about the erosion of social infrastructure has come an increase in pressure on business to take up more of the responsibility to invest in building strong communities. While many tourism organizations have been slow to involve themselves in any long-term and meaningful way with communities, the volunteer programs of large Australian museums unintentionally create partnerships of engagement, participation, and involvement between the museum and their urban communities. These volunteer programs represent a contribution to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Drawing on the author's previous work, the CSR literature, and museum reports and information posted on the Internet, this article discusses why and how this occurs. First, the article explores the relationship between CSR and social capital. Second, the contribution that museums make to social capital through their volunteer programs is outlined. Third, it is considered whether museums could do more in terms of their CSR and volunteer programs. Finally, suggestions are made for the way in which museums can continue to fulfill and advance their CSR activities. Museums, in acknowledging and documenting the CSR activities of their volunteer programs, can improve CSR outcomes and enhance the social and economic outcomes for both the community and the museum.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 28-08-2013
DOI: 10.3727/152599513X13708863378079
Abstract: Government and industry are aware that the full value of the business event sector needs to be established. To date, the sector has been evaluated on the economic contribution it makes to host destination tourism. The tourism contributions have been impressive in themselves however, this narrow focus has failed to account for a more extensive set of contributions to economies and communities. Impacts from business events in areas such as innovation, education, networking, trade, research, and practice are generally considered to outweigh the financial returns of the tourism spend. Although anecdotal evidence of the value of business events beyond the tourism dimension has been evident for some time, empirical research in this area is limited. This article has four objectives: first, to highlight the research need for understanding the broader impacts of business events beyond the tourism spend second, to identify the range and impact of contributions made by business events to host communities beyond the tourism spend third, to examine five Australian business events utilizing a grounded theory approach and present a range of identified legacies in the categories of knowledge expansion networking, relationships, and collaboration educational outcomes raising awareness and profiling and showcasing and destination reputation. Finally, the article discusses the implications of these findings for the business events sector.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Publisher: CABI
Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-09-2019
Abstract: Architecture has been recognized for its supporting role in the enhancement of the physical assets of destinations, which play a leading role in drawing tourists who identify and associate destinations with these architectural landmarks. While generating tourist expenditure is not the aim of most architects, many are increasingly aware that articulated and functional buildings become visitor attractions in their own right – an externality that requires valuing. However, the value assigned to iconic architecture is often restricted to the bricks and mortar construction, and the broader contributions a building can deliver to its stakeholders are largely ignored. This article explores the capacity for architecture to attract tourists and effect direct tourism spend through the examination of five cases, each of which has attempted to estimate their economic value to tourism. This article proposes a model for estimating the future value of iconic buildings and tests its application to the University of Technology Sydney, Gehry-designed, Dr Chau Chak Wing building. The implications of the framework and future research are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-01-2022
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 24-06-2015
DOI: 10.3727/152599515X14297053839692
Abstract: Investment in mega-sport events is frequently justified on the basis that there are infrastructure and social legacies that remain after the event. This research explores the claims of a social legacy through a pre- and post-Games survey of volunteers at the Sydney world Masters Games 2009 (SwMG). Through online surveys the research explores pre-and post-volunteer motivations, postevent volunteering intentions before the Games and actual volunteer behavior after the Games. The pre-Games survey supports previous research that a desire to be involved in the event motivates people to volunteer. however, the postevent expression of motivations shifted to a more altruistic focus. The postevent volunteering intentions as indicated in the preevent survey would support the claim of a social legacy however, this was not supported by the postevent measures of volunteering levels. The use of a pre- and postevent survey has highlighted that the timing of measures of motivations can influence responses and one may not depend on preevent intentions as an indicator of postevent behaviors.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.1123/JSM.26.5.379
Abstract: Building on the evidence of social impacts generated by sport events, there is a need for research to identify strategies suitable for maximizing event benefits for disparate interest communities. This paper investigates the opportunities and strategic means for sustaining and leveraging social event benefits arising from intercommunity sport events in the ethnically ided Sri Lanka. Following an interpretive mode of inquiry, findings are derived from the analysis of two focus groups and 35 in-depth interviews with Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim and international event stakeholders. To maximize event benefits, findings suggest that event organizers and host communities focus strategically on children as catalysts for change increase ethnically mixed team sport activities provide event-related sociocultural opportunities combine large-scale events with regular sport-for-development programs and engage in social, cultural, political and educational event leverage. By implementing these strategies and tactics, intercommunity sport events are likely to contribute to local capacity building and inclusive social change, which can have flow-on effects to the wider community. These findings extend the academic literature on strategic event planning, management and leverage, as they provide a focus on community event leverage for social purposes in a developing world context—an area which has thus far received limited empirical research.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2020
Abstract: The combination of measurements of the W boson polarization in top quark decays performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations is presented. The measurements are based on proton-proton collision data produced at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 20 fb − 1 for each experiment. The measurements used events containing one lepton and having different jet multiplicities in the final state. The results are quoted as fractions of W bosons with longitudinal ( F 0 ), left-handed ( F L ), or right-handed ( F R ) polarizations. The resulting combined measurements of the polarization fractions are F 0 = 0 . 693 ± 0 . 014 and F L = 0 . 315 ± 0 . 011. The fraction F R is calculated from the unitarity constraint to be F R = − 0 . 008 ± 0 . 007. These results are in agreement with the standard model predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics and represent an improvement in precision of 25 (29)% for F 0 ( F L ) with respect to the most precise single measurement. A limit on anomalous right-handed vector ( V R ), and left- and right-handed tensor ( g L , g R ) tWb couplings is set while fixing all others to their standard model values. The allowed regions are [ − 0 . 11 , 0 . 16] for V R , [ − 0 . 08 , 0 . 05] for g L , and [ − 0 . 04 , 0 . 02] for g R , at 95% confidence level. Limits on the corresponding Wilson coefficients are also derived.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-08-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-08-2008
