today, the tourism industry is a major source of income for many countries. but the tourism as an economic activity mentioned before, is a cultural phenomenon in nature and the main attraction of tourism development as well. given the special vulnerability and fragility of cultural heritage, tourism development, in some cases, can cause damage to indigenous cultural patterns. this is in relatio...

introduction rural areas, due to their landscapes, natural attractions and abilities attract tourists. however, there emerge kinds of tourism that with respect to conditions and particularities leave behind different impacts and consequences around that rural set up. in iran, too, attractions and scenic landscapes as well as suitable ecological condition of some of the villages have caused rema...

In tourism industry there is strong comprehensive nature, high interrelatedness, long industrial chain, and in particular, featuring integration with industry. As tourism is the industry to be defined according to tourists’ need, tourists consumption of service of food, transportation, accommodations, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment in the travel process will naturally link with a numbe...

Introduction ............................................................................................ 23 I. Tourism and the Environment: An Introduction to the Relationship ...... 26 II. The Concept of Sustainable Tourism ............................................... 29 III. Ecotourism: Environmentally Sustainable Tourism? ........................... 32 IV. The Regulation of Tourism by In...

Educational tourism, a burgeoning section in China’s tourism market, has attracted great attention from both industry and researchers, however, the focus always falls on young people, the educational demands of other tourists are largely neglected. The paper, firstly does a comprehensive analysis of situation and problems of Chinese inbound, outbound and domestic education tourism markets, and ...

the rapid and uncontrolled growth of tourism, that has influenced the economic foundations of rural economy, has caused different economic impacts and consequences in the rural areas of the central district of the city of nowshahr. the purpose of this study is to recognize and analyze the impacts of tourism in this area based on the principles of sustainable tourism and relevant theoretical bas...

The focus of this research is on educational tourism which specifically designed to fulfill the scientific capacity tourists, thereby being able fill in their insights with travel activities. In study, planning based will be carried out by involving local communities. potential for seen components products, explains form tourism, and tours Buana Amertha Sari Agro-tourism. This type descriptive ...

In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland i...

This article explored into the advantages of Web data application in forecasting tourism demand in China. The authors constructed a mapping relation between Web information organization and tourism demand, and elaborated the methods of using Web data mining Carries to analyze and forecast tourism demands and the principles of constructing the knowledge library based on Web data analysis with cl...