Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes: Volume 6 Issue 1

Successful implementation of responsible business practice

Maureen Brookes, Levent Altinay, Kate Ringham

– The main aim of this paper is to introduce the articles of this issue.

Responsible tourism in Cyprus: the rhetoric and the reality

Anna Farmaki, Panayiotis Constanti, Irene Yiasemi, Phidias Karis

This paper aims to provide an overview of the approaches that industry stakeholders follow towards responsible tourism in Cyprus and to address the challenges that responsible…

A study of consumer preferences regarding agritourism in Kazakhstan: A comparative study between urban and rural area consumers

Ainur Seitbattalovna Kenebayeva

– This paper aims to investigate Kazakh rural and urban consumers' preferences for different agritourism experiences.

Voluntourism product development and wildlife conservation for Thailand

Lavanchawee Sujarittanonta

The aim of this paper is to explore how an international business model was successfully developed to protect the environment, specifically, how the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation…

A survey of social entrepreneurial community-based hospitality and tourism initiatives in developing economies: A new business approach for industry

Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, Claudia Simons-Kaufmann

The aim of this paper is to report on preliminary research conducted in seven sustainable hospitality and tourism operations set in developing economies which use the principles…

Hospitality education: sustainable empowerment opportunities for Nigerian women

Belinda Nwosu

The aim of this paper is to explore sustainable tourism initiatives, particularly by identifying the extent to which hospitality education has empowered Nigerian female graduates…

Successful implementation of responsible business practice

Maureen Brookes, Levent Altinay, Kate Ringham

– The main aim of this paper is to critically review the contribution made by this theme issue to the literature by examining the implementation of responsible business practice.

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