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 23-06-2022
DOI: 10.3727/152599522X16419948390835
Abstract: Although the literature identifies various benefits of business events, more work is required to investigate the ways in which such outcomes are achieved and how they fit into a whole of industry ecosystem. In this study, we apply the concept of sustainable business models to explore elements and mechanisms of how values combining economic, social, and environmental stakeholder benefits are proposed, created, delivered, and captured through conferences. To study these nuances, we analyze the case of the Australian cotton industry conferences. Our findings suggest that mechanisms of building industry community, forming a social platform, and managing sustainability solutions were core conference elements that led to desired industry changes. The study contributes to business events literature by delineating a means of achieving industry outcomes as a result of organizing industry conferences. The article proposes a business model specifically reflective of the Australian cotton industry conferences.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-08-2010
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2042291
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2008
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 06-05-2020
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-26460/V1
Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global economic recession but little is known about its impact on the informal economy including peer-to-peer rental market. Against this backdrop, this study assessed the financial loss of Airbnb listings and its hosts in Sydney from January to March 2020. Findings show that the pandemic resulted in 70% income loss for Airbnb hosts with hosts suffering eight times higher than the Airbnb platform itself. However, like other gig workers and freelancers, many Airbnb hosts are not qualified to claim the financial aids from the government in Australia. Our study shows the vulnerability of the sharing economy during a time of crisis. It contributes empirical evidence to the widening public debate on the sustainability and the sharing economy but most importantly, raises concerns over the sharing economy’s contribution to a resilient society and economy.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2009
DOI: 10.1057/THR.2009.7
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2021
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1905286
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3879
Abstract: Explores the role of collaboration in tourism to sustain livelihoods, create profitable partnerships, and protect cultures and the environment.
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-03-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 19-02-2014
DOI: 10.3727/152599514X13883555341887
Abstract: Business events are celebrated for their contributions to community and industry. They are understood to be shared social contexts in which people meet to advance knowledge, sell products, and network. Less celebrated and, arguably, less understood is that business events provide a context for the development of friendships. In 2011 an online survey was conducted with the delegates of five international business events held in Sydney, Australia in the period 2009–2011. The survey was designed to investigate business legacies of the events (such as investment opportunities, research collaborations) rather than sociable legacies. however, a surprising number of references to friendship were made in the “additional comments” sections of the questionnaire. reflecting on this finding, this article argues that friendships forged at business events contribute to, respectively: the well-being of delegates, association membership levels, conference attendance, retention of personnel in the profession, successful research and professional collaborations, and creativity and innovation in the sector. Business event planners can maximize opportunities for sociable outcomes among delegates by designing warm and inviting event spaces that facilitate interaction, and by providing social space for the development of relationships, optimal conditions for sociability, and opportunities for play to stimulate creativity and build community.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-04-2015
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 11-11-2022
DOI: 10.3727/152599522X16419948694748
Abstract: Conference exhibitors are important stakeholders in the business events sector. Yet, industry professionals such as conference organizers, convention bureau, and convention centers have limited understanding of the needs and motivations of exhibitors at conferences. Research on exhibitor motivations in the business events sector has largely focused on exhibitions and trade shows and neglected motivations for exhibiting at conferences. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to address this gap: to determine the motivations of conference exhibitors. The article presents findings from semistructured interviews with 26 exhibitors from four conferences held in Sydney, Australia, representing four industry sectors—medical, engineering, technology, and community services. Surprisingly, sales were not a primary motivation for conference exhibitors. Conference exhibitors are motivated to contribute to their respective industry sectors through sharing knowledge and information, building relationships, and building brand reputation within the industry space.
Publisher: CABI
Date: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-05-2012
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3907
Abstract: More than one century ago, in a revolutionary piece of prose, D. H. Lawrence wrote: “And barrenly, the professors in their gowns offered commercial commodity that could be turned to good account in the examination room ready-made stuff too, and not really worth the money it was intended to fetch which they all knew” ([1914] 1995: 367). One of the most important challenges facing the world today is educating the leaders of today and tomorrow. In order to avoid blind reproduction, as implied in the opening quote by D.H. Lawrence, and to create challenging vistas, these leaders should be equipped with a holistic understanding of the concepts, values and principles of collaboration and sustainable tourism development. The reader is hereby challenged not only to think about the means to current problem solving but to reflect philosophically upon processes and ethics in the context of desirable futures with others. Reflecting upon the kind of tourism we wish to have does not imply moving away from one’s own, or industry’s, needs and demands of the market place, nor of meeting those of society. More funda- mentally it raises the issues of stewardship, the kind of tourism to be developed, by whom, how it should be governed, and what the objectives behind these activities should be.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: IATED
Date: 07-2016
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 2004
Location: Cuba
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