Purpose – The tourism industry service network (TISN) is considered to be one of the largest components of tourism in the modern Vietnamese economy. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is currently developing a long-term plan to diversify the country’s tourism industry and to improve the destination image of Vietnam. To successfully implement this plan, the Vietnamese tourism ...

The paper firstly analyzed the status quo of Chinese industrial tourism development by studying “First National Industrial and Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Sites”. On this basis, suggestions were put forward for future development. The paper thought that making clear the relationship between industry and tourism, fully utilizing enterprises’ distinctive resources, applying the concept of ...

The article examines the problems of tourism development in Ukraine, with particular emphasis on rural tourism. need for economic revival areas combined growing sustainable and European integration, has created a new challenge as potential tool achieving these important goals at same time. become priority national policies and/or strategies many countries world. This presents proposals promotin...

In recent years, healthy tourism has been attracting more consumers. Lately, many people have moved towards a healthy lifestyle and this has major implications on tourism. More and more people decided to choose destinations that can provide wellness and medical facilities. Healthy tourism became a good alternative to conventional tourism. People who want to improve their health and wellbeing ch...

The Tourism Company is a UK-based tourism consultancy working in the field of tourism research, planning, development and marketing, with a specialism in rural tourism, ecotourism and protected areas.

SUMMARY Developing countries have been attracting more international patients by building state-of-the-art facilities and offering sought-after healthcare services at a fraction of the cost of the US healthcare system. These price differentials matter most for elective procedures, including cosmetic surgeries, which are paid for out of pocket. It is unclear how this rise in medical tourism will...

This paper examines the grid of sentiment that structures medical travel to India. In contrast to studies that render emotion as ancillary, the paper argues that affect is fundamental to medical travel's ability to ease the linked somatic, emotional, financial, and political injuries of being ill 'back home'. The ethnographic approach follows the scenes of medical travel within the Indian corpo...

and New Zealand (3–5,7). We were unable to confi rm the original source of these isolates, and continuous surveillance for carbapenemase producers in our hospital has not uncovered any blaOXA-181–positive isolates since 1996. To our knowledge, there are no reports of blaOXA-181– positive isolates in Bangladesh. However, this country borders India, which is a source of blaOXA-181–positive Entero...

The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (BVTC), a state designated council to promote tourism in the Blackstone Valley, Rhode Island, has led tourism development efforts for two decades to revitalize the economics and livability of place. This study examines the perception of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in juxtaposition to the macro-regional level of tourism development as lead by the BVT...