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Publication date: 22 April 2020

James Higham

The purpose of this paper is to review the past 75 years of sports tourism and explore the potential of the next 75 years.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to review the past 75 years of sports tourism and explore the potential of the next 75 years.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a personal perspective paper that reflects upon the emergence and development of the field of sport tourism, contemporary challenges and future pathways.

Findings

Research must extend to wider manifestations of sport, and sport-related tourism, in response to the growth of participation and pleasure sports and the increasingly important roles of those sports in addressing the growing social and environmental challenges of contemporary life.

Originality/value

This paper offers insights into the future of sports tourism.

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Publication date: 26 July 2023

Sherry Hsueh-Yu Tseng, James Higham and Craig Lee

This study aims to shape the future of academic air travel practices by identifying the challenges between existing air travel-related policies and practicing responsible air…

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Purpose

This study aims to shape the future of academic air travel practices by identifying the challenges between existing air travel-related policies and practicing responsible air travel.

Design/methodology/approach

With increasing concern over global warming, many institutions have implemented sustainability programmes to tackle carbon emissions and create sustainable practices. COVID-19 has resulted in many universities seizing the opportunity to maintain reduced levels of academic air travel emissions. However, the outdated travel-related policies have caused much scope for tension arising from the policy gap between pre-COVID university travel policies and academics' intentions to reduce their air travel emissions. This study interviewed academics at the University of Otago (New Zealand) to elicit detailed narratives of their perceptions of the university’s air travel-related policies, generating co-created and mutually informative insights.

Findings

The present programme of in-depth interviews with academic staff revealed that while most staff accept the need to reduce air travel emissions, they face challenges concerning career advancement, equity and equality issues. Universities will need to evolve their travel-related policies to address these challenges, enabling academics to adopt new practices that do not unreasonably disadvantage themselves, their disciplines or their institutions.

Originality/value

The findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the institutional policy challenges to responsible academic air travel and the need for the current policy gap to be resolved. The authors propose directions for a responsible academic air travel future that will require both top-down and bottom-up approaches involving academics and institutions.

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International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1467-6370

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Publication date: 6 September 2019

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

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Publication date: 1 October 2008

Norbert Wiley

This will be an attempt to construct a pragmatist theory of the self, drawing on the four major classical pragmatists. From John Dewey, I will take the self as actor or agent;…

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This will be an attempt to construct a pragmatist theory of the self, drawing on the four major classical pragmatists. From John Dewey, I will take the self as actor or agent; from George Herbert Mead the social self; from Charles Sanders Peirce the semiotic or significative self; and from William James the emotion of self feeling. The four fit together reasonably well, and the result is a highly egalitarian, democratic and humanistic idea of what it means to be a human being.

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84855-125-1

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Publication date: 6 September 2019

Sam Spector and James E. S. Higham

Conceptualizations of sustainability and the Anthropocene are expressed in static terms, with the Earth’s biosphere viewed as imposing immutable limits. Yet, increased access to…

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Conceptualizations of sustainability and the Anthropocene are expressed in static terms, with the Earth’s biosphere viewed as imposing immutable limits. Yet, increased access to outer space, with tourism as an important facilitator, challenges past limitations. This chapter examines the implications of advances in space tourism for the concepts of sustainability and the Anthropocene. The former is complicated by access to outer space, which may bring about a raft of calamities but also potentially immense resources and even the possibility of ensuring our species’ long-term survival by settling the cosmos. This chapter also analyzes problems incurred by the Anthropocene’s emphasis on terrestrial geology in an era of increasing ability to leave the Earth.

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

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Space Tourism
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78973-495-9

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Publication date: 31 December 2010

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Tourism and the Implications of Climate Change: Issues and Actions
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-620-2

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Publication date: 23 April 2018

Amy Savener

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Journal of Tourism Futures, vol. 4 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2055-5911

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Publication date: 1 July 2000

Dr Kinshuk

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 17 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 13 April 2015

Mark Shelbourn and David G Proverbs

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Structural Survey, vol. 33 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-080X

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