Currently, ‘dark tourism’ is gaining popularity as a new tourism concept. Dark tourism is different from simple leisure, and its purpose is based on the succession of local grief or praying for dead people. ICT can be made more effective by optimising the potential of dark tourism. In this study, dark tourism will be analysed in terms of ICT.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic and unprecedented impact on the tourism sector, drastically reducing flows and, therefore, revenues of businesses in this sector. International, regional local travel restrictions immediately affected national economies, including systems, international travel, domestic tourism, air transport, public accommodation, restaurants, festivals, sports events e...

Purpose – The tourism industry service network (TISN) is considered to be one of the largest components of tourism in the modern Vietnamese economy. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is currently developing a long-term plan to diversify the country’s tourism industry and to improve the destination image of Vietnam. To successfully implement this plan, the Vietnamese tourism ...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, international mobility was largely restricted, which led severe declines in tourism activities. This paper estimates economic impacts of this decline Turkey and Hungary, using social accounting matrix modeling. The authors constructed matrices separately estimated macroeconomic impact decline. results reveal that revenues reduced GDP by 2.6% 5.9% with 0.9% 2.0% los...

The paper firstly analyzed the status quo of Chinese industrial tourism development by studying “First National Industrial and Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Sites”. On this basis, suggestions were put forward for future development. The paper thought that making clear the relationship between industry and tourism, fully utilizing enterprises’ distinctive resources, applying the concept of ...

the main purpose of the study is to examine the causal relationship between government revenues and expenditures of the jordan government over the period from 1990 to 2011 using granger causality and vecm tests methodology. which provides channels of causation between government revenues (gr) and government expenditures (ge).the empirical results show that bidirectional causality running betwee...

In recent years, healthy tourism has been attracting more consumers. Lately, many people have moved towards a healthy lifestyle and this has major implications on tourism. More and more people decided to choose destinations that can provide wellness and medical facilities. Healthy tourism became a good alternative to conventional tourism. People who want to improve their health and wellbeing ch...

JULIE PEROVIC International Air Transport Association (IATA) The aviation industry supports tourism and international business by providing the world’s only rapid worldwide transportation network. Airlines transported 2.8 billion passengers and 47.6 million metric tonnes of air cargo in 2011, connecting the world’s cities with 36,000 routes.1 By providing these services, the aviation industry p...

The Tourism Company is a UK-based tourism consultancy working in the field of tourism research, planning, development and marketing, with a specialism in rural tourism, ecotourism and protected areas.

SUMMARY Developing countries have been attracting more international patients by building state-of-the-art facilities and offering sought-after healthcare services at a fraction of the cost of the US healthcare system. These price differentials matter most for elective procedures, including cosmetic surgeries, which are paid for out of pocket. It is unclear how this rise in medical tourism will...