Tourism has been an increasingly important factor in global economy, society and environment, accounting for a significant share of GDP and labor force. Policy and research on tourism traditionally rely on surveys and economic datasets, which are based on small samples and depict tourism dynamics at low spatial and temporal granularity. Anonymous call detail records (CDRs) are a novel source of...

contemporary architecture by symbolic and visual design creates an image in the minds of tourists so that these images are then converted to urban brands. combining symbolic monuments and modern buildings in the world today is a promising development of cities in many municipalities, municipalities and government agencies to freely and without regard to the needs of their local employs all the ...

According to the principle of science, system, pertinency and hierarchy, combining the availability of the evaluation data, this paper establishes the urban competitiveness evaluation system, analyzes the tourism competitiveness of 18 regions in Henan province with the method of factor analysis and puts forward the related suggestions for improving the competitiveness.

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

Nowadays several areas of application need a precise 3D cartographic model, specially in the urban domain: telecommunications, urbanism, tourism and other ludicrous applications. The analysis of aerial stereoscopic photos provides a fast method to obtain a faithful relief of the observed scene, including its superstructures. This work presents the Navegador3D developed by NPDI/UFMG, ETIS/ENSEA ...

tourism industry is emerging as a new era, one of the main pillars of the economy, the business world. many planners and policy makers in the development of the tourism industry as the main pillars of sustainable development are mentioned. in this direction, this research inspired by these changes and therefore social indicators such as social capital, sense of place, and so on programming usin...

T HERE ARE VARIOUS FRAMEWORKS and approaches used in the analysis of a company’s strategic position. One of the most straightforward is the SWOT analysis, SWOT being an acronym for “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats”. The occasions to investigate empirically the use of such a tool are comparatively rare. This article presents the findings of one such opportunity, being based on t...

The success of tourism development heavily depends on residents’ support. Broader literature suggests sense of place and social capital are important precedents of residents’ attitudes and behavior. However, limited attention has been paid to this topic in tourism, especially in Iran. Therefore, the aim of this research is to examine the relationship between sense of place, social capital and r...

Contemporary architecture by symbolic and visual design creates an image in the minds of tourists so that these images are then converted to urban brands. Combining symbolic monuments and modern buildings in the world today is a promising development of cities in many municipalities, municipalities and government agencies to freely and without regard to the needs of their local employs all the ...