Tourism is seen as an industry that has the potential to provide sustainable economic foundations for indigenous communities in Australia. This article identifies online technology as contributing to the capacity for indigenous communities to access the benefits of tourism. Indigenous communities engaged in tourism can utilize the Internet to supply the tourism product as well as deliver much n...

E-government (e-Gov) has become one of the most important parts of government strategies. Significant efforts have been devoted to e-Gov tourism services in many countries because tourism is one of the major profitable industries. However, the current e-Gov tourism services are limited to simple online presentation of tourism information. Intelligent e-Gov tourism services, such as the personal...

This study examines the role of tourism development in reducing regional income inequality in China. First, the theoretical foundation for how tourism affects regional income inequality is discussed. Second, based on the conditional convergence framework, this study proposes a spatiotemporal autoregressive model to capture spatial and temporal dependence as well as spatial heterogeneity. Touris...

Tourism has become a very important and dynamic sector both in the world economy and particular in the developing countries. Its growth affects not only the activities directly linked to tourism but also other sectors. Tourism is already an important sector in some developing countries and will become so for others. Developing countries have been fast growing in tourism industry terms in the wo...

Medical tourism has been emerged due to the trend of healthcare mobility among different countries. In fact it is a new type of healthcare mobility (1, 2) since not only it involves the clinical services, but also other non-clinical services are likely to be essential and also it is highly affected by cultural factors (3). Eastern countries or developing countries are mostly the main destinatio...

Using data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 1998-1999, this paper examines the expenditure of Australian households on domestic and overseas holidays. During 1998-1999, 37% of the estimated 7.12 million Australian households took holidays, of these 55% within Australia, 33% went overseas and 12% took both types of holidays. The size of the domestic and overseas holiday marke...

This paper introduces the special issue on slum-tourism with a reflection on the state of the art on this new area of tourism research. After a review of the literature we discuss the breaths of research that was presented at the conference „Destination Slum‟, the first international conference on slumtourism. Identifying various dimensions as well as similarities and differences of slum touris...