In the changing understanding of tourism, people have certain expectations and demands for products services during their travels. Within these demands, they want to see tourism diversification factors that make up touristic product such as a travel plan, accommodation area, food beverage, entertainment can meet needs, consumer needs. Although it is seen number disabled individuals participatin...

The paper forms a rejoinder to the paper by David Weaver (‘Organic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence’). It fully agrees with David Weaver that a sustainable development of tourism should focus on sustainable mass tourism development and not, as is currently the case, so much on niche products labelled ‘sustainable’. However, it critiques Weaver’s operational...

This paper develops a new model which exposes the epistemological characteristics of tourism studies. Various claims and frameworks have been proposed with regard to the epistemology of tourism, mainly centering around the discipline/field debate. A critical review of these is undertaken and the idea that tourism studies is a discipline is rejected. It is proposed that tourism be conceptualized...

Discussions about sustainable tourism development generally focus on policy making. Many studies on sustainable tourism development address issues such as area tourism planning and development, management, and the formulation of tourism development guidelines and regulations. However, in this study, rather than focusing on policy making, I will focus on small-scale tourism entrepreneurs who are...

This paper analyzes the developments in Croatian tourism sector during the last decade. Croatian tourism indicators are compared to the indicators of other Mediterranean countries with strong tourism activity and a dominance of the “sun and sea” tourism product. The results of the analysis suggest that tourism in Croatia exhibits favorable results in terms of strong growth in tourism revenues, ...

This paper introduces the processing technology of high resolution remote sensing image, the specific making process of tourism map and different remote sensing data in the key application of tourism planning and so on. Remote sensing extracts agricultural tourism planning information, improving the scientificalness and operability of agricultural tourism planning. Therefore remote sensing imag...

Tourism competitive conditions nowadays, have made it necessary for businesses to respond customer demands as quickly possible. In this case, becomes important tourism translate into business voice. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a technique used product/service design satisfaction, which enables use all its capabilities current in the most effective way line with demands. refers developm...

All-for-One Tourism is a new planning concept proposed by Chinese tourism management practitioners. Based on the present situation of tourism industry development, the new planning concept is to guide the transformation and upgrading of tourist destinations. The development level of all-for-one tourism represents the maturity of regional tourism industry. China has been actively promoting the a...

E-business has become a new growth point of current economic development in the world. The natural adaptability between tourism and E-business gives birth to tourism E-business. The tourism resources in Shanxi are unique, yet its tourism development level and the abundant resources are not harmonious. To transform its resource advantage into economic advantage, developing tourism E-business is ...

Sustainable tourism has achieved the status of being the superior goal in Norwegian government tourism policy, and is attaining much attention in the international scientific and political discourse on tourism. However, have policies on sustainable tourism and related concepts actually managed to make tourism more sustainable? This article seeks to address this question by first presenting the ...