This paper proposes a new integrated model based on SWOT and extended PIvot Pairwise RElative Criteria Importance Assessment (PIPRECIA) that offers systematic approach to strategic planning in tourism. The applicability of the proposed is demonstrated through case study defining main determinants tourism development Serbia. result emphasizes strategy Improving organization, management, enhancem...

As an important measure of rural development, tourism plays essential role in revitalization. Located the birthplace founder Confucian School, Nishan Town has significant advantages cultural tourism. In recent years, developed rapidly and been selected as one top 100 characteristic towns country 2020. Although development many advantages, it also faces severe challenges. Based on field investig...

Policy makers and tourism developers must understand visitors’ mobility behavior and how they consume space and tourism resources in order to set up sustainable cultural tourism destinations. With this in mind, it should also be pointed out that the mobility patterns of tourists in urban destinations are mainly located in the city center (spatial centrality), the analysis of which enables us to...

Understanding the changes in gross primary production (GPP), which is the total carbon fixation by terrestrial ecosystems through vegetation photosynthesis, due to land use conversion in a tourism city is important for carbon cycle studies. Satellite data from Landsat 5, Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 and meteorological data are used to calculate annual GPP for 1995, 2003 and 2014, respectively, using...

SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis is a commonly used and an important technique for analyzing internal and external environments in order to provide a systematic approach and support for a decision making. SWOT is criticized mostly for considering only qualitative examination of environmental factors, no priority for various factors and strategies, and no vaguenes...

This note clarifies two important issues related to ocean observations of sea-surface height (SSH) by SWOT. The analysis presented here is intended to supplement the discussion in the SWOT science requirements document, the onboard processing document, and the mission performance and error budget document. The first issue is the question of how the raw SWOT data will be filtered by the onboard ...

During the last two decades, tourism policies in Spain have had as a priority objective the diversification and differentiation of tourist destinations, together with the improvement of service and infrastructure quality levels as the best strategies to guarantee the competitiveness of tourism activity. Although Spain has managed to maintain its leadership as a sun and sand tourist destination,...