Haze pollution has worsened and has received close attention by news agencies in the past two years. This type of environmental pollution might have a great effect on tourism image and the entire tourism industry of a destination. This study aimed to reveal the potential impacts of haze pollution on the tourism industry. Based on a case study in Beijing using questionnaires for potential touris...

a r t i c l e i n f o How to provide transport infrastructure to a tourist destination optimally is a salient question in tourism economics. Even so, this question has received no theoretical attention in the literature. Hence, we use contract theory to provide the first theoretical analysis of the optimal provision of transport infrastructure by an asymmetrically informed tourist agency (TA) i...

Destination image has been extensively studied in tourism and marketing, but the questions surrounding discrepancy between projected (perceptions from National Tourism Organizations) perceived destination tourists) as well how may influence sustainable experience remain unclear. Poor understanding of cause tourist confusion misuse resources. The aim this study is to empirically investigate if (...

In this study, the investigators use scores from the Tourist Ecological Orientation (TEO) Scale (Uriely, Reichel & Shani, 2007) of Costa Rica visitors to understand how their ecological orientation and interest in ecological practices influence accommodation and destination site choices. Results from this study were intended to be used to inform professionals in the tourism industry on how they...

Travel based recommendation and journey planning are challenging tasks because of various interest preferences and trip restrictions such as limitation of time, source and destination points for each tourist. Large amount of data can be collected from the Internet and travel guides, but these resources normally recommend individual Point of Interest (POI) that is considered to be familiar, but ...

This paper describes the general architecture and function of an intelligent recommendation system aimed at supporting a leisure traveller in the task of selecting a tourist destination, bundling a set of products and composing a plan for the travel. The system enables the user to identify his own destination and to personalize the travel by aggregating elementary items (additional locations to...