Heritage is an important part of the international tourism market. As with any resource, sustainable management practices are required to maintain the long-term value of heritage assets. It is claimed that sustainable heritage tourism provides quality experiences for the tourists while protecting the environment and improving the quality of life for local residents. Yet, irrespective of how tou...

Tourism-based employment has been promoted for reducing poverty in the least developed countries (LDCs). However, for employing the poor sustainably, particularly, indigenous minority groups, management has to cope with the socioeconomic disadvantages in these environments. This study aims to explore the challenges and practical strategies for human resource management (HRM) of indigenous minor...

We introduce mobile positioning based data sources in tourism studies using the case study of tourism in Tartu, Estonia. Mobile positioning data is a promising source for tourism geography as it is one easiest and most cost effective sources for investigating the flows of tourists with relatively good spatial and temporal coverage. Mobile positioning data allows one to link the digital track of...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...

ICT platform currently plays a role as a crossover point in business networking, and it enables collaborative consumption that both suppliers of resources and consumers are connected to through social capital. A support organization of tourism resources based on integrated ICT platform enables stable establishment of sharing economy systems. The integrated ICT platform for tourism resources hel...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study of the perceptions of a group of rural Kansas tourism providers to a set of twenty experiential tourism standards. The results of the exploratory study are examined and discussed in the context of current experiential tourism literature and implications for future research are discussed. Finally, implications for management practice are re...

We wish to acknowledge the World Bank and the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) for the use of household survey data. Ms. Betty Msimuko from the Zambia Wildlife Authority provided useful information related to community-based natural resource management and facilitated field site visits in game management areas. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish Inter...

Nature-based tourism has the potential to enhance global biodiversity conservation by providing alternative livelihood strategies for local people, which may alleviate poverty in and around protected areas. Despite the popularity of the concept of nature-based tourism as an integrated conservation and development tool, empirical research on its actual socioeconomic benefits, on the distribution...