Medical tourism has been emerged due to the trend of healthcare mobility among different countries. In fact it is a new type of healthcare mobility (1, 2) since not only it involves the clinical services, but also other non-clinical services are likely to be essential and also it is highly affected by cultural factors (3). Eastern countries or developing countries are mostly the main destinatio...

Research dealing with the motives of sports tourists from a marketer’s perspective remains underdeveloped. This chapter describes the phenomenon of sports tourism and aspires to examine with an empirical study the motives of winter and summer sports tourists. The first sample (n=339) was comprised of active as well as passive summer sports tourists. The second sample (n=477) only focused on act...

This paper introduces the special issue on slum-tourism with a reflection on the state of the art on this new area of tourism research. After a review of the literature we discuss the breaths of research that was presented at the conference „Destination Slum‟, the first international conference on slumtourism. Identifying various dimensions as well as similarities and differences of slum touris...

In this paper, we propose an approach for constructing clusters of related terms that may be used for deriving formal conceptual structures in a later stage. In contrast to previous approaches in this direction, we explicitly take into account the fact that words can have different, possibly even unrelated, meanings. To account for such ambiguities in word meaning, we consider two alternative s...

Accessible tourism focuses mainly on inclusive tourism or tourism for all. Accessible tourism enforces mainly barrier free environment in all the 3A’s of tourism. Constraints of many kinds inhibit people with disabilities and reduced mobility from enjoying the travel experiences. This article assorts the research work on accessible tourism in Tamil Nadu, India. Accessible Tourism is accessible ...

eTourism services are increasingly changing the nature of and processes in the tourism industry. The aim of this paper is to address the implications of e-tourism services in the tourism industry. The main areas of concern are a combination of technical and social issues, which need to be addressed in order the tourism industry to adopt eTourism services. We present the current trends of eTouri...

By analyzing the economy and technology background of appearance of tourism e-business, the paper describe the concept of tourism ebusiness and it’s operation mode in order to master this modern alternative deeply and all-round. The author emphasizes on the discussion of the interpromotion and inter-development relationship between e-business and tourism economy, meanwhile forecasts the future ...

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has leaded to irreversible trend to change the industry structure and business strategy in travel and tourism in the past decades. In China, smart tourism has been one of the most important issues of travel and tourism industry. In this paper, we firstly introduce the structure and technologies of smart tourism system, and then discuss government and e...

Smart tourism is a new buzzword applied to describe the increasing reliance of tourism destinations, their industries and their tourists on emerging forms of ICT that allow for massive amounts of data to be transformed into value propositions. However, it remains ill-defined as a concept, which hinders its theoretical development. The paper defines smart tourism, sheds light on current smart to...

This paper suggests that the investigation of tourism-induced seasonal retirement migration can shed new light on issues of anti-tourism, social distinction, and authenticity. Interviews conducted with Swedish retirees, spending their summers in Sweden and their winters in Spain, showed that anti-tourism may involve distinctions from devalued forms of tourism, and also distinctions based on dif...