The number of tourists to recreation areas has increased dramatically, leading to a growing concern about the congestion phenomena in these areas. Since the information provision has been introduced to reduce the congestion, its potential benefits as well as its drawbacks have been discussed controversially. In this work, we address a basic recreation area scenario with different patterns of in...

This paper aims to clarify heritage tourism by identifying and segmenting reasons for visiting heritage sites. In doing so it highlights the point that the links between a site's attributes and the tourists themselves are essential to understanding tourists’ motivations to visit heritage places. The sample was composed of English speaking international tourists leaving Israel through Ben-Gurion...

more than two third of the world lands are located in arid and semi arid area including iran. unfortunately there is lack of information and consequently poor scientific studies in these areas because of the difficulties which we face for collecting data and doing field studies in such a big areas under hard situations. however, in the recent decades there has been a great progress in using rem...

Native biodiversity on the Galapagos Archipelago is severely threatened by invasive alien species. On Santa Cruz Island, the abundance of introduced plant species is low in the arid lowlands of the Galapagos National Park, but increases with elevation into unprotected humid highlands. Two common alien plant species, guava (Psidium guajava) and passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) occur at higher e...

introduction nowadays because of various economic problems in rural areas it is necessary to pay attention to new economic activities such as tourism, in order to overcome economic challenges as well as achieving sustainable development goals. estimating tourist's willingness to pay and analyzing the affecting factors on it, along with the economical and social demands of people could dema...