International Tourism Policy and Development: Indian Tourism Policy

Research Tourism, Indian Psychiatry and International Databases

Recently, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has written to several organizations seeking information on their infrastructure for drug trials. The DCGI was actually trying to figure out the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training requirements at the national level. The DCGI wishes to build up a pool of GCP trained clinicians in the country by initiating a series of training campaigns. T...

Independent expeditions and Antarctic tourism policy

Discussions about the management of non-governmental activities in Antarctica have been handicapped by a lack of clarity in terminology. The term ‘tourism,’ for example, is used in a catch-all manner to describe activities as widely divergent and incommensurable as overflights by commercial jetliners and solo ski traverses of the ice cap. Recent debate about stricter regulation of independent e...

A Systematic Approach to Tourism Policy

The Middle East is the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of the revenue badly trail the neighboring countries in Europe; Italy, Spain, and Greece. As noted in Table 1, Spain and Italy by three major religions practiced today. As such, most countries in the Middle East have a natural competitive advantage in the global tourism far have the highest revenues from tourism relative to any ot...

Learning from abroad or policy tourism?

Tourism Policy Making: the Policymakers’ Perspectives

This research explores tourism policy making, from the perspectives of policy makers using grounded theory. It focuses on Leeds, a city in the North of England, which is characterized by its turbulent environment. The paper identifies themes around policy making, including low status, lack of clarity, uncertainty, lack of consensus and congruence and complexity. Its findings indicate policy mak...