This presentation will discuss a couple of arguments concerning public policy towards the management of tourism driven by natural attractions. Such attractions are public assets, but are priced at zero for private entrepreneurs for whom they are an essential input. The first argument I will address is that this is economically inefficient. Second, while price discrimination between domestic and...

Introduction. The relevance of the work is predetermined by need to develop a strategy for development business tourism in Ukraine, taking into account trends world centers and optimizing ways our country's entry global space tourism. This all more important because leading tourist regions world, has high profitability often plays significant role budgets states, including economically highly d...

Tourist movement is a complex process, but it provides very useful information for park managers and tourist operators. This paper aims to establish a sound methodology for modelling the spatial and temporal movement of tourists, with the objectives of understanding, predicting, controlling and optimising the decisions made by them as they go about choosing the attractions they want to visit.. ...

Earlier works has explored that a foreign language can be learnt from pictures than merely using native language word translations. These efforts on language learning using pictures were limited to colors, animals, birds, vehicles and common noun categories. In this paper, we present our research that learning of verbs is also possible by using right set of pictures and gestures, and we show th...

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos 1, , Ana Inês Oliveira , Roberto Ratti , Damjan Demsar , Fabiano Baldo , Toni Jarimo 6 1 New University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL, [email protected] 2 UNINOVA, PORTUGAL, [email protected] 3 TXT Solutions, ITALY, [email protected] 4 Jozef Stefan Institute, SLOVENIA, [email protected] 5 Federal University of Santa Catarina, BRAZIL, [email protected] 6 VTT Technical Research C...

This study seeks to explore attributes affecting the level of tourist satisfaction with and loyalty towards theatrical performance in China. Based on four focus group discussions with 31 participants, the study identifies 34 attributes that affect the level of tourist satisfaction with theatrical performance, and groups them into five categories: stage, performance, venue, service, and tourist-...