Tourism industry is regarded as the star in the 21st century, the reasons are not only creating the opportunities for employment, but also earning foreign exchange with significant benefits. Moreover, tourism industry plays an important role on the local economical society developement . According to Tourism Bureau with the statistical data, all the employees of the tourist hotels in Taipei cit...

Tourism is an important and growing industry in Singapore. Studies on Singapore cultural tourism have generally focused on three major sites: Chinatown, Little India and the Malay Village. The Haw Par Villa tourist site has not been examined in recent years. The case study of Haw Par Villa offered here demonstrates how changing times in Singapore have affected the popularity of tourist sites in...

Background and Objectives: Medical Tourism Tourism is emerging as a fast growing healthcare industry with the potential to open a new economic opportunity for developing countries. Iran has been the treatment destination of many medical tourists from Middle Eastern countries for many years, yet this field of services remains underdeveloped. The best judges for the challenges ...

General background is provided on the potential of tourism growth to contribute to economic development, paying particular attention to the experience of Sri Lanka. An overview of trends in inbound tourism to Sri Lanka is presented with particular consideration being given to its number of inbound tourist arrivals. Sri Lanka’s comparative position in international tourism markets, the compositi...

The current resurgence of interest in Istanbul's Ottoman past, and its transformation into a key site of political struggles, cannot be divorced from transnational trends. In the world of late capitalism that we experience today, large metropolises figure prominently as core settings for the display and promotion of 'cultural heritage' as a marketable commodity. The symbolic and economic comodi...