Rural tourism is important throughout the world, and it is likely to become even more important as it is regarded as one of the fastest growing market segments of tourism [1]. What fuels it is several developments on the visitor side, such as: consumer orientations away from mass tourism, a growing demand for activity-based holidays, growth in the short breaks holiday market, a move towards hea...

Educational tourism, a burgeoning section in China’s tourism market, has attracted great attention from both industry and researchers, however, the focus always falls on young people, the educational demands of other tourists are largely neglected. The paper, firstly does a comprehensive analysis of situation and problems of Chinese inbound, outbound and domestic education tourism markets, and ...

This paper investigate Iranian tourism demand to Malaysia using the recently developed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) ‘Bound test’ approach to cointegration for 2000:Q1 to 2013:Q4. The demand for tourism has been explained by macroeconomic variables, including income in Iran, tourism prices in Malaysia, tourism price substitute, travel cost and trade value between Iran and Malaysia. In a...

Health tourism is of growing interest for tourism destinations and serves as a key theme to add value and to diff erentiate destinations’ tourism product and service bundles. In tourism research recent studies underline the importance of various forms of health tourism in the Alps. However, due to the fact that health tourism defi nitions vary greatly amongst academics one can hardly assess the...

The Tourism Education Futures Institute (TEFI) seeks to provide vision, knowledge and a framework for tourism education programs that promote global citizenship and optimism for a better world. This paper provides background on TEFI, its inception, its development and its future. The paper argues that a fundamental shift in tourism education is necessary to respond to global challenges impactin...

In the tourism demand literature, much of the research focuses on income and price variables as demand determinants for travel. Nevertheless, the literature has neglected other possible indicators such as consumers’ perceptions of the future course of the economy, household debt and the number of hours worked in paid jobs. In fact, several studies found that these indicators could influence con...

This article aims at identifying the factors involved in affecting the travel demand to Iran. The hypothesis of the research specifies the variable of “domestic social unrest and insecurity” as the most significant obstacle that stands against an expansion of the demand for travel to Iran. To test the above hypothesis, first several demand models that have been proposed to study demand for tour...

a systemic approach to tourism may be regarded as a comprehensive measure to appreciate, analyze, plan and mobilize tourism as an industry. through such an approach, one may investigate and bring into alignment factors influencing tourism (such as tourists, the host society, institutes associated with tourism, and the environment) as an interrelated system of elements. to put it another way, a ...