Climate change impact on migration, travel, travel destinations and the tourism industry

Understanding Travel Destinations From Structured Tourism Blogs

The increasing popularity of tourist generated content has created abundant opportunities for people to understand the opinions and experiences of prior tourists. However, till now no framework has been presented to automatically discover useful patterns from structured tourism blogs. In this paper, we present a method to mine the tourism information such as frequented spots and popular travel ...

Tourism under climate change: will slow travel supersede short breaks?

Climate change is affecting the tourism industry through many different mechanisms (Weaver 2011;Gössling, 2002, 2007; Berrittella et al. 2005; Hall and Higham 2005; Peeters 2005; Dubois and Ceron 2006; Becken and Hay 2007; Buckley 2008; UNWTO-UNEP-WMO 2008;Gössling et al. 2009). These include: environmental changes and human responses at tourist destinations and countries of origin (Koenig and ...

The Effects of Terrorism on the Travel and Tourism Industry

The Economic of Tourism and Travel Accommodation

Investigating the Impact of Tourists' Travel Distance on the Domestic Tourism Demand in Mashhad

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of the travel distance of tourists on the demand for domestic tourism in Mashhad. Data used in this research was cross-sectional which includes 1388 domestic tourist families who stayed for at least one night in Mashhad City in 2005. The sample was selected using a randomized stratified sampling method and the data was gathered by a...