Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify development strategies for Business Tourism in territories where this segment is not always given due consideration, especially at the level of local and regional development policies. Design – The paper discusses the concepts of Business Tourism and analyses the characteristics of a delimited territory in the Central Region of Portugal that en...

The tourism in Miaoli has been in great development recently. The wonderful scenery and other potential conditions have sufficient incentives to attract tourists. Though there is such a huge tourist economic market, most tourist service providers are unfortunately not able to integrate the information technology and the tourist services effectively. Therefore, we guide the tourism industry “Cas...

This paper develops a new model which exposes the epistemological characteristics of tourism studies. Various claims and frameworks have been proposed with regard to the epistemology of tourism, mainly centering around the discipline/field debate. A critical review of these is undertaken and the idea that tourism studies is a discipline is rejected. It is proposed that tourism be conceptualized...

Examples of niche tourism have emerged in parallel to the growing importance food destination management and marketing. this include mushroom tourism, tea or udon among others. This study analyzes one specialist forms tourism: dairy tourism. Dairy is leisure tourist practice that leads discovery production, transformation, commercialization processes milk derivatives. Specifically, objective re...

Who ought to receive what? An instrument to assess a community's preferred strategy for allocating leisure service resources Stephanie T. West a & John L. Crompton b a Department of Health, Leisure and Exercise Science, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA b Department of Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA Published onlin...

This research is the first attempt of a carbon emission investigation of tourism-based farms. A total of 36 cases were investigated. The result reveals that each tourist returns an average revenue of 28.6 USD and generates an average 10.9 kg-CO2eq per visit of carbon emissions. The average carbon emission density for each land area is 8.2 t/ha·year and is 245 kg/m2·year for each floor area. It ...

The tourism industry uses Internet technologies extensively, despite some significant shortcomings. The shortcomings of the current Internet technologies include information overload, difficulty in information finding and extraction, as well as interpretation of the information between different resources. The semantic web, as the next generation web, uses background knowledge about the meaning...