The Experiences of Teachers Participating in the Overseas Schools Assignment Exam E. Fathee Aazar, Ph.D. Y. Adib, Ph.D. S. M. Tabaatabaa'ee To gain some insight into the experiences of those teachers who participate in the overseas schools assignment examination, a group of 14 successful participants were interviewed mainly on their motives, activities and concerns prior to the ...

Tourism has become an important way for residents to enjoy a good life, and overseas Chinese architecture is both cultural heritage aesthetic object tourism. This study takes Kaiping Diaolou in Guangdong Province as the research object, questionnaire survey was conducted on 266 tourists identify four options pleasure represent their common determinants. The results of show that: (1) diversity D...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prospects Belfast as a Tourism City with special focus on dark (troubles) tourism. Design/methodology/approach This uses two surveys – one for overseas-based potential tourists and Northern Ireland residents; group tourists; three interviews, MP tour-guide operators, from each side divide. less theoretical than exploratory. Findings Genera...

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...

TO THE EDITOR—We read with great interest the article by Chen et al in Clinical Infectious Diseases on 15 December 2013 [1] and would like to bring some additional points to the readers’ attention. Chen et al report an increase in numbers of medical tourists from developed countries traveling overseas to obtain more affordable medical procedures and highlight the risk of unusual resistant hospi...

This paper fills the gap in literature regarding research of NTO’s overseas office marketing efforts and adopting Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) Traditional Chinese (TC) website as a case study to examine Taiwanese consumers’ satisfactions toward the NTO website. Through an online questionnaire available on STB Taiwan website’s homepage, 257 useable responses were collected. The findings demon...

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 is, in the 21st century, largest industry world and a phenomenon structured on basis of dynamic tentacular articulation. Among forms enshrined phenomenon, so-called “memory tourism” has gained relevance, based colonial heritage whose values are formulated according to reminiscence once shared culture/ heritage: that overseas empires. By gaining new prominence, these postcolonial places ...

The global increase in the elderly population has a direct influence on travel, tourism, and hospitality sector because senior travelers have become major consumers. Therefore, developing deeper understanding of motivations for overseas travel is required. However, presence theoretical practical gaps limits comprehension this demographic market. Thus, research sought to identify underlying dime...