Tamborine Mountain is a 25 square kilometre plateau located within the urban-rural fringe of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Renowned for its superb climate, spectacular views, lush farmland and subtropical rainforest, Tamborine Mountain offers a wide variety of nature-based tourism activities such as bushwalking, rainforest appreciation and wine tasting. This phenomenon requires the har...

Intelligent systems sense their environment and learn from the actions they implement to reach specific goals. They are increasingly used to support tourist information search and decision making as well as work processes. In order to model the tourism domain, these systems require a profound understanding of its nature. Looking at existing literature in tourism, this paper discusses critical g...

Society is at a critical juncture in its relationship with the natural environment, a relationship in which tourism has growing significance. Yet, twenty years after the Brundtland Report, environmental policy has to date had little influence upon the workings of the tourism market, the supply and demand elements of which determine the ‘use’ or ‘non-use’ of nature. Inherent to the market is its...

Background: Health tourism uses a set of services that promote the health and spirit of individuals through weather, nature, or medical care. Entrepreneurship is a process of exploring and using value creation opportunities in the economic, cultural, social, and health sectors. The present study aimed to investigate the development of Iran’s health tourism system based on Stevensonchr('39')s en...

This paper estimates the demand for nature based tourist visits to Zambia and the willingness of international tourists to pay to visit Zambia using a single site individual travel cost model. The model estimated is corrected for both truncation of the dependent variable and endogenous stratification that arises due to on-site sampling. We find a negative binomial specification provides stable ...

Novel solutions to conserve biodiversity whilst allowing for resource harvesting are urgently needed. In marine systems, Territorial User Rights for Fisheries (TURFs) are promoted to enable sustainable use of resources. We investigate the potential for synergies between nature-based tourism and TURFs on Chile's central coast. Of 135 recreational divers surveyed, 77% indicated that the fish spec...

tourism is an important tool for development in the world. many countries attention to their policies and programs, to continue the development of tourism as an effective tool in political, cultural and economic developments. this study discusses the identification of key factors believable and optimal future in the future of hamadan province's regional tourism. the study, in terms of func...

Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan guna mendeskripsikan mengenai strategi kepariwisataan hutan pinus mentaos sebagai kawasan wisata alam edukasi. menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data seperti observasi, wawancara serta dokumen yang diperlukan. Hasil penelitian bertujuan untuk menjadikan rekreasi dan belajar bagi masyarakat umum melepas penat atau hanya bersantai. Letak I Banjar...