Large, vertically integrated outgoing tour operators dominate the foreign holidays segment of the British and German travel and tourism industry. This industrial structure has emerged and has been sustained by a number of factors, of which the adoption and diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is one of the most significant. As a response, some small outgoing tour o...

The concept of polycentricity has gained significance in discussions on spatial development in Europe in recent years. This paper presents new evidence on polycentric city networks in Central-Eastern Europe based on selected results of the ESPON project POLYCE (Metropolisation and Polycentric Development in Central Europe). The authors discuss existing applications of the concept in the context...

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on working, travel and residential location patterns have attracted much commentary from scholars practitioners interested in future cities regions. Focusing Europe, we discuss how pandemic-fuelled remote working tourism practices increased demand for short-term rentals second homes rural/coastal areas as well a number desirable cities. has accelerated pre-e...

introduction: today the market of medical tourism is growing as one of the competitive and profitable industries in the world. the aim of this study was to determine medical tourist attraction in tehran hospitals. methods: this is a descriptive study which was carried out in 8 hospitals of tehran in 2012. 195 people from the managing boards of these hospitals participated in the study. a questi...

During the early part of the 21st century, an unprecedented change in the status of vector-borne disease in Europe has occurred. Invasive mosquitoes have become widely established across Europe, with subsequent transmission and outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya virus. Malaria has re-emerged in Greece, and West Nile virus has emerged throughout parts of eastern Europe. Tick-borne diseases, suc...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air passenger traffic was dramatic with reductions in numbers that have never been seen before since flying became a mass mode for medium and long distance travel Europe. Air freight transport less affected. This paper sheds light these impacts high temporal spatial resolutions. novelty this analysis compared to other reflections times is it not only looks...

Although congruence between host and pathogen phylogenies has been extensively investigated, the congruence between host and pathogen genetic structures at the within-species level has received little attention. Using an unprecedented and comprehensive collection of associated plant-pathogen samples, we investigated the degree of congruence between the genetic structures across Europe of two ev...

Dr. Brent Stewart’s review for the Center for Independent Expertise (CIE) contains helpful comments for SWFSC scientists to use in writing the results of our study on population structure of harbor seals in Alaska for journal publication. Here we respond not to positive points but rather to points that require clarification or, when we disagree, a rebuttal. Dr. Stewart also gives legal advice a...

A new CIE color appearance model (CIECAM02) has been developed. This paper describes the three major drawbacks of the earlier CIECAM97s model, and shows how the new model performs in these color regions. In addition, both models were tested using available data groups. The results are consistent in that CIECAM02 performed as well as, or better than, CIECAM97s in almost all cases, there being a ...