Responsible tourism

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...

Designing Tourism Places: Understanding the Tourism Experience through Our Senses

Volatility in International Tourism Demand for Small Island Tourism Economies

Volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals is defined as the squared deviation from mean monthly international tourist arrivals. Consequently, volatility is directly related to the standard deviation, which is a common measure of financial risk. Fluctuating variations, or conditional volatility, in international monthly tourist arrivals are typically associated with unanticipated even...

Video Tourism: A Video Extension to Photo Tourism

Photo tourism is a system which interactively explores an unstructured collection of photographs and reconstructs the viewpoints of the cameras which took each photograph and also produces a sparse point cloud of the scene. This project extends this concept to video, whereby any video taken of the same scene that has been reconstructed can be shown as a trajectory that was taken to capture that...

Natural Disaster Tourism as a Type of Dark Tourism

This theoretical paper combines the academic discourse regarding a specific part of dark tourism. Based on the literature analysis, distinction of natural disasters in thanatourism was investigated, which is connected with dynamic geographical conditions. Natural disasters used to play an important role in social life by their appearance in myths and religions. Nowadays, tourists pursuing natur...