The internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically changed how citizens and business interact with their government. Almost all the government website supply the local tourism information since the tourism is becoming increasingly important for local economic development. This paper is an attempt to compare the current development of the e-g...

Information technology is transforming travel behaviors and business in the hospitality and tourism industry by making all the actors more connected and creating " a smart, connected business " , i.e., " intelligently optimized for a specific need ". This is achieved by leveraging the information and communication infrastructure, and a range of new mobile and wearable user's devices. All of the...

The Maldives, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), has seen a rapid development of its tourism industry over the last 35 years with visitor numbers rising from 1062 visitors per year in 1972 through to over 600,000 today. Both in popular conception and reality the Maldives relies on its marine life and beaches to sustain a tourism industry that contributes over 30% of total GDP. However, the...

The travel and tourism sector has emerged as one of the most important sectors for developing as well as developed countries. Tourism incorporates many of the features of the information society such as globalization, mobility and information richness. People from all nations, social rank, professions are potential tourists. Tourism links a worldwide supplier community with consumers, equally d...

Through the minority tourism, display platform status and problems of research, we propose a technique based on multi-source data show, this paper based on this technical design of the entire multi-source data application platform overall framework, database, environment and interface able to empty earth integrated perspective view showing the entire ethnic tourism, the multi-source data displa...

China tourism industry is investing to develop a “Golden Tourism Project”. One of the main objectives of this project is to improve web-based tourism online service quality and implement tourism e-commerce. In order to develop successfully the project it is necessary to investigate who are main tourism website users, what are their requirements for online tourism services and how do they assess...

For many alpine areas in Switzerland, winter tourism is the most important source of income, and snow-reliability is one of the key elements of the offers made by tourism in the Alps. 85% of Switzerland's current ski resorts can be designated as snow-reliable. If climate change occurs, the level of snow-reliability will rise from 1200 m up to 1800 m over the next few decades. Only 44% of the sk...

UDC: 338.48-44(1-21)(680) Already an enormous global industry, tourism seems to offer the quickest route to economic and social development of emerging nations. This has been no different for South Africa given the growing interest of international travellers to visit the country and its cities. Tourism is of significant importance to the South African economy as it contributes almost 7.4% to G...

The need to develop the required human resources in the tourism industry has become imperative as a consequence of rapidly changing technology and dynamic changes in the international tourism market. And in this regard the role and commitment of the top management towards developing the human resources cannot be undermined. A study has been conducted to assess the perception of the top manageme...

Chen Yang (Writer) (Last Name) (First Name) (Initial) (Title) Recent Trends of Hospitality and Tourism Research Literature on China: A Content Analysis Hospitality & Tourism Dr. Charles J. Metelka March, 2001 53 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No of pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) As tourism planning,...