Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal b Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Rua Augusto Rosa, 24, 4000-098 Porto, Portugal c Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portuga...

Modeling and forecasting techniques of the tourist arrivals are many and diverse. Th ere is no unique model that exactly outperforms the other models in every situation. Actually a few studies have realized modeling and forecasting the tourist arrivals to Turkey and these studies have not focused on the total tourist arrivals. Th ese studies have focused on the tourist arrivals to Turkey countr...

Anders Ryd California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Alberto Crescente, Alvise Dorigo, Fulvio Galeazzi, Mauro Morandin, Roberto Stroili, Gionni Tiozzo, Gabriele Vedovato INFN Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy Francesco Safai Tehrani INFN Rome, I-00185 Rome, Italy Teela Pulliam Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Peter Elmer Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 Antonio Cese...

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...

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...

Halal tourism in West Sumatra is currently an attractive nominated among the world community so many foreign tourists go on vacation to tourist attractions Sumatra. This study aims see influence of halal interest case studies Islamic research method quantitative with descriptive analysis and data collection questionnaires level Likert scale from correspondent tours that have come Sumatra, as 38...

Tourism has been steadily expanding in recent years and continues to do so, with the result that the health and social problems related to this new mass phenomenon are growing likewise. Urgent and serious attention to the various implications is now required on the part of relevant national and international bodies and of all sectors interested in the health and wellbeing of tourists, both in t...

Introduction: Today the market of medical tourism is growing as one of the competitive and profitable industries in the world. The aim of this study was to determine medical tourist attraction in Tehran hospitals. Methods: This is a descriptive study which was carried out in 8 hospitals of Tehran in 2012. 195 people from the managing boards of these hospi...

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...