Brooks, David J.; Haynes, Richard W. 2001. Recreation and tourism in South Central Alaska: synthesis of recent trends and prospects. General Technical Report GTR-PNW-XXX. Portland, OR. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. XX p. Tourism has been the fastest-growing component of Alaska's economy for the past decade and is an important export sector for the regional economy. Opportuniti...

Advanced or Addicted? Exploring the Relationship of Recreation Specialization to Flow Experiences and Online Game Addiction Tsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu a , David Scott b & Chun-Chieh Yang c a Department of Tourism, Recreation and Leisure Studies , National Dong Hwa University , Hualien , Taiwan , ROC b Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences , Texas A&M University , College Station , TX...

GIS can be used in tourism as a decision supporting tool for sustainable tourism planning, impact assessment, visitor flow management, and tourism site selection. Therefore, the potential for GIS applications in tourism is significant. The purpose of the study was fixed to explore the potential of using GIS for planning resources pertinent to ecotourism development. The study investigated a cas...

Remote sensing; GIS; Tourism; Land cover classification Abstract The Jesenı́ky Mountains tourism in Czech Republic is unique for its floristic richness. This is caused mainly by the altitude division and polymorphism of the landscape, climate and soil structure. This study assesses the impacts of tourism on the land cover in the Jesenı́ky Mountain region by comparing multi-temporal Landsat imager...

He co-authored a text on Distance Education. His current research interests include entrepreneurship, the experience economy, nature tourism, and human resource management issues in the service industries.

A study was undertaken to establish how visiting tourists to Samoa perceived free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) and their management, additionally some factors that influence their perceptions were assessed. Questionnaires were administered to 281 tourists across Samoa over 5 weeks. Free-roaming dogs were seen by 98.2% (n = 269/274) of respondents, with 64.9% (n = 137/211) reporting that thei...

the goal of this research is the evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on khorasan razavi’s sports tourism development. the research statistical population include of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism as 120 persons. this research is past-event descriptive that had been performed based on field method. sampling had been performed as catego...

The goal of this research is the evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on Khorasan Razavi’s sports tourism development. The research statistical population include of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism as 120 persons. This research is past-event descriptive that had been performed based on field method. Sampling had been performed as ...