In this exploratory study authors combine several approaches to explore the images of two highly attractive tourist destinations: Hawai’i and Croatia. Two convenience samples were used: the image of Hawai’i was measured among Croatian undergraduate business students, and the image of Croatia was measured among Hawaiian tourism students. Functional and psychological image components were assesse...

At present, various types of car navigation systems are progressively entering the market. Simultaneously, mobile outdoor navigation systems for pedestrians and electronic tourist guides are already available on handheld computers. Although, the depiction of the geographical information on these appliances has increasingly improved during the past years, users are still handicapped having to in...

Law 135/2001, which deals with the “Reform of national legislation on tourism” recognizes the strategic role of tourism in the economic and occupational development of Italy, which is realized through the competitive growth of the tourist offering at the local, regional and national level. At a local level, the law identifies the tourist offering with the Local Tourist System, and defines it as...

the purpose of this study is to develop a brand equity model for isfahan as a tourism destination. the statistical population of this study consists of the inbound tourists who have traveled to isfahan in november 2013. a sample of 200 tourists has been selected from this population. a self-administrated questionnaire has been used for collecting the research data. in order to analyze the resea...

Corpus-based linguistic approach is one of the most used text studies. Nowadays, stylistic analysis has been adopted to shed new light on tourism English. The topic is to apply the language theory—the stylistic analysis to the tourist text analysis, to discover the style essence of Tourist English Hypertext. The stylistic features include graphological analysis of Tourist English Hypertext, lex...

For travelers who plan to visit a particular tourist spot, information about it is required. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting and organizing appropriate information from weblogs (blogs). Recently, increased numbers of travelers have been writing of their travel experiences via blogs. We call these travel blog entries, and they contain much useful travel information. For example...

Potential manipulation of prices and convergence to rational expectations equilibrium is studied in a game without noise traders. Informed players with initially long and short positions (bulls and bears) seek to manipulate consumer expectations in opposite directions. In equilibrium, period 1 prices reveal the state, so manipulation is unsuccessful. Bears and uninformed consumers sell up to th...

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...