Cultural heritage tourism, as a typical integration of culture and has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Although some scholars have already explored the influencing mechanism tourists’ behavioral intention cultural destinations, there remains lack research on how social responsibility tourism destinations affects tourist citizenship behavior. Exploring formation behavior at sites ...

In this paper, we propose a personal navigation system for tourism called P-Tour. When a tourist specifies multiple destinations with relative importance and restrictions on arrival/staying time, P-Tour computes the nearly best schedule to visit part of those destinations. In addition to the map-based navigation, P-Tour provides temporal guidance according to the schedule, and automatically mod...

Augmenting the physical environment with virtual georeferenced information is a current research theme in both the Geo-Information and Human-Computer Interaction domains. In this paper we draw from our work on augmentation of urban tourism destinations in order to identify the most important open questions, issues and challenges for the GeoHCI field. Author

Business educators are challenged daily to provide fresh ideas in the classroom and to use new methods to stimulate active learning. One option is to use manufacturing plant tours, company museums, and company visitor centers to supplement traditional classroom activities. This manuscript details this growing type of tourism (known as Consumer Experience Tourism) and identifies the product cate...

This article describes a framework that capitalizes on the large-scale opportunistic mobile sensing approach for tourist behavior analysis. The article describes the use of massive mobile phone GPS location records to study tourist travel behavior, in particular, number of trips made, time spent at destinations, and mode of transportation used. Moreover, this study examined the relationship bet...

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...

in this edge, medical tourism is not a new idea. medical treatment is one of the essential demands of human beings and it requires high quality and intensive care. beside western world, few developing countries are playing key roles as medical tourism destinations. india is one of the leading names among these countries. the purpose of the paper is to find the factors influencing the attractive...

Planning and implementing strategies and programs to develop tourism has long been a priority issue for policy makers and decision makers. Hence, the interest in quantitative methods for assessing the extent to which possible modifications of some determinants can affect the tourism flows of the destination country. Besides, over the last decades, in Italy as well as in many other destinations ...

Th rough their multiple roles in tourism, residents of destination communities interact with tourists at destinations. Th e consequences of these host-guest interactions are bi-directional. Much research has been done on impacts of host-guest interactions on the local community. On the other hand, few studies have evaluated how tourists' on-site behaviour and experiences are aff ected by such i...