iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of iran. the special factors influence on transi...

Authentication and commodification of cultural events for the tourists has been practiced for a long time. These practices have had both positive and negative effects on the host community and its cultural heritage. Tourism deals with experiences sold to tourists which has had to be authentic. Therefore, this paper aims to look at the authenticity and commodification of cultural events presente...

Geomorphosites or special geomorphologic sites are new concepts which have entered tourism literature with anemphasis on special sites. Basically, the goal for discussing such concepts is to identify landforms with specialimportance on understanding the geomorphologic structure of a region and their scientific, ecological, cultural,aesthetic, and economical values. Generally, they are used for ...

ICTs & Internet Adoption in China’s Tourism Industry Abstract The fast development of information communication technologies (ICT) and the expansion of the Internet have changed industry structures around the world. New technologies have been adopted in the tourism industry in Europe and America for more than 30 years, and the trend is likely to continue into the future. China, as a fast-growin...

Cultural ecosystem services are defined by people's perception of the environment, which make them hard to quantify systematically. Methods to describe cultural benefits from ecosystems typically include resource-demanding survey techniques, which are not suitable to assess cultural ecosystem services for large areas. In this paper we explore a method to quantify cultural benefits through the e...

The purpose of this paper is to explore residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and how they affect attitudes towards local tourism policies. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of community attachment and employment sector of residents. This study presents the results of a quantitative survey among residing families of a small mountain community located in the North-East of Italy. T...

Over the last few decades several countries have looked towards tourism as a means of promoting development and economic growth. Tourism has grown to become the world’s second largest industry, directly accounting for 3.8 percent of global GDP in 2005 according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). Experiences from various countries have shown that tourism can have significant effects...