Emerging Issues for Cultural Tourism in Macau

Interactive Strategies for Cultural Heritage Tourism and Macau City Development: The Tourists' Perspectives

This paper examines the cultural heritage resources of Macau in tandem with the city’s development. The investigation encompasses the actual condition of Macau’s cultural heritage tourism and the challenges and opportunities for its future development. Based on the experiences of other countries, the authors set strategic goals, provide an overall path and developmental strategies, and create a...

Issues in Sustainable Tourism

Tourism offers an opportunity for major development as a linchpin industry in the structural adjustment necessary to transition to a lower carbon economy in some regions. Drivers for the development of a tourism industry can be primarily economic sustainability without due reference to environmental sustainability. Several issues are emerging including the need for regulation. There is a view i...

Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation for Cultural Tourism

Cultural heritage appreciation is a privileged area of application for innovative, natural– language centred applications. In this paper we discuss some of the opportunities and challenges with a specific view of intelligent information presentation, that takes into account the user characteristics and behaviour and the context of the interaction. We make reference to the new PEACH project, aim...

Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism

Despite a busy lifestyle – or perhaps as a result of a stressful lifestyle – more people than ever before make leisure trips, sometimes for a long time but in many cases just for short periods. Modern telecommunication technology brings attractive tourist destinations directly into the living rooms of potential travellers, also destinations that would otherwise have been difficult to find, such...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies