Tourism accounts for a substantial and increasing portion of the Sub-Saharan African economy. In Tanzania, number international tourist arrivals nearly doubled from 2010 to 2018, many them participated in nature-based tourism. addition jobs revenue created by tourism, it has both positive negative impacts on place’s environment. For example, can fund conservation efforts, but also lead deforest...

Scuba diving allows for underwater visitation of cultural and natural resources. Underwater routes can be used as a tool for guided and supervised underwater visits. Two scuba diving routes were implemented in the Algarve (South of Portugal), the “B24” and “Poço” diving sites. The perceptions of scuba divers regarding several aspects of the routes and the existing support infrastructures were s...

Th e goal of this paper is the assessment of the impact of personal experience on visitors' perceptions of the environments of selected tourist attractions. Th e cognitive paradigm of environmental perception research was chosen and the Mehrabian-Russell general measure of information rate was used. Students from the University of South Bohemia from three diff erent study programmes (faculties)...

This paper considers the change in information seeking behaviour of tourists as a result of the increased use of the World Wide Web as an information resource in the context of information services provided by visitor information centres (VICs). The theoretical approach adopts the model of expectation-disconfirmation effects on web customer satisfaction. The paper proposes that visitor informat...

Today, families are considered the main contributors to growing market of tourism business. This trend is motivated by awareness on retaining family ties and generating memories memories. Making decision for sports a challenging task, especially when it involves inter-generational tourism. Although globally, details challenges that constrain tourists varies across globe surprisingly no study ha...

Th is study provides a timely update of some empirical fi ndings of ecotourism experience in relation to Chinese tourists’ post-trip behaviors. Based on a qualitative research approach through in-depth interview with 28 Chinese domestic tourists, the authors show that Chinese tourists explicitly or implicitly have adapted environmentally friendly lifestyles after their ecotourism travel, althou...

This research aims to examine tourists’ perception of the sustainable tourism development of the Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province, China. It reviews tourists’ opinions on three sustainability aspects of tourism (economic, environmental and socio-cultural aspects) and assess differences among tourist demographics. The research used non-random convenient sampling. 384 questionnaires were distri...

Drawing upon tourism contribution, tourists’ visitations are the backbone of country’s economic growth and development. This study thus aims to test a structural model for examining relationship between affection, cultural perceptions, their revisit, recommendation intentions through mediating role past travel experience. To our hypotheses, 547 questionnaires from Thai tourists were analyzed us...

Can tourism be the catalyst for urban preservation while permitting the continuation of urban culture? Only if local distinctiveness, rather than preserved monuments, is what attracts tourists to an historic region, argues Orba̧sli. The author advocates preservation through a planning-management approach. This approach avoids façadism (i.e., preservation of the physical elements only), and inste...