To encourage the sustainability of rural tourism and to achieve success in the tourist industry, an understanding of the factors by which tourists are motivated to visit rural areas is required. This study aims to measure factors affecting rural tourists’ satisfaction in relation to different aspects of a destination and to increase the likelihood of revisitation and recommendation. This study ...

PurposeHotel Industry is one of the most substantial factors for Tourism Industry. It could provide the necessary substructures for Tourism. Therefore the growth in Tourism industry depends on growth in Hotel industry. Hotel industry had a major growth in recent years in Iran; therefore the purpose of this paper is to explore the customer satisfaction in hotel industry. This paper aims to ident...

[Abstract] Wireless access with handheld devices is a promising addition to the WWW and traditional electronic business. Handheld devices provide convenience, portable access, and large amounts of information to travelers. Tourism presents considerable potential for the use of new mobile technologies; however, limited research exists on mobile users’ perspectives with regard to satisfaction tow...

The paper constructs a dynamic general equilibrium model for a small economy that specializes in tourism to explore the long term effects of environmental and tourism policies. The model assumes that tourists obtain satisfaction from private services provided by tourism firms, goods and services provided by the public sector and environmental quality. Satisfaction from private services depends ...

China tourism industry is investing to develop a “Golden Tourism Project”. One of the main objectives of this project is to improve web-based tourism online service quality and implement tourism e-commerce. In order to develop successfully the project it is necessary to investigate who are main tourism website users, what are their requirements for online tourism services and how do they assess...

Logistics service performance through information technology has become an increasingly important issue for tourism. A conceptual model with six hypotheses was developed to depict the relationships amongst tourism suppliers’ service quality, logistics service performance, perceived service value, tourists’ satisfaction and loyalty. Structural Equation Modeling was employed to analyze 425 respon...

e-tourism has evolved as a mainstay business for tourist service providers. it plays an integral role in the dissemination of information and influencing consumer’s preferences and satisfaction. the purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions of service quality perceptions of consumers in e-tourism in the indian context. it also aims to understand the relative impact of these service qu...

A new statistical profile monitoring technique to monitor and detect changes in logistic profiles with an application in the tourism industry is presented in this paper. In the statistical process control literature, profile is usually referred to as a relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables. In the tourism case study presented in this paper, time is consi...

In order to improve tourist satisfaction and promote the coordinated development of tourism and urban, this paper investigates an urban transportation network problem for tourism via lane reservation strategy. The focus of the problem is to select some lanes from the existing transportation infrastructure and convert them to reserved lanes for tourism so that tourist satisfaction can be ensured...

— The web-based technologies have become a strategic necessity for tourism organizations. Through switching to online services, tourism organizations are achieving better positions in the digital-based competitive market. The Chinese tourism industry is investing in the development of a ‘Golden Tourism Project’ which includes tourism E-commerce website development and evaluation as one of main ...