The People’s Republic of China is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. This paper reviews the development of the Chinese inbound tourism industry after the cultural revolution and analyses tourist flows from Japan, which is the most important short-haul inbound market for China. Box-Jenkins univariate time series analysis facilitates an understanding of tourist arrival patterns...

In this paper, we present Face Translation, a translation agent for people who speak different languages. The system can not only translate a spoken utterance into another language, but also produce an audio-visual output with the speaker’s face and synchronized lip movement. The visual output is synthesized from real images based on image morphing technology. Both mouth and eye movements are g...

Apart from simple guesswork, time-series and regression techniques have largely dominated forecasting models for international tourism demand. This paper presents a new approach that uses a supervised feed-forward neural network model to forecast Japanese tourist arrivals in Hong Kong. The input layer of the neural network contains six nodes: Service Price, Average Hotel Rate, Foreign Exchange ...

The growing perception that the Internet is becoming an engine of global economic and social change has inspired both governments and intergovernmental agencies to accelerate the diffusion of the Internet around the globe via multimillion dollar programs and initiatives. Unfortunately, few empirical studies guide these initiatives. The purpose of this research is to investigate the causes that ...

Goals: Develop an Android app for signs translation from English to Chinese or other foreign languages with auto voicing. Useful for sign recognition at airport or on road, menu translation while dining at a restaurant, guide translation at tourist attractions, text translation while reading a book. Help foreigners to guide and enjoy themselves when travelling in the states without the hassle o...

This paper proposes a tourist route model that is based on the integration of GIS spatial analysis functions and a kind of heuristic search algorithm based on local optimisation. A vector-based model is used to represent tourists’ personal interests and the available tourist resources. Based on these two representations, the system can build a user model that indicates the attractions values of...

Tourism has long been considered as a 'clean industry' with almost no negative effects on the environment. This study demonstrated, in two different coastal systems (Mediterranean and Baltic), that tourism related activities are particularly affecting the sandy beach meio- and nematofauna in the upper beach zone, the specific ecotone in which many meiofauna species from both the marine and the ...

In our study, we explore the extension analysis of ecological engineering management of the tourist area. And the primary goal in ecological engineering management is to realize the sustainable development of the tourist area. We set targets for the sustainable development of the tourist area on the basis of the analysis on the current situation. And then we build up target and condition matter...

This netnographic study explores first-person stories from online personal travel reports to gain an understanding of tourist experiences. This study uses these stories in order to model tourist spatiotemporal movement at the destination within the context of their tourist-activated networks. The stories provide information about the behavior of tourists on the move with respect to their proble...

Many mature and popular tourist destinations are attracting large volumes of tourist flows. Especially during peak periods this may lead to congestion phenomena in different areas of tourist cities. This paper presents the results of a tourist survey carried out in the city centre of Amsterdam, during the high tourist season (2006), when congestion phenomena are clearly present. In addition to ...