Environmental management at nature-based tourism destinations includes a private and a public component. The former refers to voluntary environmental protection activities carried out by individual (and groups of) tourism operators. These activities are motivated by the dependence of the product provided by the tourism industry on the quality of the natural environment. Public sector management...

This research discusses the negative social, environmental and economic impacts of tourism development in Barbados; describes the perceptions of residents and tourists to such; and measures their preferences for environmental management changes using the island’s lone marine reserve, the Folkestone Marine Reserve, as a case study. This research is underpinned by a number of policy and methodolo...

Dr. Pan obtained his Ph.D. in Tourism Management from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 2003. He worked for two years as a post-doctorial associate at Cornell University before he joined the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in College of Charleston as a faculty member and the Head of Research in the Office of Tourism Analysis. His works have been appeared in Annal...

international tourism and its related businesses have considerably increased recently. due to this expansion, tourism employees must be able to communicate appropriately, and effective esp programs need to be administered accordingly. many studies have been conducted on current esp courses for tourism; however, major problems still remain in designing esp courses to satisfy l2 learners’ needs, ...

A research and practice gap is identified demonstrating tourism to be an insufficiently critical business. Initially the idea of critical tourism is addressed in two ways. First an array of meanings is exposed from which the idea of critical theory is developed. Next discussion turns to how critical approaches can contribute to good management and governance of tourism by providing understandin...

*Graduate Institute and Department of Tourism Management, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan †Graduate Institute of Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality Management, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan ‡Tourism Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China §Department of Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan ¶Human Resources D...

This thesis is concerned with the psychology of western independent tourists and its impacts on Chinese tourism management. First, it discusses the different psychological modes under the different historical and cultural backgrounds between China and the West, including mode of thinking, mode of motivated behavior, mode of religion and ethics, and mode of aesthetic values; then, it makes a spe...

Williams (2011), " Service dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: the co-production of innovation in the hotel industry " , Tourism Abstract This paper introduces the concept of service-dominant logic as a research paradigm in marketing management. It does so in the context of tourism management " s need to engage with wider debates within the mainstream management literatu...

This paper aims at finding out the problem in the tourism hospitality management laboratory by analyzing the concept of the tourism hospitality management laboratory and summarizing the basic theory of the tourism hospitality management laboratory. We should consider the actual development situation, and put forward the construction project from its necessity, feasibility, target decision, plan...