Conceptualizing Destination Performance Evaluation for Internal Destination Benchmarking: A Review

Benchmarking Wine Tourism Destination Websites

This paper aimed first to benchmark wine tourism websites in Spain and Australia, using the eMICA model, evaluating the extent of their Internet commerce adoption and second to test the robustness of the approach. The model served as a valuable tool to benchmark wine tourism websites in Spain and Australia in terms of the highest stage and level reached, both in a short time series and in a cro...

Performance measures: the destination or the journey?

A Novel Destination

In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), the aim forwarding/routing protocols is to achieve a high delivery ratio of packets/bundles at the lowest possible bandwidth space and energy. Therefore, finding a protocol which uses resource to achieve high delivery ratio and low latency is an open research question. This paper proposes a quota protocol which confines the number of replicas and forwards them...

Pragmatic Destination Descriptions 1 Running head: PRAGMATIC DESTINATION DESCRIPTIONS Pragmatic Construction of Destination Descriptions for Urban Environments

Destination descriptions are route descriptions focusing on the ‘where’ of the destination instead of the ‘how’ to reach it. They provide first a coarse reference to the destination, and then increasingly more detailed ones as the description proceeds. We introduce a definition of destination descriptions, along with an analysis of the construction and interpretation of destination descriptions...

Index of destination attractiveness as a tool for destination attractiveness assessment

Tourism attractions are widely recognized as the major determinants of the destination competitiveness. Global tourism market is becoming fi ercely competitive environment and tourism destinations are under extreme pressure to rejuvenate and to enhance their attractiveness in order to remain competitive. Th is paper has two main goals. First goal of the paper is to advance existing body of know...