This study examines how tourism stakeholders on Texel, a Wadden Island in the Netherlands, can support a circular economy (CE) by reusing and recycling to minimize waste. Key barriers include fears of higher costs, lack of policy guidance, and poor collaboration, though opportunities like innovation and an island-focused approach could help. Future research should expand to include inhabitants, tourists, and demand-side perspectives.
This study explores the research question: "How do Spanish and foreign residents in Jávea perceive tourism's impact on their local community differently?" Both groups see economic benefits but share concerns about cultural loss, environmental harm, and lifestyle disruptions. Foreign residents report higher concerns about organized crime and manage rising costs better than locals, who face more economic pressure. The study recommends sustainable tourism practices to protect resident well-being.
This thesis explores systems thinking in fifty tourism higher education programs across the world by establishing several indicators: critical thinking, networks, interdisciplinarity, wicked problems and feedback loops.
This thesis provides insights on the ban on single use plastics and takes the influence and experience of tourists as actors on this policy arrangement into account.
This exploratory research aims to clarify architourism and its different aspects. . It provides an insight into architourism, its relation to city branding and the specific backgrounds and motives of architourists
This research aims to explore the consumer reaction to carbon-reduced holidays. It provides new insights into attitudes of consumers and their booking intentions of carbon-reduced holidays.
This research evaluates the feasibility of applying citizen science at The Living Lodge, Biesbosch national park in the Netherlands.
This research assesses how changes in climate will affect the water supply-demand relationship in the emerging tourism destination Morocco. Recommendations are given how to better adapt to future water scarcity issues.
TUI Benelux Sustainable Tourism Thesis Award 2016! Based on a self-administered online survey of 1035 respondents this research explores the gap between tourists' awareness and action-taking regarding water consumption.
This research project explores how sociotechnical innovations for sustainability occur in the accommodation sector. Using the two distinct cases of Cradle2Cradle Islands and Landal GreenParks, Opportunities and constraints to broader implementation of sustainable technology are discussed. | Author: R. Bleijenberg (2014)
