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Feb

E-Commerce in Tourism: Use of Websites by Small Regional and Urban Enterprises

Categories: Case Study, Oceania, Pacific, Private Sector, Public Sector

Tags: Bendigo, ICTs internet, interviews, Melbourne, Model, SMTEs, Sydney

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This scoping study systematically explored the nature and extent to which small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) are currently online, in order to determine how they are to benefit from online technologies. Small businesses in Sydney and Melbourne (urban area) as well as regional Victoria (Bendigo) (rural area) that rely on tourism were examined, and their use of websites, to determine the strategic management and implementation of websites by owners/operators of SMTEs.

by Andrew P. Davidson and Stephen Burgess

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Feb

Reducing Water Consumption in Bathrooms, Kitchens & Laundries (I): An EarthCheck Fact Sheet

Categories: Case Study, Management, Manual, Monitoring & Evaluation, Operations, Planet, Private Sector, Water

Tags: Bangalore, bathrooms, EarthCheck, India, kitchens, Melbourne, Melia Bali, Nusa Dua, reduce water consumption, tourism operators

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This fact sheet focuses on how tourism operators can reduce water consumption in facilities common to many operations such as bathrooms, kitchens and laundries. Also includes case studies of Melia Bali, Nusa Dua, Indonesia; The Alto Hotel, Melbourne, Australia; and The Taj Residency, Bangalore, India.

by EarthCheck

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Feb

Reducing Waste to Landfill: An EarthCheck Fact Sheet

Categories: Case Study, Management, Manual, Monitoring & Evaluation, Planet, Private Sector, Waste

Tags: Australia; El Gouna Movenpick, EarthCheck, Egypt; and Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa, El Gouna, Melbourne, St Lucia, tourism operators, waste products, waste-to-landfill ratio. Alto Hotel, West Indies

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This paper outlines the range of different waste products generated by tourism operators, along with some solutions on how to reduce the waste-to-landfill ratio. Also includes case studies of the Alto Hotel, Melbourne, Australia; El Gouna Movenpick, El Gouna, Egypt; and Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa, St Lucia, West Indies.

by EarthCheck

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Feb

Efficient Air Conditioning: An EarthCheck Fact Sheet

Categories: Case Study, Climate, Energy, Management, Manual, Monitoring & Evaluation, Planet

Tags: air conditioning, Australia, Bangalore, EarthCheck, energy efficiency, energy use, hotels, India, Melbourne, the Alto Hotel, the Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa in St Lucia, the Taj Residency Hotel, tourism sector, West Indies

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The use of air conditioners varies significantly within the tourism sector and depends greatly on climate and, for some sectors such as hotels, air conditioning can contribute up to 50% of their overall energy use. Here. EarthCheck outlines different air conditioning systems and ways to enhance their energy efficiency. Also includes three case studies: The Alto Hotel, Melbourne, Australia; The Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa in St Lucia, West Indies; and The Taj Residency Hotel, Bangalore, India.

by EarthCheck

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Feb

Cultural Landscapes of Tourism in New South Wales and Victoria

Categories: Case Study, Community, Cultural Heritage, Oceania, Report, Residents, Survey, Visitors

Tags: Australia, case, cultural, EarthCheck, landscapes, Melbourne, New, NSW, social, South, studies, sustainable tourism online, Sydney, VIC, Victoria, Wales

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The research project conducted fieldwork in a number of case studies in metropolitan and regional and rural areas of New South Wales and Victoria in order to investigate and explore the intersection between traditional and new cultural landscape precincts and the current and future patterns of Australian tourism. Cultural landscapes of tourism are diverse in character. This project compared the more ‘traditional’ cultural tourist precinct of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales and Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf with the cosmopolitan cultural diversity of ethnic precincts including Sydney’s and Melbourne’s Chinatown and Melbourne’s Little Italy, Lygon Street.

by Jock Collins, Simon Darcy, Kirrily Jordan, Ruth Skilbeck, Simone Grabowski, Vicki Peel, David Dunstan, Gary Lacey, and Tracey Firth

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Feb

Business Ready: Alto Hotel on Bourke, Melbourne

Categories: Case Study, Innovation, Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Oceania, Operations, Pacific, Planning, Private Sector, Return

Tags: air conditioning, Alto Hotel on Bourke, Australian Federal Government, business ready, businesses, carbon pricing scheme, Clean Energy Future Plan, Director, eco-efficiency, energy efficiency, energy savings, fuel efficient, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, lighting, Melbourne, reduce energy costs, reducing emissions, Ricardo Krauskopf, solar panels

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The Alto Hotel on Bourke’s philosophy is to look after the environment by carefully monitoring the impacts of its energy consumption, while identifying ways to be more efficient and resource smart. This Case Study shows how management encourages the participation of all staff in finding innovative solutions.

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Feb

The Alto Hotel on Bourke, Australia

Categories: Certification/Accreditation, Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Oceania, Pacific, Report

Tags: Australia, benchmarking report, case studies, EarthCheck, hotel, Melbourne, Sustainability, Sustainable Tourism, sustainable tourism online, The Alto Hotel on Bourke

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This benchmarking report shines the spotlight on The Alto Hotel on Bourke, the first hotel in Melbourne’s central business district to become fully certified using EarthCheck science.

by EarthCheck

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Jan

How Do Australians Choose Holiday Destinations and Experiences? Modelling Consumer Choice

Categories: Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Oceania, Pacific, People and Places, Report, Residents, Survey, Visitors

Tags: Behaviour, Choice, consumer, Destiantion, EarthCheck, Econometric, Melbourne, modelling, Models, Perth, sustainable tourism online, Sydney

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The aim of this research was to explore and compare choice behaviours of different consumers for specific domestic and overseas destinations offering a particular set of holiday experiences. The selected eight destinations represent the whole range of option types for short trip vacation travel from or within Australia: overseas (Asia/Pacific), domestic metropolitan interstate, regional interstate, local regional (intrastate) and local ‘home’ destination. The implementation and modelling of consumer choice experiments such as this provides a powerful method for deconstructing and understanding how tourism consumers make decisions.

by Harmen Oppewal, Twan Huybers and Geoffrey I. Crouch

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Dec

Moving from Planning to Action: Science, Policy, Accountability, Verification, Efficiency – are they all needed just to be sustainable?

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Tags: Alto On Bourke, EarthCheck, Ecolab, Greenfleet, Melbourne, RMIT, sustainable policy planning and action, sustainable tourism online, University

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A presentation from RMIT on the university’s sustainability practices

by Adjunct Professor Alan Pears AM, RMIT

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Dec

Tourism and Destination Branding Report

Categories: Case Study, Management, Marketing, Monitoring & Evaluation, Oceania, Pacific, Visitors

Tags: Australia, branding, coast, destination, Destination Branding, EarthCheck, Gold, Gold Coast, Herington, marketing, Melbourne, Merrilees, Place, sustainable tourism online, tourism, Wilkins

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The research in this report was an investigation of the criteria pertinent to establishing a destination brand. The research project investigated the role of destination brand and image as a motivator for destination vacation choice. The project made a comparison of two destinations, the Gold Coast and Melbourne, Australia.

by Hugh Wilkins, Bill Merrilees, Carmen Herington

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