The large amount of money spent and the great number of travelers depicts the importance of tourism. Tourists travel to and from all areas around both hemispheres searching for a variety of experiences. Tourism industry has developed positively and has increased in different ways, regarding its type or scale. Therefore, tourists and tourism industry develop accordingly and frequently very fast,...

The Bristol Bay region of southwestern Alaska is sparsely inhabited, but richly endowed in resources that could support a major tourism industry. Despite an abundance of natural and cultural attractions and a clear need for economic diversification, the tourism industry is still largely undeveloped. Several factors account for this unfulfilled opportunity, including high travel costs, lack of v...

The current highly fragmented and multitude of information systems supporting tourism greatly increases the tourist’s search costs. A more cohesive and integrated approach should enhance the tourist’s experience in the three phases of tourism: planning, touring, and reminiscing. The emergence of u-commerce, the ultimate form of commerce, is the backdrop to identifying a series of information pr...

BACKGROUND Client safety is a major risk management concern for the commercial adventure tourism sector in New Zealand. This study built on previous exploratory analyses of New Zealand adventure tourism safety, including industry surveys conducted by these authors in 1999 and 2003. The aims of the study were to provide a continuation of injury monitoring across the sector through data collected...

John Tribe University of Surrey, UK John Tribe is Professor of Tourism at the University of Surrey (Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Email ). He has authored books on philosophy, strategy, economics, education, research and environmental management and his research concentrates on epistemology, education, and sustainability. He is Editor-in-Chief of Annals and Co-Chair o...

Contribution of tourism development to protected area management: local stakeholder perspectives Jianying Xu a , Yihe Lü b , Liding Chen b & Yang Liu b a College of Resource, Environment and Tourism , Capital Normal University , Beijing, China b State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for EcoEnvironmental of Science , Chinese Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 2871, Beij...

independently produced elements which effectively constitute tourists’ total experience of the destination. However, due to their vulnerability, deficient marketing and management functions, and dependence upon distribution channel partners they also tend to jeopardise the benefits of tourism activity for destinations and host communities. Nevertheless, the prosperity of destinations and SMTEs ...

since 1970, technology innovations transformed radically the tourism processes and strategies, essentially with the Internet apparition. Nowadays, E-Tourism systems are well implanted into the Internet, with a lot of offers and online possibilities (reservations, virtual visit, etc.). Nevertheless, with the great evolution of the Internet, users’ needs and attends changed too, they are now look...

Insight into tourist travel behaviors is crucial for managers engaged in strategic planning and decision making to create a sustainable tourism industry. However, they continue to face significant challenges in fully capturing and understanding the behavior of international tourists. The challenges are primarily due to the inefficient data collection approaches currently in use. In this paper, ...