The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are differences among visitors to a destination based on their golfing frequency in the previous year. In this study, profiles of golfers to a destination, based on their golfing frequency, are created. By constructing a framework for understanding the golf traveller, golf and tourism industry representatives can better understand the cont...

Tourism is currently one of the world’s fastest growing industries (Cluster Consortium,1999). The phenomenal growth of tourism worldwide has led to tourism becoming big business and highly considered by governments as part of their developmental strategies. Tourism is able to create local jobs, empowers communities and distribute income are some of the reasons that both private and public secto...

Policy makers and tourism developers must understand visitors’ mobility behavior and how they consume space and tourism resources in order to set up sustainable cultural tourism destinations. With this in mind, it should also be pointed out that the mobility patterns of tourists in urban destinations are mainly located in the city center (spatial centrality), the analysis of which enables us to...

extended abstract 1. introduction rural tourism can be defined as the ‘country experience’ which encompasses a wide range of attractions and activities that take place in agricultural or non-urban areas. its essential characteristics include wide-open spaces, low levels of tourism development, and opportunities for visitors to directly experience agricultural and/or natural environments. in the...

Tourists are increasingly more experienced and demanding and seek a wide range of experiences. They wish to broaden their horizon or feel enriched by engaging in new and specific sports activities. Therefore, sport in the modern tourism has not only a perceptual role, but it is also important contents of stay, and frequently the main motive for travelling to a certain tourist destination. In so...

XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development Moscow, April 2-5, 2013 Abstract A tourism destination is a complex dynamic system. As such it requires specific methods and tools to be analyzed and understood in order to better tailor governance and policy measures for steering the destination along an evolutionary growth path. Many proposals have been put forward...

• Recent empirical studies suggest that, in the best cases, between a fifth and one-third of total tourist turnover in the destination is captured by the ‘poor’. • Tourism can have important pro-poor impacts and these can be strengthened by deliberate public policy interventions. • Tourism can affect the poor via three, quite different pathways. But there is not a single destination where pover...

Irresponsible travel has the potential to harm both the traveler and the host destination. The subject of responsible travel is a major focus of the International Society of Travel Medicine, whose Responsible Travel special interest group has been very active in providing leadership for travel medicine practitioners in relation to the protection of local travel destination communities. Healthca...

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sources of economic growth at the local level, it is crucial to identify and assess the relevant determinants of tourism flows. This paper investigates this issue by carrying out an econometric analysis of tourism flows for the 107 Italian provinces based on the origin-destination (OD) spatial interaction models, which fully account for the spati...