Mitigating Aggressive Small Trade at Tourist Destinations Through Cognitive Restructuring

Environmental management with community involvement at tourist destinations

Sustainable tourist development in Italian holiday destinations

This paper argues that tourism will become a major activity in a modern welfare state, which will have serious consequences for environmental sustainability. This issue calls for an assessment of the pros and cons of the ecological efficiency of tourism. We propose an overall efficiency indicator that comprises both a sustainable tourism index and an economic efficiency index. Based on a data s...

Cooperative Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in Alpine Tourist Destinations

Internet technology is a major enabler for collaboration in customer-oriented processes; in this case a corporate CRM infrastructure for tourist destinations. Besides this crucial technological driver, the need for an increased customer-orientation in marketing activities through the utilization of knowledge about customers forces a change in marketing communications. This adaptation is require...

Suggesting Tourist Destinations by means of Time-Slice Density Estimation

In recent years, a growing interest has been given to trajectory data mining applications that permit to support mobility prediction with the aim of anticipating or pre-fetching possible services. Proposed approaches typically consider only spatio-temporal information provided by collected trajectories. However, in some scenarios, such as that of tourist supporting, semantic information which e...

The Dynamics of Search Engine Marketing for Tourist Destinations

Search engine marketing (SEM) has become an important strategic tool for destinations and tourism organizations to promote and advertise online. Due to the dynamic and constantly evolving relationships among travelers as information searchers, search engines, and the online tourism domain, the authors argued that a new model must be conceived to capture these relationships in order to better in...