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 ...

Tourism generates increased income and employment in host countries and regions which substantially improves local economies. On the other hand, the manufacturing sector remains the most important part in regional and national economies. By explicitly embedding a nontraded good sector into a new economic geography model, we were able to investigate the interdependence between the tourism sector...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Prefecture-level administrative units Spatial spillover effect Urban economic growth Urban economic convergence The present study investigates the effect of tourism and its spatial correlation on urban economic growth. The study examines 272 prefecture-level administrative units between 2002 and 2011 in China as the sample and a β convergence model as the frame. ...

Environmental policy is one of the key management dimensions of rejuvenation strategies in mature tourism destinations. Among these, voluntary environmental initiatives are increasingly becoming a relevant theoretical possibility and are an empirical reality. Voluntary environmental initiatives are primarily undertaken in developed countries, mostly in Europe, that is on itself a mature tourism...

Globalisation has given birth to medical tourism. Health and medical tourism are the fastest growing segments in not only developed nations but in developing countries too. India has become a hot destination, as the Indian medical standards match up to the highly prescribed international standards at a very low cost. However, it is an unmixed blessing; along with advantages, it has many uninten...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Northeastern Morocco Luxury tourism Economic development Water resources management Sustainable tourism SWOT analysis The objective of this article is to evaluate the regional development risk for the luxury tourism sector in Saidia, northeastern Morocco. The study aims to provide input for tourism-related water management and governance. Based on a thematic lite...

Although an increasing number of tourism and hospitality educators are incorporating the Internet into their instruction, only few are fully exploiting the Internet’s capabilities to transform and extend their pedagogical models. As it is also generally agreed that we are still in the experimental stage for creating Internet learning environments, this paper aims at reviewing and evaluating the...

This article proposes a novel model to optimize e-marketing planning in tourism sector, based on the convergence among interactive digital television, mobile networks and cloud computing systems. The proposed research approach is exploited, towards efficiently facilitating marketers to accomplish optimum e-marketing data analysis and design effective mobile marketing strategies, targeting poten...

*Control Science Institute of the School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, P.R. China. (e-mail:[email protected]) **Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality in Ohrid, St Clement Ohridski University, 6000 Ohrid, Rep of Macedonia (e-mail:[email protected], [email protected]), ***Department of Computer Engineering Dogus University, Kadikoy, TR-3...