Tourism is a dynamic and growing industry, with the Internet offering a multitude of new ways of conducting tourism business and promoting tourism destinations (World Tourism Organization, 2007). As the Forrester Research reported in 2005, in Europe 40% of users of tourism services book their travels on the Web. However, current information technologies are hardly capable of making full use of ...

In recent years, global climate abnormalities and disasters happening everywhere have made people begin to emphasize the issues of environmental protection, energy consumption and carbon reduction. In addition, green consumerism and the green energy industry have become hot topics globally. As the national income increases, tourism has become a part of many people’s lives. Since the demand for ...

We use the sample from 1978 to 2014 for the paper (doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2016.05.005). The data on GDP at constant 2005 USD (US dollar), and the gross fixed capital formation at constant 2005 USD are extracted from the World Bank (2015). The labour stock which includes direct and indirect employment and the tourism receipts (in USD) are sourced from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (http...

This study applied a financial portfolio theory to estimate optimal market mixes to minimize the instability of inbound tourist market demand. An empirical analysis was applied to inbound tourists to Taiwan. The results shed light on diversification in tourism market and offer tourism authorities and policy-makers explicit guidelines for risk management in the destination planning process. Spec...

Since 21st century, developing E-commerce has overthrown the traditional tour operation. Tourism supply chain is an alliance established on confidence between each tour operator. And it also changes the traditional business mode. In this paper, the authors make the E-commerce as the breakthrough point, and analyze the traditional tourism supply chain mode, and then propose an evaluation index s...

A shift of attention from the dominant product-orientation in environmentally sustainable tourism to a demand-orientation has been suggested as a way of minimising the effects of the inherent trade-offs the tourism industry faces between maximization of profits and investment in environmental sustainability. The success of such an approach depends on the existence of a class of tourists who are...

2 INTRODUCTION This paper starts from two propositions relating to tourism-migration relationships, and knowledge transfer. First, there has been considerable interest in recent years in ideas relating to 'tourist-migrant' workers, that is, in the complex interrelationships between economic and cultural/tourism motivations, particularly amongst young people. However, this represents only one of...

This paper deals with the relationship between international trade and tourism. We focus on the effect that German tourism to Spain has on German imports of Spanish wine. Due to the different properties of the series under analysis, which display different orders of integration, a long memory regression model is used, where tourism is supposed to be exogenous. The period covered is January 1998...