Between exploration and tourism: Carl Irminger’s Iceland travel diary 1826

The diary of Thomas Giordani Wright, Newcastle doctor, 1826–1829

her lunacy becoming a public problem" (p. 119). There are, as he forthrightly acknowledges, two essential limitations on his findings: they relate only to the rich, for whom alone the expense of a lunacy inquisition was either possible or desirable; and the data that have survived relate very largely to only the two decades between 1825 and 1845, immediately preceding the heyday of the asylum. ...

The Economic of Tourism and Travel Accommodation

The Imminus Travel and Tourism Intranet

Viewdata (i.e. videotex) has been the underlying technology for electronic package holiday distribution in Britain for two decades. Increasingly, however, there is a need to move away from this technology platform towards a more modern and flexible electronic commerce environment in which travel and tourism companies can trade. The emergence of Internet-based and other technologies as well as c...

Tourism and Travel Electronic Commerce in China

China, a fast-growing developing country, is one of the world’s most popular tourism destinations because of its large number of historical and natural scenic attractions. With the development of the Internet, tourism and travel electronic commerce (ecommerce) have flourished in China, and the travel industry has experienced significant structural changes since 1999. This study examines how tou...

Intelligent Systems in Travel and Tourism

Travel and tourism is the leading application field in the b2c e-commerce, it represents nearly 50% of the total b2c turnover. Already in the past travel applications were at the forefront of Information Technology, i.e., the airline Computerized Reservation Systems in the early 60s. The industry and its product have rather specific features which explain this circumstance: the product is a con...