During the last two decades, tourism policies in Spain have had as a priority objective the diversification and differentiation of tourist destinations, together with the improvement of service and infrastructure quality levels as the best strategies to guarantee the competitiveness of tourism activity. Although Spain has managed to maintain its leadership as a sun and sand tourist destination,...

During the 18th century, raising the "nezumi" rodent became so prevalent in Japan that two guidebooks were published on the topic. The first guidebook was entitled Yoso-tama-no-kakehashi (1775) and the second was entitled Chinganso-date-gusa (1787). It remains unclear in these texts whether the term nezumi was used to refer to the rat (Rattus norvegicus) or the mouse (Mus musculus). In this rev...

Agent-based simulation is a technology which is being used as a decision support tool for recreation managers to better plan the development of tourist destinations in the face of increasing tourist numbers. Agent-based simulation for national park management is a developing field of research. A number of projects have been undertaken, applying the technology to a range of park scenarios. These...

Members of the Tourist family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are very abundant among a wide variety of plants, are frequently found associated with normal plant genes, and thus are thought to be important players in the organization and evolution of plant genomes. In Arabidopsis, the recent discovery of a Tourist member harboring a putative transposase has shed new l...

INTRODUCTION The focus of this chapter is on understanding the tourist experience of Canberra, Australia’s capital city, particularly within its main parliamentary precinct. This precinct possesses both political and touristic significance, as it encompasses a set of major national institutions amongst which are eight of the city’s ten most visited sites. The tourist experience is theorised thr...

Structured overlays provide a basic substrate for many peer-to-peer systems. Existing structured overlays can be classified into two categories, O(logN)-hop ones and O(1)-hop ones. The former are suitable for large and dynamic systems, while the latter are suitable for small or stable ones. However, for the lack of adaptivity, it is difficult for a peer-to-peer system designer to choose from th...

This study uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to study the dynamic determinant factors that influence both long and short-term international tourism demand in Cambodia from 12 countries. The annual time series data (1994–2013) are used in this study. The study finds that only the international tourism demand model of Australia, Canada, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and USA are...

International tourism is an important source of service exports to Spain and its regions, particularly the Balearic Islands. Tourism is the major industry in the Balearic Islands, accounting for about 85% of GDP (see Riera, 2003). This paper examines the time series properties of international tourism demand to the Balearic Islands. The data set comprises monthly figures from two leading touris...