It is common in tourism and leisure literature to define and approach tourism subgroups in terms of the presence of the tourists in certain spaces. This approach is challenged in the present paper. It is argued that the understanding of heritage tourism should be based on the link between the individual and the space, namely tourist perceptions of a site relative to their own heritage. Based on...

Background. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of media advertising in the development of sports tourism in Guilan province. Methods. The research method is a descriptive-survey based on the structural equation model (Lisrel). The statistical population of the study was included managers of tourism, sport management professors, managers, and experts of tourism agencies that ...

Web-based tourism information systems should not only provide access to various tourism products, but should also present accompanying destination information, comprising among others information on cultural heritage. The generic platform for web-based destination information systems Tiscover tries to cope with this need. Tiscover supports three different access paradigms together with appropri...

The Internet can be a powerful cross-cultural incoming tourism communication tool if used in a proper way. Visitor images of destinations are important drivers of consumer choice and therefore, how destinations provide information to visitors is critically important to image formation. This text first looks at the general features of Internet as a cross-culture communication tool in tourism, ba...

the aim of the present study was to appraisal the prose and cone of shiraz city in terms of its potential in the context of health tourism.the statistical sample included medical and health tourism sector in the city of shiraz in the northwest of fars province, south of iran. the efficient authorities on the topic were identified through the hospitals engaging in medical tourism. the research w...

Cultural tourism is considered to be a niche market and little attention has been paid to it, as compared with mass tourism. Moreover, visitors have little motivation to visit actual historical sites and read the story displayed behind the exhibitions. These issues highlight a good opportunity to increase further potential extended tourism and increase the motivation of visitors. To broaden and...

tourism has traditionally been implemented by means of different motivators. tourism began in 1330 and the ecotourism is the main reason for the development of personality and promotion of cultures. circulating in the nature is a course of thinking for scientists in islam. ecotourism is a branch of tourism and it enters the world of its literature in 1970. ecotourism has been doubled in compari...

The paper attempts to list problems according to the concept of sustainable tourism in Poland. This concept must be discussed both in terms of the precision of definitions and the criteria to be met by specific forms of tourism that is not only economically viable, but also friendly to the environment (natural, social, and cultural). The second aim of this paper is to show a pragmatic aspect of...

This article advocates that the traditional approach pursued by the tourist business is in need of fundamental revision. Experience has shown that economic development activities like tourism, when they are driven by outsiders (notably transnational corporations), are likely to deplete the cultural and social capital that is necessary for sustainable community economic development. It is assume...