Understanding circularity in tourism

Public Understanding of Sustainable Tourism

If tourism is to become part of a more sustainable lifestyle, changes are needed to the patterns of behaviour adopted by the public. This paper presents the results of research conducted amongst members of the public in England on their understanding of sustainable tourism; their response to four desired tourism behaviour goals, and expectations about the role of government and the tourism indu...

Designing Tourism Places: Understanding the Tourism Experience through Our Senses

Understanding Travel Destinations From Structured Tourism Blogs

The increasing popularity of tourist generated content has created abundant opportunities for people to understand the opinions and experiences of prior tourists. However, till now no framework has been presented to automatically discover useful patterns from structured tourism blogs. In this paper, we present a method to mine the tourism information such as frequented spots and popular travel ...

Understanding Urban Tourism: researching culture and experience

Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

Understanding the Effects of a Tourism

Tourism as one of the most economically important industries is also one of the most vulnerable to crises and disasters. This study is focused on measuring the short-term impact of a recent incidence, the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill, using a systems perspective. Drawing from two datasets measuring the performance of the hotel and vacation rental industries, a major part of the accommodation industry...