Dr. Pan obtained his Ph.D. in Tourism Management from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 2003. He worked for two years as a post-doctorial associate at Cornell University before he joined the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in College of Charleston as a faculty member and the Head of Research in the Office of Tourism Analysis. His works have been appeared in Annal...

In the present international political and economic context, the problem of how to deal with stagnation and possible decline in tourism demand is pressing. In this paper, we examine how mature tourism destinations might address this problem. We focus on the patterns of development and land use regulation followed in the two largest destinations in the Oceanic ‘sun and surf’ tourism market – Haw...

The objective of this paper was to develop a useful framework for estimating demand for tourism in emerging markets. Tourism has become one of the most crucial sectors in a large number of emerging countries. Moreover, the tourism industry in such markets is forecasted to keep increasing in the next decade. Hence, understanding and accurately forecast demand in the industry is essential in orde...

This article reviews ‘event tourism’ as both professional practice and a field of academic study. The origins and evolution of research on event tourism are pinpointed through both chronological and thematic literature reviews. A conceptual model of the core phenomenon and key themes in event tourism studies is provided as a framework for spurring theoretical advancement, identifying research g...

With the rapid development of China’s tourism industry, e-commerce will bring about new opportunity and challenge to tourism. Hotels and travel agencies play very important roles in tourism industry and their level of application of IT prominently shows the management level and information process of whole tourism. This study uses content analysis to evaluate the web sites service of travel age...

As an emerging field of eco-efficiency, tourism eco-efficiency is becoming an important way to measure the sustainable development of tourism. This study calculated and decomposed tourism CO2 emissions in China, explored its evolution and distribution characteristics by using the ratio method of tourism eco-efficiency, and analyzed the influencing factors by adopting a regression model. The res...

The heart of this research is concerned with the level of participation in tourism activities in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The broad objectives of the study are to appraise the tourism potentials of the state vis-à-vis the level of patronage and the influences on the choice of attraction, as well as the constraints to tourism development. The research methods include indept fieldwork, observation, ...

In tourism industry there is strong comprehensive nature, high interrelatedness, long industrial chain, and in particular, featuring integration with industry. As tourism is the industry to be defined according to tourists’ need, tourists consumption of service of food, transportation, accommodations, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment in the travel process will naturally link with a numbe...

Many developing countries have managed to increase their participation in the global economy through development of international tourism. Tourism development is increasingly viewed as an important tool in promoting economic growth, alleviating poverty, and advancing food security. This briefing note aims to review the relationship between tourism and poverty reduction, and to explore how inves...

Planning and implementing strategies and programs to develop tourism has long been a priority issue for policy makers and decision makers. Hence, the interest in quantitative methods for assessing the extent to which possible modifications of some determinants can affect the tourism flows of the destination country. Besides, over the last decades, in Italy as well as in many other destinations ...