As an emerging field of eco-efficiency, tourism eco-efficiency is becoming an important way to measure the sustainable development of tourism. This study calculated and decomposed tourism CO2 emissions in China, explored its evolution and distribution characteristics by using the ratio method of tourism eco-efficiency, and analyzed the influencing factors by adopting a regression model. The res...

BACKGROUND The Caribbean has the highest prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS outside sub-Saharan Africa, and a broad literature suggests an ecological association between tourism areas and sexual vulnerability. Tourism employees have been shown to engage in high rates of sexual risk behaviours. Nevertheless, no large-scale or sustained HIV prevention interventions have been conducted within the touris...

The increasing competition among territories forces the tourism industry to develop new marketing strategies capable of spreading the touristic potentiality of the territory, in order to attract more touristic flows (Dwyer et al., 2009; Zhang et al., 2009; Pantano & Naccarato, 2010). Form a tourists point of view, the industry tries to develop the offer which best fits consumers’ needs, whereas...

This report examines the notion that tourism can help deliver peace and prosperity to developing countries by examining relationships among tourism, development, and conflict in three countries: Kenya, Nigeria, and India. The case studies were commissioned as part of the 2008 Travelers’ Philanthropy Conference held in Arusha, Tanzania. The three-day conference was attended by 225 delegates from...

Cross-domain Beginner 0.5 hour In 2017 the EMBL-EBI Training Programme is celebrating 10 amazing years of providing onsite, offsite and online training in bioinformatics. To help celebrate this anniversary, we designed a treasure hunt to give you a taster of the free resources and (sometimes quirky) data that EMBL-EBI has on offer. This year also happened to be the UN year for “Sustainable tour...

A conflict between the preservation of the character of existing historic towns and “change” has formed the central argument for conservation. More recently, heritage has superseded conservation, where marketing of heritage as a product according to the demands of the consumer, mainly tourists, has resulted in the commercialisation of heritage over conservation values. Today, the symbiosis of b...

In China, tourism is being actively developed and is evolving towards a more openeconomy form. Coastal tourism is encouraged but has come into conflict with other uses and sustainable development is an issue. Dachangshan Dao, the second largest island in the Changshan island group in Liaoning Province, off the Yellow Sea, provides an opportunity to assess one form of island tourism under develo...

Environmental sustainability is a key concept which EU environmental policy is endeavouring to diffuse throughout the relevant policy domains of member states. This includes tourism policy, which is a key activity of southern member states but which has often not been sustainable. Beginning with an analysis of how the sustainability concept has found resonance with the tourism policies of Italy...