Tourism businesses operate globally and many have opted for a competitive advantage of internationalization. Technology, information and reduction of boundaries have created new forms of service companies, not only the large multinational corporations, but also small niche specialists. The growing importance of strategic alliances in creating networks of business relationships has become a tren...

The problem of destination accessibility is a vital concern in the sustainable tourism development in the emerging regions due to the increasing numbers of tourism business growth in the recent times. Tourism is one of the potential foreign exchange earning sectors, which place sustainability as one of the main success metrics for benchmarking the industry’s overall development. On the other ha...

Destinations differ in the modalities of coordination and collaboration, the intensity of interactions, local tourism supply organization and skill sets, technological structure, and, more generally, on the e-Readiness of the entire system. These features may affect the viability and success of destination management systems (DMS). This article argues that for successful embarkation in e-Busine...

We examined where midlife and older adults with a mobility disability accessed food outside the home in King County, Washington, USA, how they travelled to these food destinations, and facilitators and barriers to food access using qualitative interviews. Thirty-five adults aged ≥50 years with a mobility disability (defined as use of an assistive device for mobility) were interviewed. Supplemen...

In Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET), the mobility of nodes is a challenging issue for designers. There are lots of possibilities of mobile scenarios in this kind of network. The source, destinations and intermediate nodes may not be using the same mobile scenarios. In this study, three mobile scenarios are taken in consideration and these scenarios are source mobility, destinations mobility and in...

The availability of a large national data set of accessibility indicators allows investigation of the relationship between mobility and access to, and choice of, key destinations for the population of England. The destinations considered are primary and secondary schools, further education colleges, family doctors, hospitals, food stores, and places of employment. For the populations of 353 loc...

Tourism destinations are difficult to manage due to the complex relationships of their diverse public and private stakeholders. At the same time strategic marketing efforts are important for destinations to foster positive consequences of tourism, particularly given the range of opportunities and challenges created by the emergence of social media that destinations can use advantageously. This ...