Innovative Approaches in Tourism Business Development

Electronic business in tourism

The web changes commercial activities such as information gathering, shopping, trading, collaboration, and distribution to which companies need to adapt their strategies. The importance of information and communication technology (ICT), especially of the internet in the travel and tourism industry has increased tremendously over the past few years. The travel and tourism area is one of those in...

Tourism and Development in Ballyhoura : Women ' s Business ?

Tourism and other kinds of local development have become important elements in generating employment in rural Ireland. Yet, despite a commitment to local participation and to gender auditing, women are typically under-represented in structures promoting tourism and other kinds of development at local level (Kearney, et al., 1995). Using documentary evidence, this paper first describes this phen...

Tourism: A Critical Business

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...

On Chinese tourism e-business development on current stage

By analyzing the economy and technology background of appearance of tourism e-business, the paper describe the concept of tourism ebusiness and it’s operation mode in order to master this modern alternative deeply and all-round. The author emphasizes on the discussion of the interpromotion and inter-development relationship between e-business and tourism economy, meanwhile forecasts the future ...

Market Segmentation Approaches in Tourism