background: the need for better healthcare has grown significantly in recent years. in addition, the rising healthcare costs in the u.s. and in many european countries have forced many patients to seek medical treatment abroad, which has created the demand for medical tourism. with little yet known as to the perception of a medical tourist's destination selection, this study aims to explore med...

Identifying information sources influential to travel decisions helps tourism planners strategically utilize resources to improve marketing efforts and create a strong destination image. An on-line survey (N=973) on destination brand image research was developed and implemented. The study examined image perceptions of Austria and what level of influence various information sources have on desti...

This research addresses the general topic of “keeping found things found” by investigating difficulties people encounter when revisiting webpages. The overall aim of the research is to design, develop and evaluate a web history tool that addresses these difficulties. An empirical study has been conducted. Participants recorded their web navigation for three months using a Firefox add-on. Each p...

Mega shopping malls technology-enabled services influence tourists behavior as Jumbo offer a broader range of products and with innovative features that impacts revisit intentions. This study’s novelty is the research on mega literature lacs it. Travel, leisure, tourism sectors have gained balanced attention, scholars contributed academic perspectives. in modern cities attract help foster econo...

The advancements of GPS and GIS technologies provide new opportunities for investigating vehicle trip generation and destination choice at the microscopic level. This research models how land use and road network structure influence non-work, non-home vehicle trip generation and non-work destination choice in the context of trip chains, using the in-vehicle GPS travel data in the Minneapolis-St...