People’s behavior on online social networks, which store geo-tagged information showing where people were or are at the moment, can provide information about their offline life as well. In this paper we present one possible research direction that can be taken using Flickr dataset of publicly available geo-tagged media objects (e.g., photographs, videos). Namely, our focus is on investigating a...

Our aim is to give an account of the process carried out in the compilation of a multilingual lexicon of rural tourism terms. This lexicon provides equivalents of Spanish local culturally-loaded terms in English, French and Portuguese, the languages spoken by the vast majority of visitors to Castile and Leon. This tool will contribute to improve the communication in the catering industry in thi...

Trying to understand what comprises and infl uences visitor satisfaction is one of the most relevant areas of research for the tourism sector. Th e aim of this study is to analyse which factors infl uence overall satisfaction with visitors to the museum, with particular interest in national origin, feelings, and motivations. Th e research is based on 1,038 questionnaires collected from June to ...

This paper aims to probe international tourists' intention to revisit Iran using survey research method. Asian and European tourists constitute the research's statistical population. The data needed were collected from 200 respondents chosen on the basis of convenience sampling method. The data analysis revealed no difference between tourists’ economic-social attributes and their propensity to ...

Healthcare facilities are often complex and overwhelming for visitors, and wayfinding in healthcare facilities can be challenging. As there is an increasing number of global citizens who travel to seek medical care in another country, it is critical to make wayfinding easy for visitors who are not familiar with the language in a foreign country. Among many wayfinding aids, symbols are helpful f...