Acknowledgements Thanks to Dr Cesare Furlanello and to Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone for giving me the possibility to develop this project and for what they have taught me. Thanks to the entire group MPBA of ITC-irst, and particularly to Dr Giuseppe Jurman, Dr Stefano Merler and Dr Silvano Paoli for helping with many technical issues. Thanks also to Roberto Flor and Alessandro Soraruf for discussing a...

Tourism has become a wide-spread phenomenon in our age and a focal point of economic policy of many regions competing for the favours of tourists. Consequently, competitiveness of tourist destinations has received increasing interest in economic research with a view to the identification of the user attractiveness of a tourist area. The present paper is inspired by the conceptual competitivenes...

Selecting tourist attractions and collecting related site information is one of the most crucial activities for a tourist when making decisions for a trip. Although various recommendation systems have been discussed over the last decade, rarely do such systems take individual tourist preference information into consideration. Based on the Engel–Blackwell–Miniard (EBM) model, this study used dat...

There is an economic natural resource curse as well as a political natural resource curse. The economic literature identifies certain characteristics of countries that are likely to fall victims to the former curse. ent literature on the y to explore the question In this essay we draw on these characteristics, rec political natural resource curse and Cuba’s histor of how likely is Cuba to fall...

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal b Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Rua Augusto Rosa, 24, 4000-098 Porto, Portugal c Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portuga...

Modeling and forecasting techniques of the tourist arrivals are many and diverse. Th ere is no unique model that exactly outperforms the other models in every situation. Actually a few studies have realized modeling and forecasting the tourist arrivals to Turkey and these studies have not focused on the total tourist arrivals. Th ese studies have focused on the tourist arrivals to Turkey countr...

Anders Ryd California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Alberto Crescente, Alvise Dorigo, Fulvio Galeazzi, Mauro Morandin, Roberto Stroili, Gionni Tiozzo, Gabriele Vedovato INFN Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy Francesco Safai Tehrani INFN Rome, I-00185 Rome, Italy Teela Pulliam Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Peter Elmer Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 Antonio Cese...

The measurement of walkway slip resistance is required to assess the risk of slipping. Unlike other countries, the U.S. has not decided upon a single approach to the measurement of slip resistance. Several types of tribometers are available to measure slip resistance however, the measured value of the slip resistance of a given surface has been found to be tribometer specific. The introduction ...

In the process of studying the number of tourist arrivals of each moment on every day, one of the key findings is a very good statistical regularity about tourist total arrivals. There exists high similarity among different scales of tourist arrivals, including the nearly same change trend. And on this basis this paper puts forward a new method of modeling and forecasting real-time tourist arri...