Time to transform the way we travel?: A conceptual framework for slow tourism and travel research

The Economic of Tourism and Travel Accommodation

A Long Way to Travel

Suggested citation for this article: Wilcox LS. A long way to travel. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] 2005 Oct [date cited]. The travel experiences of one Lemuel Gulliver were first published in 1726 (1). Captain Gulliver, an ordinary, middle class Englishman, has a series of remarkable adventures , beginning with his trip to the island of Lilliput. Gulliver awakes on the island after survivin...

Tourism under climate change: will slow travel supersede short breaks?

Climate change is affecting the tourism industry through many different mechanisms (Weaver 2011;Gössling, 2002, 2007; Berrittella et al. 2005; Hall and Higham 2005; Peeters 2005; Dubois and Ceron 2006; Becken and Hay 2007; Buckley 2008; UNWTO-UNEP-WMO 2008;Gössling et al. 2009). These include: environmental changes and human responses at tourist destinations and countries of origin (Koenig and ...

The Imminus Travel and Tourism Intranet

Viewdata (i.e. videotex) has been the underlying technology for electronic package holiday distribution in Britain for two decades. Increasingly, however, there is a need to move away from this technology platform towards a more modern and flexible electronic commerce environment in which travel and tourism companies can trade. The emergence of Internet-based and other technologies as well as c...

Finding the nearest facility for travel and waiting time in a transport network

One of user's queries from navigation service is to find the nearest facility in terms of time. The facility that is being questioned by the user as a destination may have a queuing service system (e.g. bank), which means that the cost function of the shortest path includes the waiting time at the destination as well as the travel time. This research conducts in the zone 1 of Mashhad with Bank ...