BACKGROUND Medical tourism - travel across international borders for health care - appears to be growing globally, with patients from high-income nations increasingly visiting low- and middle-income countries to access such services. This paper analyses Australian television and newspaper news and current affairs coverage to examine how medical tourism and these destinations for the practice ar...

Urbanization challenges regional sustainable development, but a slight expansion mechanism was revealed in a plateau city. We have integrated the urban expansion process and analyzed its determinants in Lhasa (Tibet), and we provide insightful suggestions for urban management and planning for Lhasa. The full continuum of the urban expansion process has been captured using time-series of high-re...

Recently, visualization of urban scenes attracts attention from the perspective of tourism and cultural city activation. Considering the popularity of the digital still cameras, a more impressive form of urban scenes, which allows the user to view the scenes from connected various points, is required. The still images can be connected in three dimensional space relatively. By compensating some ...

introduction internationally, the most widely used term to describe the phenomenon of people owning or utilizing some sort of dwelling for recreational and secondary purposes is a second home. throughout the world, many different terms are used to describe second home. however, even if differences in defining the phenomenon do occur, the similarities between the terms and definitions are obviou...

The amount of marine debris in the environment is increasing worldwide, which results in an array of negative effects to biota. This study provides the first account of macrodebris on the beach and microplastics in the sediment (shoreline and infralittoral) in relation to tourism activities in Slovenia. The study assessed the quality and quantity of macrodebris and the quality, size and quantit...

In comprehensive urban development plan, a vision of Tehran has been considered as a world city.Tehran is also considered the regional medical center in the world of Islam in the comprehensive scientific map ofIran. In the era of globalization, medical tourism is a growing market in developing countries and has become one offields of competition in regional development. According to the importa...