Background. Semarang City tourism site is a means to market the business industry has not been managed properly. The niche on website shown complete description of actual conditions digital collection preservation effort. This study aims analyze content websites in City. purpose this research describe excellence when filled with and attractive content.Methodology. analysis uses descriptive qual...

Culture and heritage have been increasingly recognised as means of sustainable social and economic development and an important element of tourist motivation. However, the recent development of cultural tourism indicates the problem of massification, offering conventional products based on serial reproductions of culture. Due to factors such as globalisation and the importance of cultural diver...

The Internet can be a powerful cross-cultural incoming tourism communication tool if used in a proper way. Visitor images of destinations are important drivers of consumer choice and therefore, how destinations provide information to visitors is critically important to image formation. This text first looks at the general features of Internet as a cross-culture communication tool in tourism, ba...

Gao, Yuan. M.S.I.E., Purdue University. December 2014. Application of Bayesian Networks in Consumer Service Industry. Major Professor: Vincent G. Duffy. The purpose of the present study is to explore the application of Bayesian networks in the consumer service industry to model causal relationships within complex risk factor structures using aggregate data. An analysis of the Hawaii tourism mar...

Tourism businesses are operating in an increasingly turbulent environment and are being forced to react to extreme circumstances that are outside of their control. This paper examines the affects of SARS on tourism enterprises in China through a national survey of hotels, travel agencies and other tourism-related businesses. While all types of enterprises were adversely affected, it is shown th...

As the pilgrims and tourists have been always present in Mashhad, meeting their needs has been constantly prioritized in urban planning especially the renewal and reconstruction projects carried out in the holy shrine surroundings. However, recent years have seen a change of perspective toward pilgrims. These changes have been induced by both global and national politics. That is why great chan...

Expansion of urban tourism in historic districts in European cities is putting increasing pressure on these areas as places to live. In Amsterdam, an ever-growing number of tourists visit the famous canal district, which also forms the home of a group of long-term, upper-middle-class residents. While such residents are generally depicted as instigators of urban transformation, in this case, the...

The performance of commercial websites is a critical issue that has a significant effect on consumers’ online decision-making. This study develops and applies a fuzzy model to assess the performance of hotel websites. It presents a fuzzy decision-making approach to the evaluation of tourism website performance that integrates consumer perceptions with a hierarchical model. The model consists of...

Introduction: Health tourism industry is growing in border provinces of the country, especially in the areas where tourists feel more comfortable as a result of distance from stressful urban life. This research was done to promote Health Tourism Industry in Ardabil. Methods: This is an analytic study. The data were gathered by means of library technique f...