International tourism is an important source of service exports to Spain and its regions, particularly the Balearic Islands. Tourism is the major industry in the Balearic Islands, accounting for about 85% of GDP (see Riera, 2003). This paper examines the time series properties of international tourism demand to the Balearic Islands. The data set comprises monthly figures from two leading touris...

To guarantee sustainable international tourism market growth, challenges for international tourism advertisements (ITAs) include how and by whom they are made. Different to traditional ITAs, a new type of ITA has been created by the international tourists themselves; it contains not only pictures but also their own tour stories, and it is distributed via social media (e.g., Youtube.com). Howeve...

Peru is a South American country that is divided into two parts by the Andes Mountains. The rich historical, cultural and geographic diversity has led to the inclusion of ten Peruvian sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. For the potential negative impacts of mass tourism on the environment, and hence on future international tourism demand, to be managed appropriately require modelling growth ...

In literature, analyses can be found of the competitiveness of international tourist destinations, based on tourist satisfaction with different attributes. However, most of these analyses do not use one single measure to make a global assessment, which makes it difficult to compare destinations. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, some alternatives that can be used as a synthetic index of ...

This paper compares the impacts of SARS and human deaths arising from Avian Flu on international tourist arrivals to Asia. The effects of SARS and human deaths from Avian Flu will be compared directly according to human deaths. The nature of the short run and long run relationship is examined empirically by estimating a static line fixed effect model and a difference transformation dynamic mode...

This paper examines the existence of long-run relationships between East Asian economic integration and tourism exports for nine selected ASEAN States for the period 1996-2007. I employ tourist arrivals data as a proxy for tourism exports and trade ratios as a proxy for the economic integration. Using Johansen’s Fisher panel cointegration test, the findings show that tourist arrivals and trade ...

the purpose of this study is to develop a brand equity model for isfahan as a tourism destination. the statistical population of this study consists of the inbound tourists who have traveled to isfahan in november 2013. a sample of 200 tourists has been selected from this population. a self-administrated questionnaire has been used for collecting the research data. in order to analyze the resea...

For a long time basic accommodation capacities represented the dominant type of accommodation in tourist offer, while at the same time complementary accommodation capacities were neglected. However, recently there has been a growing interest for complementary, substitute types of tourist accommodation, both in the Republic of Croatia and in Dubrovnik, where since 2000 a significant increase of ...

1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (FR), Italy; E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science (LA...

The tourist trip design problem (TTDP) refers to a route-planning problem for tourists interested in visiting multiple points of interest (POIs). TTDP solvers derive daily tourist tours, i.e., ordered visits to POIs, which respect tourist constraints and POIs attributes. The main objective of the problem discussed is to select POIs that match tourist preferences, thereby maximizing tourist sati...