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Category : Best Practices

  • Jason deCaires Taylor: An Underwater Art Museum, Teeming with Life

    Adventure Best Practices Climate Change Conservation Environment Sustainability
    27. February 2016

    For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse — it’s an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the

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  • Fund Housing or Infrastructure?

    Adventure Best Practices Disaster Management Rebuilding
    26. February 2016

    The question whether rebuilding funds should rather be spent on housing or infrastructure has long been debated among researchers. Most researchers agree that funding infrastructure that enables community interaction is more important for the

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  • Building Back Better

    Adventure Australia Best Practices Disaster Recovery Rebuilding SIDS
    24. February 2016

    “‘Building back better‘ refers to rebuild in order to attain a state that is said to be less vulnerable than before” (Kennedy et al., 2008, cited in Le De, 2011, p.30). After the tsunami of 2004, former US president Bill Clinton (2006) proposed

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  • Resettlements

    Asia Best Practices Climate Change Culture Disaster Recovery Empowerment Rebuilding Science SIDS
    23. February 2016

    According to Le De (2011, p.121), relocating communities after a disaster can have more negative effects for the population than benefits and may actually increase their vulnerability: “Recent examples such as the Indian Ocean tsunami affecting

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  • The Role of Tourism in Disaster Management

    Asia Best Practices Disaster Management Disaster Preparedness Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Disaster Response
    22. February 2016

    Tourism stakeholders can contribute to disaster management in different ways, depending on the stage of the life cycle. A study conducted by Muskat et al. (2015), which examined the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011,

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  • Volunteering in Disaster Areas

    Best Practices Disaster Management Disaster Preparedness Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Disaster Response North America Science Volunteering
    21. February 2016

    Volunteer tourism as such is not new, neither is the combination of adventure tourism and volunteer purposes. New is, however, the extent to which adventure tour operators and adventure tourists alike engage in the recovery efforts and

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  • Planeterra – IDB

    Adventure Best Practices Empowerment South America Sustainability Video
    20. February 2016

    Since 2012, G Adventures and Planeterra have partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Multilateral Investment Fund to help create lasting positive social change throughout Central and South America and to make the world a

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  • Adventure Operators Engaging in Disaster Recovery Efforts

    Adventure Asia Best Practices Culture Disaster Recovery Disaster Relief Empowerment Rebuilding South America Volunteering
    19. February 2016

    G Adventures and the Evolution of Adventure Tourism In 1990, Bruce Poon Tip founded G Adventures “to bridge the gap between mainstream tourism and the backpacker” (Poon Tip, 2013, p.47). They’ve since received many awards for their innovative

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  • Adventures With a Purpose

    Adventure Africa Asia Australia Best Practices Empowerment Science South America Volunteering World
    17. February 2016

    In the 2014 UNWTO Global Report on Adventure Tourism, ATTA president Shannon Stowell identifies the top four trends in adventure tourism: The softening of adventure travel, customization of trip experiences, multi-generational groups, and

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  • The Dark Side of Adventure Tourism

    Adventure Asia Australia Best Practices Culture Empowerment SIDS Video
    15. February 2016

    Despite the many potential benefits of adventure tourism, it does not always succeed to improve the livelihoods of the local communities. Marx (2011) criticizes “In many cases CBT projects have failed to deliver financial viability due to lack

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  • Teaching Elephants to Avoid Poachers
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  • Broken Tsunami Warning System Exposed
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  • Indigenous Leader Murdered
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    Honduras: Indigenous Leader Murdered Despite Police Protection Berta Caceres, the coordinator

  • Jason deCaires Taylor: An Underwater Art Museum, Teeming with Life
    Adventure Best Practices Climate Change Conservation Environment Sustainability 27. February 2016

    For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse — it’s an exhibition

  • Social License to Operate
    Culture Science 27. February 2016

    “Adventure tourism often occurs in difficult to reach places and often affects vulnerable

  • Fund Housing or Infrastructure?
    Adventure Best Practices Disaster Management Rebuilding 26. February 2016

    The question whether rebuilding funds should rather be spent on housing or infrastructure has

