A friend of mine This paper is dedicated to the memory of Franco Montagna. Franco was a dear friend of mine. I guess that, among the people who took part in the Conference in memoriam Franco Montagna, I am the person who has known him for the longest time: we were students together at the university of Pavia in the late Sixties. For our "tesi di laurea", in the early Seventies we went to Ferrar...

Through the study of standardized practices (walking tours, bus-tours) and devices (maps, guidebooks) for touring cities, this dissertation shows (1) how the city of Berlin is transformed into a virtual object, namely, an urban destination, (2) how such transformation is enabled not simply by tourist movement in space and being away from ‚home‘, but by tourist communication on the city, and (3)...

A modern tourist product, which is adjusted to the needs of new tourists no longer includes a tourist partnership role, but individualisation and personalisation of the experience itself. Should such a base be accepted, it is to be concluded that traditional positioning of destination tourist offers on both macro and micro levels is no longer sufficient, i.e. positioning based on comparative ad...

The tourist trip design problem (TTDP) refers to a route-planning problem for tourists interested in visiting multiple points of interest (POIs). TTDP solvers derive daily tourist tours, i.e., ordered visits to POIs, which respect tourist constraints and POIs attributes. The main objective of the problem discussed is to select POIs that match tourist preferences, thereby maximizing tourist sati...

This paper aims to industry a tool for use in decision support tourism, based on GIS applications, so that it explains the sites and tourist services, tourism statistics, and other factors that could affect the development of tourism, with the integration of applications with a variety of assistive technologies such as forms a three-dimensional, and virtual reality, which make scalable applicat...

It is difficult to demand employee productivity, especially when Covid-19 limits social interaction. Continuous extra attention needed so that performance gets optimal evidence. By focusing on leadership styles, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction, this study attempts select how these three factors transmit the of ‘Resort X’ employees in Anambas (Province Riau Islands, Indonesia). T...

Volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals is defined as the squared deviation from mean monthly international tourist arrivals. Consequently, volatility is directly related to the standard deviation, which is a common measure of financial risk. Fluctuating variations, or conditional volatility, in international monthly tourist arrivals are typically associated with unanticipated even...

Europe is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, in which tourism occupies a significant place among the most relevant economic activities, and this applies to the Republic of Croatia as well. Based on this study, the authors intended to encourage and support the creation of an effective tourism policy in Croatia that would be based on the profiling of certain target groups....