Social media data are increasingly used as the source of research in a variety of domains. A typical example is urban analytics, which aims at solving urban problems by analyzing data from different sources including social media. The potential value of social media data in tourism studies, which is one of the key topics in urban research, however has been much less investigated. This paper see...

A ta Enom ca Et Tustica, ol 2 (216), N o. 2, p. 10-236 ABSTRACT: Natura 2000 is often equated with protected areas where human activities are significantly limited or even excluded in order to preserve biodiversity. However, Natura 2000 is based on other settings. Most of the activities and projects in the Natura area can be carried out with the mitigation of possible negative impacts. Sometime...

There are many tourism cities in China and sustainable development of urban tourism has become an important field of tourism research. An ecological safety evaluation index system of tourism city was constructed. The evaluation index system was composed of resource, environmental, economic and social subsystem. Classification standard of evaluation indexes was discussed. Then an evaluation mode...

Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are similarly wide-ranging when theorizing turns to the implications of tourism development for subaltern peoples in the region. Just as it is customary to emphasize the historically subordinate status of wome...

Contribution of tourism development to protected area management: local stakeholder perspectives Jianying Xu a , Yihe Lü b , Liding Chen b & Yang Liu b a College of Resource, Environment and Tourism , Capital Normal University , Beijing, China b State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for EcoEnvironmental of Science , Chinese Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 2871, Beij...

with the advent of cyberspace and development of data and information, virtual cities were presented as new forms of city management in different layers and territories. historic and tourism virtual city are among eight types of virtual cities. in this article some guidelines were presented in order to design and manage them based on tehran tourists' need assessment. theoretical framework ...

the establishment and development of industrial and free- trade zones have ever brought about a number of economic, commercial, and industrial benefits. the development of south pars special economic energy zone in the last decade, and following the policy of increasing efficiency in the common area with qatar, other aspects of economic development in kangan township have received little attent...