Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries. Industrial cluster theory is perhaps the leading model for economic development today. Despite this, the academic literature of industrial cluster theory has paid relatively little attention to the tourism industry. Meanwhile, practitioners of tourism development are experimenting with the cluster concept across the US and ar...

Introduction The tourism industry can provide a good platform for investment, and because of its less reliance on resources, provides an opportunity for less developed countries to stimulate their economic growth to increase production and create job opportunities. Meanwhile, the villages have very favorable and special conditions in accordance with their cultural, social, economic, geographic...

The upgrading of industrial cluster is upgrading along the value chain, improving the added value of products, which is from low-end to high-end in the value chain. Industrial cluster is made up of one or several supply chain in a certain geographic area concentration, and has a coupling between them. The development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration has entered a new stage of resource i...

In the European Union and its neighborhood, regional development has increasingly come to focus on agglomerations during the last three decades. Notably, during the 1990s and early 2000s, clustering was the major policy focus in regional development. Currently, the concept of smart specialization is applied all over the European Union and is attracting interest in the EU’s neighborhood. The tou...

As an emerging field of eco-efficiency, tourism eco-efficiency is becoming an important way to measure the sustainable development of tourism. This study calculated and decomposed tourism CO2 emissions in China, explored its evolution and distribution characteristics by using the ratio method of tourism eco-efficiency, and analyzed the influencing factors by adopting a regression model. The res...

The article examines the opportunities for wine tourism in context of cluster approach to increase competitiveness. presented results are part a monographic survey conducted among producers and consumers Bulgaria. Working good practices field have been established conceptual design building based on has proposed.

Stakeholders' perceptions towards tourism development within destinations have been emphasized by researchers and practitioners. However, literature has only focused local residents' role in tourism development, leaving a gap in knowledge on stakeholders' engagement in tourism development process. Th is study investigates stakeholders' perceptions, attitudes and involvement in tourism developme...

There is a close natural connection in tourism and Convention & Exposition (C&E) since they are mutually affected and promoted. This study attempts to theoretically analyze the tourism effect and marketing tactics of the C&E industry. To do this, the inductive method and value train theory are introduced to analyze the supply and demand of tourism. Findings reveal that not only can C&E produce ...