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societies, recognized an opportunity for

bridging different communities of researchers

with similar interests, and has published at

least 40 relevant, related articles to date. The

Editor-in-Chief was especially encouraging of

this team‘s efforts to examine the

contemporary challenges posed by

sustainability research in tourism.

7/ Tourism business approaches to

sustainability in tourism:

In 2015 there are two conferences that have

the potential to influence the way the tourism

industry does business. Reflecting the lack of

control tourism has over its key drivers,

neither conference is specifically related to

tourism. The first meeting is the United

Nations summit on the Sustainable

Development Goals in New York (United

Nations, 2015). This programme of work

follows from the Millennium Development

Goals and was one of the few positive

outcomes from the Rio +20 conference in

Brazil in 2012. The second conference is the

COP21 climate change conference in Paris,

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