This qualitative study investigates the extent, purposes, and outcomes of environmental communications (hereafter ECs) produced by ski areas on New Zealand’s South Island. Researchers have examined why ski areas participate ...

This thesis examines how people in the coastal environment of the Akaroa area of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand are doing at building adaptive capacity for local approaches to natural resource management. Adaptive capacity ...

This thesis explores how the notion of responsible business practice unfolds in a developing country context, Tanzania. The research provides important insights into how the socio-cultural environment shapes the uptake and ...

The consequences related to the loss of the worlds indigenous languages are not fully understood–the warnings as to the urgency of this issue largely unheeded, due in part to the enormity and challenges of regaining lost ...

In 1983 Arlie Russell Hochschild published a book approaching the management of emotions in flight attendants and bill collectors. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling discussed the relationship between ...

On September 29th 2009, the 8.3 magnitude earthquake off of the southern coast of Samoa in the Pacific Ocean generated massive tsunami waves resulting in severe devastation for many villages and contamination of their ...

This thesis proposes an analytic framework of tourism history and discusses its value for a tourist destination’s analysis. Employing a tourism history perspective, the thesis focuses on Koh Samui case study as a reference. ...

Within the context of China’s environmental changes that closely related with its rapidly expanding economy what can we learn from looking at tourism there from a political ecology perspective? Political ecologists have ...

Youth hostels can look back on more than a hundred years of history and play a significant role in tourist accommodation today. Hostelling International, the youth hostels’ parenting organisation, is the sixth largest ...

This thesis examines host and guest perceptions of the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts of backpacker tourism on local communities. Backpackers frequently hold ‘anti-tourist’ attitudes and conceive ...