DESCRIPTIVE READING MATERIALS FOR TENTH GRADERS: PALEMBANG TOURIST DESTINATIONS

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction for Tenth Graders

one school was assigned at random to receive a special 20-session risk\x=req-\ reduction intervention and one school served as a control. At a two-month follow-up, risk factor knowledge scores were significantly greater for students in the treatment group. Compared with controls, a higher proportion of those in the treatment group who were not exercising regularly at baseline reported regular e...

Sustainable tourist development in Italian holiday destinations

This paper argues that tourism will become a major activity in a modern welfare state, which will have serious consequences for environmental sustainability. This issue calls for an assessment of the pros and cons of the ecological efficiency of tourism. We propose an overall efficiency indicator that comprises both a sustainable tourism index and an economic efficiency index. Based on a data s...

The Dynamics of Search Engine Marketing for Tourist Destinations

Search engine marketing (SEM) has become an important strategic tool for destinations and tourism organizations to promote and advertise online. Due to the dynamic and constantly evolving relationships among travelers as information searchers, search engines, and the online tourism domain, the authors argued that a new model must be conceived to capture these relationships in order to better in...

Environmental management with community involvement at tourist destinations

Enhancing Tenth Graders’ Earth-Science Learning Through Computer-Assisted Instruction

This study investigated the comparative efficiency of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and traditional teaching methods on tenth-graders’ learning of earth science in Taiwan. A total of 151 students enrolled in four earth science classes participated in this pretest/post-test controlgroup experiment. Experimental-group students learned earth science concepts through the CAI, whereas comparis...