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...

This study, for the first time, attempts to explore the factors affecting tourist satisfaction with a theatrical performance, The Romance of the Song Dynasty in Hangzhou, China. Four factors are identified to have affected tourist satisfaction: “Performance,” “Venue Environment,” “Service,” and “Stage Facilities”. These theatrical performance factors are examined to assess the relative influenc...

The objectives of this study is to explore various tourism services offered by tourist destinations Jaipur and Agra, to measure satisfaction of tourists by identifying the impact of quality tourism product on overall satisfaction of tourists visiting Jaipur and Agra. In order to evaluate the impact of service quality destination dimensions on the satisfaction of tourists, four hypotheses were d...

Guest Editors help invite many high-quality papers for Remote Sensing. To acknowledge and encourage the generous work and precious time of the guest editor team of Special Issues in Remote Sensing, we launched the Best Guest Editor Award last year for Special Issues closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017. In total, 40 Special Issues were closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017 and these Specia...

With rapid advances in science and technology, the global positioning system (GPS) tracking techniques have improved and become more convenient for exploring spatial patterns of tourist behavior. In this study, we collected the movement data of touristsusing GPS trackers and anAndriod application (APP) executed on smartphone platform to explore the spatial behaviors and characteristics of touri...

The People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. This paper reviews the development of the Chinese inbound tourism industry after the cultural revolution and analyses tourist flows from Japan, which is the most important short-haul inbound market for China. Box-Jenkins univariate time series analysis facilitates an understanding of tourist arrival patterns...

Tourism has long been considered as a 'clean industry' with almost no negative effects on the environment. This study demonstrated, in two different coastal systems (Mediterranean and Baltic), that tourism related activities are particularly affecting the sandy beach meio- and nematofauna in the upper beach zone, the specific ecotone in which many meiofauna species from both the marine and the ...