As a resource-exhausted city, Tourism as a pillar industry of economic transformation in Zaozhuang is fostered as a key point. The development of tourism industry is closely related to the information technology. In the paper, after analyzing the tourism situation of Zaozhuang, WebGIS and Virtual Reality technology are applied to the tourism industry, and Tourism Information System in Zaozhuang...

In Lugano (Switzerland), the OECD Tourism Committee was the first intergovernmental body to examine in-depth the relationship between growth and innovation in the area of tourism. This paper examines the main issues raised during the Lugano Conference: ! Why does tourism in the developed OECD countries urgently need to innovate? ! What factors are preventing the much needed restructuring of the...

This paper focuses on tourism-related opinion mining, including tourism-related opinion detection and tourist-attraction target identification. The experimental data are blog articles labeled as being in the domestic tourism category in a blogspace. Annotators were asked to annotate the opinion polarity and the opinion target for every sentence. Different strategies and features have been propo...

In both developing and developed countries tourism is often regarded as an economic activity of immense significance creating thousands of jobs. However, calculations dealing with the economic nature of tourism are often derived from input-output models, which largely overstate its effects on employment by assuming linear responses and highly elastic supplies of goods, services and labor. The p...

Introduction Tourism is considered as one of the fascinating facets of the socio-economic development of modern times. It is about people, places, structures and interactions of varying nature and intensities that eventually contribute emergence of a diverse set of outcomes viz. economic, socio-cultural and environmental. Perhaps the reach and linkages of tourism is far wider and complex and th...

Tourism has become an important economic activity in all the countries of the world. It creates various direct, indirect and induced effects in the economy. This paper attempts to confirm empirically about the positive impact of tourism in Nepal. It is based on Nepalese data of foreign exchange earnings from tourism and gross domestic product for the period between FY 1974/75 and 2009/10. Co-in...

Despite an increased scientific understanding of the magnitude and regional variation in climate change in the coming decades, the societal costs of climate change remain difficult to quantify. This is mainly due to uncertainty surrounding future climate change and economic projections, as well as the complexities of linking physical impacts to economic processes. One of the sectors for which i...

This research aims to examine tourists’ perception of the sustainable tourism development of the Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province, China. It reviews tourists’ opinions on three sustainability aspects of tourism (economic, environmental and socio-cultural aspects) and assess differences among tourist demographics. The research used non-random convenient sampling. 384 questionnaires were distri...

We can define the territorial heritage as a product that shaped its identify in the mixing of environmental, building and anthropogenic components. Nowadays, the traditional theories of development, based on an unlimited economic growth consider “territory” in more and more reducing terms. If on the one side it has produced a fast growth, on the long term it has caused environmental and social ...