Despite the removal of restrictions on movement and increasing female participation in migration, only a minority of migrant parents in South Africa include their children in their destination household. Quantitative analyses of the circumstances in which children accompany a migrant parent have been limited by the lack of available data that document family arrangements from the perspective of...

In this paper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cooperative communication system is studied, wherein a source transmits information to the destination through an energy harvesting decode-and-forward UAV. It is assumed that the UAV can freely move in between the source-destination pair to set up line of sight communications with the both nodes. Since the battery of the UAV may be limite...

This paper examines joint destination marketing in Vietnam, a transitional economy experiencing a rapid growth in tourism. Based on in-depth interviews with representatives of provincial destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and the analysis of their web-sites, the paper considers destination marketing by the eight provinces of the South Central Coast, the most dynamic tourism region in Vi...

Destination memory refers to the recall of the destination of previously relayed information, and source memory refers to the recollection of the origin of received information. We compared both memory systems in Huntington's disease (HD) participants. For this, HD participants and healthy adults had to put 12 items in a black or a white box (destination task), and to extract another 12 items f...

Destination personality refers to human personality traits associated with a destination. It has become an important construct, as tourism managers attempt to understand people's choices to fi nd ways to diff erentiate their destination in an increasingly complex marketplace. Th e present paper outlines a study in which a destination personality scale was used that provides insight into diff er...

Destination descriptions are route descriptions focusing on the ‘where’ of the destination instead of the ‘how’ to reach it. They provide first a coarse reference to the destination, and then increasingly more detailed ones as the description proceeds. In this paper, we introduce a definition of destination descriptions, along with an analysis of the construction and interpretation of destinati...

A modern tourist product, which is adjusted to the needs of new tourists no longer includes a tourist partnership role, but individualisation and personalisation of the experience itself. Should such a base be accepted, it is to be concluded that traditional positioning of destination tourist offers on both macro and micro levels is no longer sufficient, i.e. positioning based on comparative ad...