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 tourism in Miaoli has been in great development recently. The wonderful scenery and other potential conditions have sufficient incentives to attract tourists. Though there is such a huge tourist economic market, most tourist service providers are unfortunately not able to integrate the information technology and the tourist services effectively. Therefore, we guide the tourism industry “Cas...

It has been several decades since disintermediation was first known (although under other terms), and it seems that disintermediation has become increasingly intense, particularly in the tourism industry where many large hotels and airlines have successfully utilized the Internet and website as a direct channel to sell to their customers. This paper examines disintermediation issues and situati...

The website network of a tourism destination is examined. The main statistical characteristics of the underlying graph are calculated. The topology of the network is similar to the one characterizing similar systems. However, some differences are found, mainly due to the relatively poor connectivity among the vertices of the network. PACS: 89.20.Hh; 89.75.Da; 89.75.Fb; 89.75.Hc

Urban Exploration (U.E.), the activity of exploring hidden parts of the city, is increasingly discussed in a range of academic papers, yet the aspects of this activity which are associated with travel and consumption have not been explored. However, there have been a number of related calls for research. This paper identifies that U.E. requires greater critical inquiry. It is noted that U.E. dr...

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...

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...