Sociological Analyze of Women's Tour Guide Employment constraints on Tourism

Emotive Tour Guide System

The Emotive Tour Guide System is a mobile context-aware and spatial-aware system, including an intelligent emotional guide with personality, offering the user with an affective multimodal interaction interface.

Intelligent Mobile Tour Guide

‘Agents’ research has been going on for more than two decades now. The idea of improving assistance by agents capable of responding to the needs and emotional states of the users is not new, yet not much has been achieved so far. The main aim of this paper is to describe an intelligent context-aware mobile tour guide, having a biologically inspired architecture of emotion that allows the guide ...

A Quick Tour of Tourism Forecasting

Paul Goodwin is Foresight’s Research Column editor. His earlier columns covered new-product forecasting (Spring 2008), new approaches to supermarket forecasting (Summer 2007), and recent studies of forecasting know-how, training, and information sharing (Spring 2007). INTRODUCTION As the world’s largest industry, it is responsible for the biggest movement of people across the globe. National ec...

Current Sociological Theories and Issues in Tourism

This article reviews the changing nature of contemporary tourism and sociological approaches to its study. We examine the broad social trends and specific historical events that recently affected tourism and discuss how the focus of sociological inquiry in tourism studies shifted from earlier discourses of authenticity and the tourist gaze to three novel theoretical approaches, the mobilities “...

Transportation and Minority Womens Employment: Insights from New York

Discovering Next Generation Tourism Information Systems: A Tour on TIScover

Information technology has been playing a fundamental role in the tourism industry for a long time. The Internet particularly is increasingly emerging as a perfect platform to bring tourism products direct to the customer. Web-based tourism information systems, however, are required not only to offer online brochures but also to provide both value and service. The Austrian tourism information s...