Europe’s cities and towns contain a rich cultural heritage. Yet, maintaining this heritage presents many challenges, including dealing with the adverse environmental and social impacts of mass tourism. Demands from urban tourism alike are high and growing, hence the pressures and problems associated with the management of the sector have to be systematically tackled by all parties concerned. Pu...

Wellness tourism has become an emerging market segment directed not only for those who pursue solely thermal treatments but also for those seeking illness prevention, physical improvement and spiritual balance or even for those eager of cultural and relaxation programs. In this sense, wellness tourism has become more complex and creative, demanding high quality equipments and infrastructures, p...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the efficient factors that potentially lead to the barriers of developing medical tourism in South Korea. METHODS To explore the current medical tourism trend, a qualitative procedure was adopted. Besides analyzing the current situation of medical tourism in Korea through a systematic searching on the available information and publications, in-depth-in...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...

Following the identification of medical tourism as a growth sector by the Malaysian government in 1998, significant government sector and private-sector investments have been channeled into its development over the past 15 years. This is unfolding within the broader context of social services being devolved to for-profit enterprises and 'market-capable' segments of society becoming sites of int...

BACKGROUND In this edge, medical tourism is not a new idea. Medical treatment is one of the essential demands of human beings and it requires high quality and intensive care. Beside western world, few developing countries are playing key roles as medical tourism destinations. India is one of the leading names among these countries. The purpose of the paper is to find the factors influencing the...

Tourism based on interactions with wildlife is increasing in popularity across the world. A conceptual framework is presented which begins to classify the major components of wildlife tourism/recreation and indicates the roles of and the relationship between these components. It is suggested that the values of conservation, animal welfare, visitor satisfaction, and pro"tability are often in con...

Tourism service providers are increasingly under pressure to offer products of greater complexity and diversity to meet the everchanging demands of travellers. In this paper we discuss how the online hotel search can be streamlined and search costs reduced with the use of a Semantic Web-based travel portal. We will describe a prototypical implementation of the required technological infrastruct...

This paper discusses the theoretical framework and the process-oriented model guiding the introduction of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. The Programme in TEL (PiTEL) evolved from the previous ‘Programme for the development of Resources in ICT Education’ that promoted the acquisition of a range of competences in use of ICT applications, espec...