introduction access to tourism destinations and ranking of them are the main aspects of tourism development planning. although the analysis network process (anp) is based on analysis hierarchy process (ahp) but network structure or feedback is dominated in decision making of the options. this article tries to respond to following questions in order to prove the main goal of the research as sele...

In recent years, healthy tourism has been attracting more consumers. Lately, many people have moved towards a healthy lifestyle and this has major implications on tourism. More and more people decided to choose destinations that can provide wellness and medical facilities. Healthy tourism became a good alternative to conventional tourism. People who want to improve their health and wellbeing ch...

Recent developments in Virtual Reality (VR) technology present a tremendous opportunity for the tourism industry. This research aims to better understand how the VR experience may influence travel decision making by investigating spatial presence in VR environments and its impact on attitudes toward tourism destinations. Based on a study involving virtual walkthrough of tourism destinations wit...

Competition between tourism destinations on national, regional and local levels continues to intensify due to the pressure of globalization (Friedman, 2006). Accordingly, destination Management Organizations (dMOs) have to constantly reevaluate and re-engineer the same time, tourism development pressures destination areas through increased resource consumption and, land fragmentation while poli...

independently produced elements which effectively constitute tourists’ total experience of the destination. However, due to their vulnerability, deficient marketing and management functions, and dependence upon distribution channel partners they also tend to jeopardise the benefits of tourism activity for destinations and host communities. Nevertheless, the prosperity of destinations and SMTEs ...

Environmental management at nature-based tourism destinations includes a private and a public component. The former refers to voluntary environmental protection activities carried out by individual (and groups of) tourism operators. These activities are motivated by the dependence of the product provided by the tourism industry on the quality of the natural environment. Public sector management...

1. introduction monitoring the evolution of tourism life cycle in iran is relatively new; and despite of the fact that this approach can be a useful framework for understanding the relationships among the activities of tourism destinations, limited methods and approaches are introduced. therefore, this research introduces a new approach to monitoring and evaluating tourism activities in tourism...

This chapter looks to analyse new paradigms in the relationship between public and private organisations towards tourism destinations. It proposes new approaches for increased performance both at the competitive and the organisational level. Based on the literature review, this chapter suggests new organisational forms of being and interaction directed at increased customer needs and growing co...

Information technology (IT) underpinning the information society has brought with it a number of changes which have far reaching consequences for business. One such change is the sharing of information between organisations and subsequent altered processes within and between those organisations. But to what extent is co-opetition or collaboration around IT (c-commerce) occurring amongst small a...

The problem of destination accessibility is a vital concern in the sustainable tourism development in the emerging regions due to the increasing numbers of tourism business growth in the recent times. Tourism is one of the potential foreign exchange earning sectors, which place sustainability as one of the main success metrics for benchmarking the industry’s overall development. On the other ha...