Following the identification of medical tourism as a growth sector by the Malaysian government in 1998, significant government sector and private-sector investments have been channeled into its development over the past 15 years. This is unfolding within the broader context of social services being devolved to for-profit enterprises and 'market-capable' segments of society becoming sites of int...

today, the concerns and discussion about bio environmental and land usage changes have been considered seriously. so, the land usage for tourism purposes is considered as a basic subject. one of the reasons of land usage change is tourism activities. regarding to bandar anzali situation (coast region), it attracts the tourists attention to buy land in order to build homes and also attracts the ...

Infectious disease threat events (IDTEs) are increasing in frequency worldwide. We analyzed underlying drivers of 116 IDTEs detected in Europe during 2008-2013 by epidemic intelligence at the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control. Seventeen drivers were identified and categorized into 3 groups: globalization and environment, sociodemographic, and public health systems. A combination...

rural tourism is one of the factures of industrial tourism that due to existing natural and culture of the zone villages it can have an important role on the reviving of the villages and by creating now occupations for the villages and by protecting natural, cultural and historical heritage of the zone and finally providing these village with a constant development ,they can a better income too...

This study aims to test the validity of tourism-led growth hypothesis. For this purpose, ten countries with highest tourism income (USA, China, Australia, France, Italy, England, Spain, Germany, Japan, Thailand) are included in analysis covering period 1995-2018. Pedroni cointegration, panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) and Fully Modified (FMOLS) methods utilized by using economic growt...

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...

Tourism, being volatile and situation-specific, is responsive to climate change. A crosssection analysis is conducted on destinations of OECD tourists and a factor and regression analysis on holiday activities of Dutch tourists, to find optimal temperatures at travel destination for different tourists and different tourist activities. Globally, OECD tourists prefer a temperature of 21 ◦C (avera...