This is my pentultimate piece for the “President’s Message” section of the Interchange. As such, I thought it was appropriate to provide a “one person’s analysis” of where we are as a Society and what may lie ahead. I have chosen to present my thoughts in the format of a SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-OpportunitiesThreats) analysis of the ASCCA and the landscape we reside within. The SWOT may produ...

Introduction: Health tourism industry is growing in border provinces of the country, especially in the areas where tourists feel more comfortable as a result of distance from stressful urban life. This research was done to promote Health Tourism Industry in Ardabil. Methods: This is an analytic study. The data were gathered by means of library technique f...

Clusters are geographically close groups of related companies or institutions related to a certain area which are inherently more efficient than the other companies due to advantages such as being located in one place, networks, external knowledge, variability of human capital, etc. Today, development through clusters plays a pivotal role in the economic and industrial policies of developed...

SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) has been in use since the 1960s as a tool to assist strategic planning in various types of enterprises including those in the construction industry. Whilst still widely used, the approach has called for improvements to make it more helpful in strategic management. The project described in this paper aimed to study whether the process t...

Clusters are geographically close groups of related companies or institutions related to a certain area which are inherently more efficient than the other companies due to advantages such as being located in one place, networks, external knowledge, variability of human capital, etc. Today, development through clusters plays a pivotal role in the economic and industrial policies of developed...

The fields covered in the workshop of tourism and recreation climatology (biometeorology, bioclimatology, thermal comfort and heat balance modelling, tourism marketing and planning, urban and landscape planning, architecture, climate change, emission reduction and climate change impact assessment) refer to a wide variety of spatial scales and scopes of tourism policy intervention. To more effec...