The Experience of Graduation Tourism

Designing Tourism Places: Understanding the Tourism Experience through Our Senses

The effects of medical tourism: Thailand's experience.

OBJECTIVE To explore the positive and negative effects of medical tourism on the economy, health staff and medical costs in Thailand. METHODS The financial repercussions of medical tourism were estimated from commerce ministry data, with modifications and extrapolations. Survey data on 4755 foreign and Thai outpatients in two private hospitals were used to explore how medical tourism affects ...

Smart Tourism Destinations Enhancing Tourism Experience Through Personalisation of Services

Bringing smartness into tourism destinations requires dynamically interconnecting stakeholders through a technological platform on which information relating to tourism activities could be exchanged instantly. Instant information exchange has also created extremely large data sets known as Big Data that may be analysed computationally to reveal patterns and trends. Smart Tourism Destinations sh...

EN to RN: the transition experience pre- and post-graduation.

INTRODUCTION The context for this study is a conversion program for enrolled nurses (ENs) or division 2 level nurses who want to further their career as a registered nurse (RN) or division 1 nurse. While the conversion program is available to both metropolitan and rural nurses, it is designed specifically for experienced rural ENs. The conversion program is able to offer an educational alternat...

Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism Experience

This paper aims at a conceptual clarification of the meanings of authenticity in tourist experiences. Three approaches are discussed, objectivism, constructivism, and postmodernism, and the limits of {{object-related authenticity|| are also exposed. It is suggested that existential authenticity is an alternative source in tourism, regardless of whether the toured objects are authentic. This con...