In this paper, we propose a new image-based algorithm to identify where a tourist is when visiting unfamiliar places. When the tourist takes a photo of an unfamiliar place, our algorithm can recognize where the tourist is by retrieving similar images from an image database, where location information is associated with each image. Our method is not only fusing global and local information but u...

This paper proposes a real options model for a duopoly faced with an exogenous entry of a third competitor that can expand the market. Usually market positions appear as a stable status quo situation. Competition exists while the duopoloy places are available and both firms fight for them, but after the entry of the follower, no more competitive damages or benefits are considered. The proposed ...

During the last two decades, tourism policies in Spain have had as a priority objective the diversification and differentiation of tourist destinations, together with the improvement of service and infrastructure quality levels as the best strategies to guarantee the competitiveness of tourism activity. Although Spain has managed to maintain its leadership as a sun and sand tourist destination,...

Members of the Tourist family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are very abundant among a wide variety of plants, are frequently found associated with normal plant genes, and thus are thought to be important players in the organization and evolution of plant genomes. In Arabidopsis, the recent discovery of a Tourist member harboring a putative transposase has shed new l...

Agent-based simulation is a technology which is being used as a decision support tool for recreation managers to better plan the development of tourist destinations in the face of increasing tourist numbers. Agent-based simulation for national park management is a developing field of research. A number of projects have been undertaken, applying the technology to a range of park scenarios. These...

INTRODUCTION The focus of this chapter is on understanding the tourist experience of Canberra, Australia’s capital city, particularly within its main parliamentary precinct. This precinct possesses both political and touristic significance, as it encompasses a set of major national institutions amongst which are eight of the city’s ten most visited sites. The tourist experience is theorised thr...

Structured overlays provide a basic substrate for many peer-to-peer systems. Existing structured overlays can be classified into two categories, O(logN)-hop ones and O(1)-hop ones. The former are suitable for large and dynamic systems, while the latter are suitable for small or stable ones. However, for the lack of adaptivity, it is difficult for a peer-to-peer system designer to choose from th...

Europe is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, in which tourism occupies a significant place among the most relevant economic activities, and this applies to the Republic of Croatia as well. Based on this study, the authors intended to encourage and support the creation of an effective tourism policy in Croatia that would be based on the profiling of certain target groups....

In the big data era, the social media data that contain users’ geographical locations are growing explosively. These kinds of spatiotemporal data provide a new perspective for us to observe the human movement behavior. By mining such spatiotemporal data, we can incorporate the users’ collective wisdom, build novel services and bring convenience to people. Through spatial clustering of the origi...