Tourism is an industry capable of changing the socio-cultural, economic and environmental face of the world .Tourism is one of the largest and fast growing industries in the world. It has the potential to influence the living pattern of communities. It is one of the most important channels of cultural exchange which breaks down the barriers between people of different parts of the world. It is ...

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...

This paper advances understanding of tourism mobility trajectories and outcomes by discussing if the trajectory of tourism mobility is path dependent or path creating and, therefore, whether tourism is locked into existing sub optimal pathways, or is there scope for creating significantly more sustainable future pathways. Tourism mobilities are understood in the context of overall shifts in cor...

Geomorphosites or special geomorphologic sites are new concepts which have entered tourism literature with anemphasis on special sites. Basically, the goal for discussing such concepts is to identify landforms with specialimportance on understanding the geomorphologic structure of a region and their scientific, ecological, cultural,aesthetic, and economical values. Generally, they are used for ...

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...

Cultural heritage appreciation is a privileged area of application for innovative, natural– language centred applications. In this paper we discuss some of the opportunities and challenges with a specific view of intelligent information presentation, that takes into account the user characteristics and behaviour and the context of the interaction. We make reference to the new PEACH project, aim...

The history and memories of past events are relayed through popular culture, the media and the public sphere. City tours organized for tourists can be said to be a special part of popular culture and the public sphere. Since 2006 there has been an organised war tour in the City of Dubrovnik which follows the “routes” of war aggression and the devastation of the town. In this paper, one such spe...

Culture is one of the factors tourists consider to choose their destination, and what is the level of cultural Host community and cultural differences compared to what other nations. Therefore, recognizing the culture of the society itself is one of the ways in which it can attract the tourists by refining its competitive advantages and by stepping up the knowledge of the weaknesses in or...