An optimal control model shows how a jurisdiction can tax tourists in a way that maximizes its revenues net of its costs in serving tourists: By relating its tax rate to its popularity with tourists. When its popularity waxes, it should raise the tax rate; when its popularity wanes, it should lower the tax rate. Extensions consider the e ects on the tax of the discount rate, tourist prices, tou...

In this paper we analyze a time series measuring the monthly flow of US tourists to Israel over the period 1997-2006. We pay particular attention to the response of tourists to variations in the intensity the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing a distinction between actual conflict intensity and the intensity with which the conflict is reported in the US television media. We find that differe...

we conducted environmental and laboratory investigations to elucidate the cause. Setting.\p=m-\Tourists traveling by bus through Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. Participants.\p=m-\Staff of a restaurant at a business complex implicated as the outbreak source, convenience sample of persons on buses that had stopped there, and bus employees. Main Outcome Measures.\p=m-\Odds ratios (ORs) ...

One manifestation of globalization is medical tourism. As its implications remain largely unknown, we reviewed claimed benefits and risks. Driven by high health-care costs, long waiting periods, or lack of access to new therapies in developed countries, most medical tourists (largely from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe) seek care in Asia and Latin America. Although individual pat...

The work described in this paper focuses on how to reveal culturally-related data to city tourists to help them in navigating both the physical space through which they are moving (the cityscape) and a conceptual space around points of interest which links them through shared stories of time, place, people and theme (the datascape). The research goal is to discover to what extent navigational s...

Nowadays, applications that are developed to support tourists should go much further than simply providing information about places or recommending places or routes based on the user location. They should be able to provide users with simple mechanisms to interact with places of interest and provide them with relevant information and recommendations about new relevant places of interest or tour...

While tourism presents considerable potential for the use of new mobile technologies, we currently have little understanding of how tourists organise their activities or of the problems they face. This paper discusses an ethnographic study of tourism focusing on its collaborative nature, and how this could be better supported with new technologies. Three types of collaboration are outlined: col...

Prior research has noted a statistical relationship between increased crime rates and tourism in resort destination areas. This study utilizes data from two Hawaii counties to derive independent crime rates for tourist and resident sub-populations. The analysis reveals that tourists in both counties experienced higher rates of larceny, robbery, and rape than residents. In Honolulu, tourists als...

This paper presents a novel method for modeling the spatio-temporal movements of tourists at the macro level using Markov Chains methodology. Markov Chains are used extensively in modeling random phenomena which results in a sequence of events linked together under the assumption of first-order dependence. In this paper, we utilize Markov Chains to analyze the outcome and trend of events associ...

Knowing tourists’ individual preferences provides the possibility to offer personalized tours. The challenge is to capture these preferences using a mobile device. During a field study in Görlitz three methods for elicitation were evaluated by computing the correlation between the tourists’ and the algorithms’ rankings. The results served to clarify fundamental questions en route to develop a p...