Official tourist destination websites: Hierarchical analysis and assessment with ELECTRE-III-H

Islam and Online Imagery on Malaysian Tourist Destination Websites

In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

MODELING TOURIST MOVEMENTS A Local Destination Analysis

Models depicting the spatial movement patterns of tourists within a destination are proposed in this paper. They are developed using an inductive approach based on urban transportation modeling and tourist behavior, to identify explanatory factors that could influence movements. Factors identified included a set of destination characteristics and a set of tourist characteristics that influence ...

Spatial and Temporal Tourist Dispersal Analysis in Multiple Destination Travel

Understanding and Measuring Tourist Destination Images

A destination image is `the expression of all objective knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations, and emotional thoughts an individual or group might have of a particular place' (Lawson and Baud Bovy, 1977). Destination images in ̄uence a tourist's travel decision-making, cognition and behaviour at a destination as well as satisfaction levels and recollection of the experience. This paper...

Delimiting the “Balaton Riviera” tourist destination by using network analysis

Recently the recognition of the role, potential within, and analysis of networks has been increasing in business and academic areasl. Network analysis has also been applied widely in tourism, as numerous researchers are studying connections among elements of tourism, with the main focus on destinations, cooperation and the effi ciency of cooperation among players of destination management organ...