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Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis

This paper is about the position of workforce and employment considerations within the sustainable tourism narrative. The paper aims to address the relative neglect of this area within the discourse of sustainable tourism and highlights references to the workforce within the United Nations’ 2030 Age...

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Main Authors: Baum, Tom, Cheung, Catherine, Kong, Haiyan, Kralj, Anna, Mooney, Shelagh, Thanh, Hải Nguyễn Thị, Ramachandran, Sridar, Ružić, Marinela Dropulić, Siow, May Ling
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Published: M D P I AG 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53943/1/Sustainability%20and%20the%20tourism%20and%20hospitality%20workforce.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.539432018-02-22T03:13:17Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53943/ Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis Baum, Tom Cheung, Catherine Kong, Haiyan Kralj, Anna Mooney, Shelagh Thanh, Hải Nguyễn Thị Ramachandran, Sridar Ružić, Marinela Dropulić Siow, May Ling This paper is about the position of workforce and employment considerations within the sustainable tourism narrative. The paper aims to address the relative neglect of this area within the discourse of sustainable tourism and highlights references to the workforce within the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The discussion follows the emerging field of sustainable human resource management and the contribution that this can make to meeting both the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to enhancing the recognition of workforce and employment issues within the related debate in tourism. The body of the paper highlights examples of key dimensions of work and employment across varied tourism contexts, where sustainability is of increasing consequence and significance. The paper concludes by drawing together the implications of these “mini-cases” and locating them within key principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. M D P I AG 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53943/1/Sustainability%20and%20the%20tourism%20and%20hospitality%20workforce.pdf Baum, Tom and Cheung, Catherine and Kong, Haiyan and Kralj, Anna and Mooney, Shelagh and Thanh, Hải Nguyễn Thị and Ramachandran, Sridar and Ružić, Marinela Dropulić and Siow, May Ling (2016) Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis. Sustainability, 8 (809). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2071-1050 http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/8/809 10.3390/su8080809
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description This paper is about the position of workforce and employment considerations within the sustainable tourism narrative. The paper aims to address the relative neglect of this area within the discourse of sustainable tourism and highlights references to the workforce within the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The discussion follows the emerging field of sustainable human resource management and the contribution that this can make to meeting both the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to enhancing the recognition of workforce and employment issues within the related debate in tourism. The body of the paper highlights examples of key dimensions of work and employment across varied tourism contexts, where sustainability is of increasing consequence and significance. The paper concludes by drawing together the implications of these “mini-cases” and locating them within key principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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author Baum, Tom
Cheung, Catherine
Kong, Haiyan
Kralj, Anna
Mooney, Shelagh
Thanh, Hải Nguyễn Thị
Ramachandran, Sridar
Ružić, Marinela Dropulić
Siow, May Ling
spellingShingle Baum, Tom
Cheung, Catherine
Kong, Haiyan
Kralj, Anna
Mooney, Shelagh
Thanh, Hải Nguyễn Thị
Ramachandran, Sridar
Ružić, Marinela Dropulić
Siow, May Ling
Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
author_facet Baum, Tom
Cheung, Catherine
Kong, Haiyan
Kralj, Anna
Mooney, Shelagh
Thanh, Hải Nguyễn Thị
Ramachandran, Sridar
Ružić, Marinela Dropulić
Siow, May Ling
author_sort Baum, Tom
title Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
title_short Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
title_full Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
title_fullStr Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
title_sort sustainability and the tourism and hospitality workforce: a thematic analysis
publisher M D P I AG
publishDate 2016
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53943/1/Sustainability%20and%20the%20tourism%20and%20hospitality%20workforce.pdf
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