Tourism Planning Based on Educational Tourism in Agro-Tourism

National and Regional Tourism Planning

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...

MultiAgent Tourism System: An Agent Application on the Tourism Industry

The use of Agent technology is a very useful tool to find a solution to every day problems in order to improve the quality of life of people. The agent paradigm let us create systems which can offer complex and sophisticated services to different users. Using frameworks like JADE-LEAP, we can even have agents running on our mobile or PDA, giving us the capability to implement a flexible, open, ...

Generating Educational Tourism Narratives from Wikipedia

We present a narrative theory-based approach to data mining that generates cohesive stories from a Wikipedia corpus. This approach is based on a data mining-friendly view of narrative derived from narratology, and uses a prototype mining algorithm that implements this view. Our initial test case and focus is that of field-based educational tour narrative generation, for which we have successful...

Pragmatic planning in multistakeholder tourism–environmental conflicts

©2002 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Originally appeared in Journal of Planning Education and Research 22(2002): 164–77. Used by permission. This article advocates a neopragmatic approach to collaborative planning in protected areas characterized by historical conflict among diverse stakeholders. Our example is a multisectoral process initiated to address use and development con...