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...

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...