The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a need for better tourism information on a portable media like a PDA or mobile phone. The market segment addressed in this market research was boat tourists in the Baltic Sea Region. Two parallel surveys were carried out; a quantitative survey with a sample of 665 respondents and a qualitative survey with 30 respondents. The results in...

this study determined the situation of rural tourism and agro-tourism in tehran province as well as the expected economic impacts of agro-tourism development on it. in this research, we used documental research method and field research based on questionnaires and face-to-face interview. it was found out that despite different tourist attractions in rural areas of tehran province, tourist arriv...

Logistics service performance through information technology has become an increasingly important issue for tourism. A conceptual model with six hypotheses was developed to depict the relationships amongst tourism suppliers’ service quality, logistics service performance, perceived service value, tourists’ satisfaction and loyalty. Structural Equation Modeling was employed to analyze 425 respon...

Tourism in Perú has become very important, since there is a growing number of tourists arriving each year. This paper focus in understand what do speakingenglish tourists have in consideration when they visit Perú. We obtained all the tweets published in english during the year 2016, filtered by touristic places visited. In total, more than 192 thousand tweets were collected. We performed diffe...

The impact of socio-demographics on tourist behavior – analyzing segments of cultural tourists visiting Coimbra

Introduction: It is predicted that tourism will be the most profitable industry in the world in 2020. The current study aimed to evaluate the influence of advertising on attracting foreign medical tourists based on the marketing mix model. Methods: In this descriptive study, participants (n=136) completed a standard questionnaire containing items on demog...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism is international travel with the intention of receiving medical care. Medical tourists travel for many reasons, including cost savings, limited domestic access to specific treatments, and interest in accessing unproven interventions. Medical tourism poses new health and safety risks to patients, including dangers associated with travel following surgery, difficulty as...

According to the Environmental Bubble Theory, tourists perform a series of strategies in order to remain anchored to their residential spots. The environmental bubble is constituted by a sort of social pellicule able to immunize tourists from the identity/cultural attacks which the visit to a foreign country implies. Such a pellicule is activated by the tourists themselves as they decide to tra...

BACKGROUND Patients engage in medical tourism when they privately obtain a medical care abroad. Previous research shows that many medical tourists travel abroad with friends and family members who provide support and assistance. Meanwhile, very little is known about this important stakeholder group, referred to here as caregiver-companions. In this article we examine the challenges that can be ...