Lynnaire Sheridan

Importance of tasting rooms for Canary Islands' wineries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the tasting room for wineries from a re‐developing Spanish wine region, and identify the challenges winery owners currently face in their pursuit to market their wines through the tasting room.Design/methodology/approach – Between May and June of 2007 a total of 23 winery owners, managers and wine makers located in the Canary Islands were interviewed from a sample of 61 wineries identified in Tenerife and La Palma islands.Findings – The findings confirm the vital importance of the tasting room as a marketing, branding, and educative vehicle for the wine product. Overall, wineries focus on the tasting room as a way to advertise and present their wines to visitors and passers by as part of a long‐term strategy, rather than as a way to make direct wine sales.Research limitations/implications – It is acknowledged that the sample of only 23 participating businesses may not be enough to make generalisations about the impact of the tasting room on win...

A Critical Reflection on the Role of Stakeholders in Sustainable Tourism Development in Least-Developed Countries

Abstract While investigating the implementation of community-based tourism in least-developed countries (LDCs), the critical role of stakeholders in sustainable tourism development became apparent. External stakeholders, in particular, develop theory models and define policy for translation into the field yet there is little critical consideration of their role and influence. This article encapsulates insights achieved by the researchers at the interface of theory and practice in a challenging LDC setting.

Back translation: an emerging sophisticated cyber strategy to subvert advances in ‘digital age’ plagiarism detection and prevention

Advances have been made in detecting and deterring the student plagiarism that has accompanied the uptake and development of the internet. Many authors from the late 1990s onwards grappled with plagiarism in the digital age, presenting articles that were provoking and established the foundation for strategies to address cyber plagiarism, including software such as TurnitinTM. In the spirit of its predecessors, this article presents a new, less-detectable method of cyber-facilitated plagiarism known as ‘back translation’, where students are running text through language translation software to disguise the original source. This paper discusses how this plagiarism strategy attempts to subvert academic attempts to detect plagiarism and maintain academic integrity in the digital age, before presenting useful detection tools and then critiquing three classroom plagiarism management approaches for their usefulness in the current digital and educational context.

Which direction should Australian health system reform be heading

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 7

The role of resident perceptions in achieving effective community-based tourism for least developed countries

Community-based tourism (CBT) can be a tool for sustainable development in least developed countries; however, careful selection of participating communities is vital to achieving development outcomes. This article presents resident perceptions of self and the community (and its tourism organizers) as potential indicators for future CBT success both contributing to theoretical concepts but pragmatically potentially also assists practitioners to identify communities that theoretically should produce better development outcomes before embarking on projects.

Is physical activity leisure or work? Exploring the leisure-tourism-physical activity relationship with holidaymakers on Rottnest Island, Western Australia

Abstract To help overcome preventable health problems in the developed world, the ‘active living’ concept seeks to stimulate peoples physical activity in everyday environments. This study contributes to the understanding of the leisure‐tourism‐physical activity relationship by investigating the self‐reported physical activity of holidaymakers on Rottnest Island, Western Australia, compared to their home environment. The qualitative analysis of 41 participant interviews on behaviour, motivation, and constraints revealed that physical activity was seen as leisure on Rottnest but work at home. A uniquely attractive and easily accessible environment and positive social interactions were key contributors to participation in physical activity.

Medicinal Cannabis and the Tyranny of Distance: Policy Reform Required for Optimizing Patient and Health System Net Benefit in Australia

In the evolution of any novel concept, there is a spectrum in the rate at which individuals adopt a new idea, a diffusion of innovation stretching from innovators to laggards [1]. Such a distribution is emerging globally in the rapidly evolving field of medicinal cannabis (MC). Countries such as Israel, the Netherlands and,more recently, Canada could be regarded as innovators [2, 3]. They have taken pragmatic health systembased responses to the needs of patients, facilitating access to those with highest expected net clinical benefit while conducting trials and studies in parallel. Even the USA, with its patchwork quilt of innovation and lack of federal oversight, is developing insights into what works for their patient populations, and what doesn’t [4]. In contrast, Australia cannot be regarded as an innovator while obstacles continue to thwart the creation of an efficient, patient-oriented system, despite intentions of Federal legislation passed in February 2016 [5]. Obstacles thrown up are at least evolving, from dated questions such as the validity of using botanical products to treat medical conditions, to allegations that those same products cannot be dosed appropriately. Yet reasons for denying access continue to confound recreational and medicinal cannabis, either deliberately or through ignorance. The suggestion that a medicinal cannabis compassionate access scheme risks being diverted into the hands of recreational consumers should be treated with derision in a country where recreational cannabis is already easily obtainable and medicinal cannabis is grown and produced for therapeutic rather than psychotropic effects. The lack of health system access in general is not a consequence of there being negative research findings, but rather a concerted attempt over most of the last century to prevent and stifle research into therapeutic effects [6]. To further elucidate and optimise the potential of medicinal cannabis across all symptoms related to the body’s endocannabinoid system in enabling organ system homeostasis, there is no doubt that further research is needed. However, there is also no doubt that there are prevalent compassionate access patient populations in Australia that can gain substantial net clinical benefit and health systems net benefit right now as in other countries in practice as well as in trial settings [7, 8], given synthesis of current international knowledge and evidence [2–4, 7–15].

Aged care safety dilemma: Caring‐for‐self versus caring‐for‐residents

To identify aged care specific work health and safety management issues by applying James Reasons safety culture theory to one residential aged care provider in Australia.