Marine reserve design often considers potential benefits to conservation and/or fisheries but typically ignores potential revenues generated through tourism. Since tourism can be the main source of economic benefits for many marine reserves worldwide, ignoring tourism objectives in the design process might lead to sub-optimal outcomes. To incorporate tourism benefits into marine reserve design,...

The global importance of tourism is steadily rising,creating new job opportunities in many countries. Today’s information management solutions for the complex tasks of tourism intermediaries are still at an early stage from a semantic point of view. This paper presents some preliminary results of OnTourism Project. OnTourism is aimed at (1) applying, concretizing and evaluating Semantic Web tec...

Tourism in general has become one of the major cultural and economic forces in the world today and is regarded as an important means to benefit local communities. Langkawi for example, has experienced tremendous development since declared a duty free island in 1987. Many construction projects are carried out on the islands with only one purpose: to accommodate tourism development. Rapid investm...

Previous research has not adequately measured the effectiveness of a state’s promotion of its tourism product. In this research, the authors use an econometric model to measure the impact of the Croatian, Czech, and Slovak states’ attempts to promote their tourism products abroad. The findings show the effectiveness of the state’s attempts to market their products. The dependent variables in th...

This study contributes to the debate on tourism and local development through evaluating an ambivalent case of traditional festival revival and tourism development in Hong Kong: Bun Festival tourism in Cheung Chau Island. The significance of this case is that it will put into relief the significance of ‘cultural sustainability’— an evaluative factor that is very insufficiently emphasized and th...

The development of rural tourism can enhance the regional economic development; improve the environment of the countries and the living conditions of the native dweller. In China, the study of countryside tourism mainly focuses on the microcosmic. However, as the progress of countryside tourism is a systematic issue, it should be studied systematically. From the view of Systematics and Synerget...

The non-objective and non-scientific evaluation of sports tourism resources has become a bottleneck which restricts the development of sports tourism industry. In order to make the evaluation of sports tourism resources have more comprehensiveness, accuracy and scientificalness and to promote the healthy and sustainable development of sports tourism industry, this paper, based on the AHP-FUZZY ...

The tourism industry depends on complex value creation chains involving a large number of participants that change frequently and rapidly. In addition, the products of tourism industry are complex and they will perish if they are not sold in time. For these reasons, the ideal tourism information systems require a lot of flexibility of underlying systems. Moreover, they comprise accurate access ...

Planning and implementing strategies to develop tourism has long been a priority issue for policy makers and decision makers: hence, a remarkable interest for quantitative methods aimed to assess the extent to which possible modifications of some determinants can affect the tourism flows of the destination country. Over the last decades, indeed, in Italy as well as in many other destinations wo...

This paper focuses on the tourism-related opinion mining, including tourism-related opinion detection and tourist attraction target identification. The experimental data are blog articles labeled as in the domestic tourism category in a blogspace. Annotators were asked to annotate the opinion polarity and the opinion target for every sentence. Different strategies and features have been propose...