This study examines what factors affects tourists’ intention to use tourism websites designed by local governments to increase the exposure of local tourism. The study relies on the Technology Acceptance Model to assess the advantages and disadvantages of a specific tourism website and to examine the reasons that motivate tourists to use online tourism websites for travel information searches. ...

Todays, sustainable development is one of the principles which are considered by scholars. This means that the future of humanity is very important to maintain living standards, so that it can no longer operate as before and use the human environment. Therefore the effects of tourism should be studied perfectly to minimize its threat and maximize opportunities and strength points and this wou...

The internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically changed how citizens and business interact with their government. Almost all the government website supply the local tourism information since the tourism is becoming increasingly important for local economic development. This paper is an attempt to compare the current development of the e-g...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Prefecture-level administrative units Spatial spillover effect Urban economic growth Urban economic convergence The present study investigates the effect of tourism and its spatial correlation on urban economic growth. The study examines 272 prefecture-level administrative units between 2002 and 2011 in China as the sample and a β convergence model as the frame. ...

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 utilization of Information Technology (IT) is spreading in tourism industry with explosive growth of Internet, Social Network Service (SNS) through smart phone applications. Especially, since intensive information has high value on tourism area, IT is becoming a crucial factor in the tourism industry. The smart tourism is explained as an holistic approach that provide tour information, serv...