Modelling the Effect of Spiritual Tourism Motivators on Spiritual Tourism Consumption

Spiritual Tourism: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Travel

The Dao of the sceptic and the spiritual: attitudinal and cultural influences on preferences for sustainable tourism services in the domestic Chinese tourism market

The study assesses Chinese tourist preferences for southwest China destination attributes – including the availability of sustainable tourism services (STS). Using the choice experiment method, the influence of attitudinal variables and of cultural values on preferences is also estimated. Data are collected from 213 middle class respondents in Beijing and Chengdu. STS is the only destination at...

The effect of spiritual beliefs on outcome from illness.

We aimed to assess the role of spiritual belief in clinical outcome of patients nine months after hospital admission. Two hundred and fifty patients admitted to a London teaching hospital were recruited and followed up for nine months. Outcome measures were clinical status as recorded in the outpatient records and patients' self reported health status and beliefs. A hundred and ninety-seven (79...

The Tourism Industry of Ethics and Tourism

The tourism industry is one of the largest industries in the world, and despite recent events that have made its operating environment more complex, the industry continues to grow [Theobald, 2005, Global Tourism, 3rd., Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier]. Commensurate to the size of the industry is a growth in the number of students pursuing degree courses in tourism around the world. Despite an in...

the washback effect of discretepoint vs. integrative tests on the retention of content in knowledge tests

در این پایان نامه تاثیر دو نوع تست جزیی نگر و کلی نگر بر به یادسپاری محتوا ارزیابی شده که نتایج نشان دهندهکارایی تستهای کلی نگر بیشتر از سایر آزمونها است