As tourism becomes an important factor in local economic development, all local government websites should provide the tourism information and related links online to promote local tourism industry. This research is an attempt to investigate the current issues and development of the application...

This paper explores whether websites that offer a global audience virtual access to watering holes in game parks afford African nations opportunities to diminish their international isolation as tourism destinations. The present analysis examines a sample of almost 450 tourism websites...

The purpose of this study investigating the affecting factors of attracting foreign tourists. This study is an applied research regarding the purpose and is a survey based and descriptive study regarding the method of execution. The sample of this study is foreign tourists that came to city of...

In an increasingly dynamic market, with complex consumer behavior and product attributes, the fundamental task for destination management is understanding what are the new tourism developments and trends, the new techniques and approaches required to handle them effectively, the new business...

Language plays important roles in both internal and external communications in the competitiveness of the tourism industry. Communication involves giving, getting, and highlighting information. Communication also enhances understanding and establishing harmonious relationships among people....

This paper comes to present and analyze the features of tourism in the main countries in Central and Western Europe, as well as the different strategies these countries adopt in order to maintain the competitiveness of the field. In the beginning, we have defined competitiveness, as the...

Different economic methods are being used to estimate the economic benefits generated by nature (wildlife) tourism. The most prominent of these are economic valuation analysis and economic impact analysis. These methods often provide divergent and conflicting estimates of the economic benefits...

This paper is an exploratory analysis in which we will focus on how the internet and information and communication technologies (Ict's) are shaping the relationships structure of the distribution channel and how do channel members perceive the impact of consumer's participation on the value...

Despite the increasing debate in literature on both tourism clusters and medical tourism, the role played by the government in medical tourism clusters remains vastly unexplored. The aim of the present paper is to explore government initiatives in clusters where the medical and tourism...

In this article, we use both graphical and analytical methods to investigate the market structure of one of the world’s fastest growing industries. For the German and Italian datasets, we show that the size distribution of tourism industry is heavy-tailed and consistent with a power-law...