Constructing mass tourism

Modelling the sustainability of mass tourism in island tourist economies

Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and is a source of jobs across national and regional economies. Assessing the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism development has become a major activity within the tourism and sustainable development communities. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the contribution of system dynamics for analysing policies that can n...

Constructing and applying an improved fuzzy time series model: Taking the tourism industry for example

This study develops an improved fuzzy time series models for forecasting short-term series data. The forecasts were obtained by comparing the proposed improved fuzzy time series, Hwang’s fuzzy time series, and heuristic fuzzy time series. The tourism from Taiwan to the United States was used to build the sample sets which were officially published annual data for the period of 1991–2001. The ro...

Constructing partnerships for protected area tourism planning in an era of change and messiness

Constructing Paradise: The Impacts of Big Tourism in the Mexican Coastal Zone

Looks count: Computing and constructing visually expressive mass customized housing

This paper introduces new research that seeks to develop low-cost, high quality, mass customizable building assembly systems that provide visually rich design variations for housing or other small structures. The building systems are intended to be tailored for particular cultures and communities by incorporating vernacular decorative design into the assembly design. Two complementary research ...