This paper presents a case concerning domestic tourism on the Isle of Man, British Isles. Qualitative interviews find existence of considerable domestic tourism activity conducted by island residents. This includes daytrips and overnight stays within the island. Such behaviour is identified by residents as touristic and distinct from other leisure activities. Particular activities and motivatio...

Although the construction and amplification of touristically-celebrated peoples’ Otherness on global mediascapes has been well documented, the genesis of touristic imagery in out of the way locales, where tourism is embryonic at best, has yet to be examined. This article explores the emergent construction of touristic imagery on the small, sporadically visited Eastern Indonesian island of Alor ...

Traditional culture of the Mediterranean includes with no exception, together with many other manifestations, food as well; its growing, its processing, its preparation and its consumption. As an everyday exigency, food is closely connected with many different human activities. In the years of shortage it would provoke processes of exceptional dynamics. Different cultural strata, which left the...

Recommendation systems provide focused information to users on a set of objects belonging to a specific domain. The proposed recommender system provides personalized suggestions about touristic points of interest. The system generates recommendations, consisting of touristic places, according to the current position of a tourist and previously collected data describing tourist movements in a to...

The Web is a crucial means for the dissemination of touristic information. However, most touristic information resources are stored directly in Web pages or in relational databases that are accessible through ad-hoc Web applications, and the use of automated processes to search, extract and interpret information can hardly be implemented. The Semantic Web technologies, aiming at representing th...

Th is paper is the outcome of a bilateral Romanian-Austrian research project on new and innovative initiatives in rural development. It was the aim of the study to identify success factors of strategies applied and to verify their transferability. Th is article presents results related to the role of tourism in rural development in a comparative way focusing on the following main aspects: (1) t...

The current expansion of the Internet makes it one of the most popular places to publish and search for almost any kind of information. In particular, touristic information—not only about tours or information about resources, places, museums, or monuments, but also cultural tourism—has gained much attention in the last years. We propose the use of geographical information systems (GIS) technolo...

tria's touristic programmes, and as a marketing organisation for the entire system and its various sub-systems (provinces, regions, resorts, businesses and other operators in the tourist industry). Within the framework of its cornmunication policy, ANT0 sees its most important role in implementing a consistent policy of high-quality ('brand name policy') for Austria. Apart from developing typic...