TOURISM AND SOCIAL POLICY

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...

Social Tourism Using Photos

Mobile phones are frequently used to determine one's location and navigation directions, and they can also provide a platform for connecting tourists with each other. This paper proposes a system that uses a set of geotagged photos to automatically compute the geographic location of another photo and then augment that photo with text and images that enable collaboration and enhance navigation. ...

Developments in Tourism Social Science

John Tribe University of Surrey, UK John Tribe is Professor of Tourism at the University of Surrey (Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Email ). He has authored books on philosophy, strategy, economics, education, research and environmental management and his research concentrates on epistemology, education, and sustainability. He is Editor-in-Chief of Annals and Co-Chair o...

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?