Economic development and improvement in living standards, as well as political liberation in China have contributed to the growth in international travel demand. Additionally, the supportive role of the Chinese government in outbound tourism development and China’s inclusion in the World Trade Organisation have and will ensure a continuing ease on travel restrictions, and enhance the opportunit...

With China's economic development and the improvement of people's living standards, the university students' tourism market has gradually become an important segment and showed great vigor. Through the investigation of China’s university students, this article illustrates the status quo on the operation of E-commerce in university students' tourism market, analyzes the problems existing in the ...

A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Technological and Environmental. This paper explores the way in which these key drivers could affect the global tourism industry to the year 2020. An exploratio...

This paper aims to industry a tool for use in decision support tourism, based on GIS applications, so that it explains the sites and tourist services, tourism statistics, and other factors that could affect the development of tourism, with the integration of applications with a variety of assistive technologies such as forms a three-dimensional, and virtual reality, which make scalable applicat...

Tourism is one of the world’s largest economic sectors. Ecotourism is its fastest growing component (United Nations World Tourism Organization 2007), and a promising strategy for sustainable development. Rural Central America and the Caribbean are in need of sustainable development and contain promising ecotourism sites. Despite their empirical importance and potential, tourism and ecotourism a...

Competition between tourism destinations on national, regional and local levels continues to intensify due to the pressure of globalization (Friedman, 2006). Accordingly, destination Management Organizations (dMOs) have to constantly reevaluate and re-engineer the same time, tourism development pressures destination areas through increased resource consumption and, land fragmentation while poli...

Tourism is one of the most important economic sectors in Croatia. The Adriatic coast is a popular travel destination for tourists, especially during the summer months. During their activities, tourists are affected by atmospheric conditions and therefore by weather and climate. Therefore, it is important to have reliable information about thermal conditions as well as their impacts on human bei...

Abstract: Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing fascination about the livelihood of islands with small populations and territories which overwhelmingly rely on tourism as a source of exports. The Small Island Tourism Economies profiled in this paper were colonised, and had depended heavily on financial aid from their former colonists for infrastructure development that has declin...