  • Earthships
    Asia Australia Disaster Relief Empowerment Rebuilding SIDS Video Volunteering 25. February 2016

    When a tsunami hit India in 2005, many people lost their homes, but the government was slow in

  • Building Back Better
    Adventure Australia Best Practices Disaster Recovery Rebuilding SIDS 24. February 2016

    “‘Building back better‘ refers to rebuild in order to attain a state that is said to be less

  • Resettlements
    Asia Best Practices Climate Change Culture Disaster Recovery Empowerment Rebuilding Science SIDS 23. February 2016

    According to Le De (2011, p.121), relocating communities after a disaster can have more

  • Disaster Terminology
    Disaster Management Science 1. February 2016

    DEFINITIONS: CRISIS VS. DISASTER VS. HAZARD Many authors have tried to understand crises and

  • Vulnerability Factors
    Disaster Management Science 2. February 2016

    Factors Which Could Augment Vulnerability according to McEntire, 2001; modified by Ritchie,

  • Disaster Management Life Cycles
    Asia Disaster Management Science 3. February 2016

    Ritchie (2009, p.44-45) states that “in both crisis and disaster definitions there is a belief

  • Post-Disaster Challenges and Chances
    Disaster Management Disaster Recovery Sustainability 4. February 2016

    In the immediate wake of a natural disaster, the traumatized population faces a variety of

  • The Psychological Dimensions of Adventure Tourism
    Adventure Science 5. February 2016

    According to Swarbrooke (2003, p.14-16), adventure is “where participants are voluntarily

  • The Adventure Tourist
    Adventure Science 6. February 2016

    In their Global Report on Adventure Tourism (2014) the United Nations World Tourism

  • The Rickshaw Run
    Adventure Asia Uncategorized Video 7. February 2016

    The ingredients for an adventure according to The Adventurists: A developing country, a start

  • Leakage
    Adventure Science 8. February 2016

    Tourism comes with many hidden costs that can have negative economic effects on the host

  • Sustainability and Economic Growth
    Adventure Empowerment Sustainability 9. February 2016

    Adventure tourism encourages sustainable practices. According to ATTA (2013), “adventure

    Bruce Poon Tip: Beyond the Triple Bottom Line
    Adventure Best Practices Empowerment Video 10. February 2016

    Bruce Poon Tip, the founder of G Adventures, explains his business model.

  • Empowering Women Through Adventure Tourism
    Adventure Africa Asia Australia Empowerment South America World 14. February 2016

    Scheyvens (2002, p.138) analyzed tourism from a gender perspective: “The key theme running

  • The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework
    Adventure Asia Australia Empowerment Science Sustainability 12. February 2016

    Wang and Cater (2015, p.209) examined “the potential for tourism development to contribute to

  • Post-Disaster Challenges and Chances
    Disaster Management Disaster Recovery Sustainability 4. February 2016

    In the immediate wake of a natural disaster, the traumatized population faces a variety of

  • Planeterra – IDB
    Adventure Best Practices Empowerment South America Sustainability Video 20. February 2016

    Since 2012, G Adventures and Planeterra have partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank

  • Adventures With a Purpose
    Adventure Africa Asia Australia Best Practices Empowerment Science South America Volunteering World 17. February 2016

    In the 2014 UNWTO Global Report on Adventure Tourism, ATTA president Shannon Stowell identifies

  • Adventure Operators Engaging in Disaster Recovery Efforts
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  • A Shark’s Tail
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    Marco D. Biemann and his British friend and underwater camera man Tony Exall produced a short

  • The Empowerment Framework
    Empowerment Science 13. February 2016

    Scheyvens (2002, p.59) proposes an empowerment framework to analyze “the actual or potential

    Bruce Poon Tip: Beyond the Triple Bottom Line
    Adventure Best Practices Empowerment Video 10. February 2016

    Bruce Poon Tip, the founder of G Adventures, explains his business model.

  • Fund Housing or Infrastructure?
    Adventure Best Practices Disaster Management Rebuilding 26. February 2016

    The question whether rebuilding funds should rather be spent on housing or infrastructure has

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