Emerging cultural tourism practices: new opportunities for small cities?

Online Opportunities and Challenges for Indigenous Cultural Tourism in Australia

Tourism is seen as an industry that has the potential to provide sustainable economic foundations for indigenous communities in Australia. This article identifies online technology as contributing to the capacity for indigenous communities to access the benefits of tourism. Indigenous communities engaged in tourism can utilize the Internet to supply the tourism product as well as deliver much n...

Entrepreneurial opportunities for sports tourism based on Iran's geographical climate

The aim of this study is to identify and rank entrepreneurial opportunities in sports tourism based on geographical capabilities and capacities in Iran. The present study was descriptive-survey and was performed by mixed method. Data collection in this study was done in two stages. In the first phase, a list of entrepreneurial opportunities of sports tourism was identified through a search of p...

A Framework for Itinerary Personalization in Cultural Tourism of Smart Cities

Smart tourism in cities of art is a personalized user experience that exploits smart city infrastructures to offer increased opportunities of visit and services and time optimization. Traditionally, this capability requires the availability of personal mobile systems and geolocalization, augmented with some smart computing that provides the due information and functions at the right time and lo...

Health Tourism: Opportunities, Constraints, Obstacles and Solutions

Chapter 88 Creative Tourism and Cultural Heritage : A New Perspective

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...