This literature review focuses on tourism destination competitiveness in the field of sport (TDC sport) or, more specifically, mapping dealing with factors influencing and measuring T...

Health tourism is of growing interest for tourism destinations and serves as a key theme to add value and to diff erentiate destinations’ tourism product and service bundles. In tourism research recent studies underline the importance of various forms of health tourism in the Alps. However, due to the fact that health tourism defi nitions vary greatly amongst academics one can hardly assess the...

BACKGROUND Tourism, combined with the phrase medical, seems to be a new form of tourism which has gained huge popularity in recent decades. Though, a number of literatures available with regard to the tourism industry and the competitiveness of the destination, however, the major aspects which determine the satisfaction of medical tourists are hardly focused specifically on Malaysia. There is a...

Tourism destinations have a necessity to innovate in order to remain competitive in an increasingly global environment. A pre-requisite for innovation is the understanding of how destinations source, share and use knowledge. This conceptual paper examines the nature of networks and how their analysis can shed light upon the processes of knowledge sharing in destinations as they strive to innova...

independently produced elements which effectively constitute tourists’ total experience of the destination. However, due to their vulnerability, deficient marketing and management functions, and dependence upon distribution channel partners they also tend to jeopardise the benefits of tourism activity for destinations and host communities. Nevertheless, the prosperity of destinations and SMTEs ...

We study the problem of online packet routing and information gathering in lines, rings and trees. A network consists of n nodes. At each node there is a buffer of size B. Each buffer can transmit one packet to the next buffer at each time step. The packets injection is under adversarial control. Packets arriving at a full buffer must be discarded. In information gathering all packets have the ...