Social media data are increasingly used as the source of research in a variety of domains. A typical example is urban analytics, which aims at solving urban problems by analyzing data from different sources including social media. The potential value of social media data in tourism studies, which is one of the key topics in urban research, however has been much less investigated. This paper see...

E-government (e-Gov) has become one of the most important parts of government strategies. Significant efforts have been devoted to e-Gov tourism services in many countries because tourism is one of the major profitable industries. However, the current e-Gov tourism services are limited to simple online presentation of tourism information. Intelligent e-Gov tourism services, such as the personal...

There are many tourism cities in China and sustainable development of urban tourism has become an important field of tourism research. An ecological safety evaluation index system of tourism city was constructed. The evaluation index system was composed of resource, environmental, economic and social subsystem. Classification standard of evaluation indexes was discussed. Then an evaluation mode...

Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are similarly wide-ranging when theorizing turns to the implications of tourism development for subaltern peoples in the region. Just as it is customary to emphasize the historically subordinate status of wome...

Iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. Unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of Iran. The special factors influence on transi...

Contribution of tourism development to protected area management: local stakeholder perspectives Jianying Xu a , Yihe Lü b , Liding Chen b & Yang Liu b a College of Resource, Environment and Tourism , Capital Normal University , Beijing, China b State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for EcoEnvironmental of Science , Chinese Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 2871, Beij...

with the advent of cyberspace and development of data and information, virtual cities were presented as new forms of city management in different layers and territories. historic and tourism virtual city are among eight types of virtual cities. in this article some guidelines were presented in order to design and manage them based on tehran tourists' need assessment. theoretical framework ...

For many alpine areas in Switzerland, winter tourism is the most important source of income, and snow-reliability is one of the key elements of the offers made by tourism in the Alps. 85% of Switzerland's current ski resorts can be designated as snow-reliable. If climate change occurs, the level of snow-reliability will rise from 1200 m up to 1800 m over the next few decades. Only 44% of the sk...

The Black-flanked Rock-Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis lateralis) was once widespread throughout Western Australia but due to a combination of factors its range has declined significantly and its present distribution is limited to a few widely scattered isolated populations. It is gazetted as vulnerable under Western Australian legislation and requires active management to ensure its survival. Tra...