Tourism plays an important role in the economies of many countries. Tourism can secure employment, foreign exchange earnings, investment and regional development. To attract more tourists and local visitors, many stakeholders such as natural parks, museums, art galleries, hotels and restaurants provide personalised services to meet individual needs. With the increasing number of tourists comes ...

Recent surveys suggest tens of thousands of elephants are being poached annually across Africa, putting the two species at risk across much of their range. Although the financial motivations for ivory poaching are clear, the economic benefits of elephant conservation are poorly understood. We use Bayesian statistical modelling of tourist visits to protected areas, to quantify the lost economic ...

The paper focuses on the tourism development strategy of the Amur Oblast called “Twin Cities”. Said initiative became the first attempt of the Russian Far Eastern regions to create the hospitality industry towards Chinese tourists in the Sino-Russian borderlands. Bringing together such sub-disciplines as border tourism, urban planning and territorial development helps to find out the peculiarit...

The limits of tourism development-the problem Despite many examples of inappropriate tourism development around the world, several destinations are still trapped by an almost inevitable vicious circle which destroys the very essence of tourism. Tourism is supposedly developed in order to improve the prosperity of local people at destinations, mainly through stimulating their local economy. Howe...

451 Address correspondence to Nikolaos Pappas, London School of Hospitality and Tourism, University of West London, Ealing, W5 5RF, London, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Cheng, & Qin, 2013, p. 245). The hosting of events has an impact on long-term tourism, and it benefits the local economy and its host population by job creation, income generation, investment attraction, extension of th...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...