This paper introduces an approach of enhancing tourism web sites, giving the ability for such sites to be used as a tool to allow tourists to tag content of choice for downloading and viewing on their own mobile device whilst on visit. Tourists, upon installation to their mobile device, can view content material and a map of Mytilene (Lesvos, Greece) without the need to “connect” to any mobile ...

Seeking to shift the discussion of the concept of authenticity in tourism scholarship from the dominant concern with tourist experiences to the more sociological problem of the processes of authentication of tourist attractions, we conceptualize two analytically distinct, but practically often intersecting, modes of authentication of attractions, “cool” and “hot”. Through a range of examples, w...

We assess the strength of the different conditions identified in the literature of robust mechanism design. We focus on three conditions: ex post incentive compatibility, robust monotonicity, and robust measurability. Ex post incentive compatibility has been shown to be necessary for any concept of robust implementation, while robust monotonicity and robust measurability have been shown to be n...

The recent case of a 41-year-old British tourist, whose breast cancer was first suggested by a visit to a popular tourist attraction in Scotland, prompted us to consider how travel may serendipitously yield unforeseen diagnoses. The woman and her family were entertained in the thermal imaging camera room of the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions exhibit in Edinburgh when she noticed that her...

In this study, the investigators use scores from the Tourist Ecological Orientation (TEO) Scale (Uriely, Reichel & Shani, 2007) of Costa Rica visitors to understand how their ecological orientation and interest in ecological practices influence accommodation and destination site choices. Results from this study were intended to be used to inform professionals in the tourism industry on how they...

Mobile Tourist Guides evolve towards automated personalised tour planning devices [4]. The contribution of this paper is to put forward a combined artificial intelligence and metaheuristic approach to solve Tourist Trip Design Problems (TTDP). The approach enables fast decision support for tourists on small footprint mobile devices. The Orienteering Problem, which originates in the Operational ...

Recent developments in both wireless communications and personal navigation technologies have made the concept of location-aware services both feasible and economical. Indeed, it is widely projected that the market for such services will increase substantially in the coming years. Obviously this market will provide significant opportunities and challenges for the tourism sector. In this article...

Policy guidelines for regions falling under the new regional competitiveness and employment objective for the 2007-2013 period in the fields of the knowledge economy and the environment, in line with the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives Call for tenders by open procedure N° 2004 CE 16 0 AT 039 Statistical Group: Alessandro Sterlacchini (project coordinator and access to transport indicators), R...

Célia Talma Martins, Américo Azevedo, H. Sofia Pinto, Eugénio Oliveira 1LIACC-NIAD&R, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal 2ISCAP, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, s/n, 4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto INESC Porto, Portugal 5INESC-ID/IST, Rua ALves Redol, 9, 1000-029 Lisboa [email protected]; [email protected]; sofia@...

2 Microrecordings within the posterior nucleus of the hypothalamus in pain and aggressive behaviour Roberto Cordella, Doctor of Phylosophy, 2008, Department of Physiology and Pathology, University of Trieste.