Tourism in Africa is growing at a faster rate than other regions of the world, and consumers increasingly access tourism bureau websites to gather information about travel destinations. The purpose of this study is to evaluate tourism bureau websites for 20 major cities and 30 countries in Africa on six dimensions: Convenience, Cost, Choice, Customer Service, Customization and Coordination. Sig...

Search engines have become an important channel for destination marketing organizations (DMOs) to communicate and promote their products. This study examine the visibility of the websites of the 50 US state tourism offices. Specifically, website visibility is measured by their rankings among other search results in Google based upon a number of most frequently used queries. By comparing website...

Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

Intermediate cities which also called medium size cities have an important role in the process of globalization. It is argued that, in some cases this type of cities may be depopulated or in otherwise may be transformed as the periphery of metropolitans, so that the personal identity of the city and its local cultural heritage could suffer from its neighbor metropolitan. Over the last decades, ...

Planning and developing urban tourism destinations must encompass landscape optimization to achieve healthy urban ecosystems, as well as for evolution sustainability. This study explored sustainable landscape planning by examining the optimization of landscape spatial distribution in an urban tourism destination–Nanjing, China—using an integrated approach that included remote sensing (RS), geog...

Nowadays, the tourism industry accounts for approximately 10% of the global GDP, while it only contributes 3% of the economy in Iran. Since the pressure of US sanctions increases day after day on the Iranian economy, the necessity of paying attention to this industry as a source of foreign currency is felt more than ever. The purpose of this research is to analyze the reviews of users of social...

an urban regeneration project is defined as a series of actions determined to accomplish urban regeneration aims that lead to reduce the problems of an area via improving the socioeconomic, physical and environmental conditions. today, urban regeneration is one of key principles in act of planning and it is beyond the urban renewal, urban redevelopment or urban rehabilitation processes because ...