This paper reports on the development of a novel mixed reality I/O device tailored to the requirements of interaction with geo-spatial data in the immediate environment of the user. The I/O device is suitable for expert and casual users, integrates with existing applications using spatial data and can be used for a variety of applications that require geo-visualization including urban planning,...

The paper focuses on the tourism development strategy of the Amur Oblast called “Twin Cities”. Said initiative became the first attempt of the Russian Far Eastern regions to create the hospitality industry towards Chinese tourists in the Sino-Russian borderlands. Bringing together such sub-disciplines as border tourism, urban planning and territorial development helps to find out the peculiarit...

Tourism is often claimed to be a major employment-creator and a viable path to development in rural areas. With the exception of the most sparsely populated areas, this is supported by Danish data for the overall growth in the number of enterprises and jobs, covering the period 1981-1994. The paper demonstrates and discusses the dynamics of regional tourism development in terms of the establish...

A study was undertaken to establish how visiting tourists to Samoa perceived free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) and their management, additionally some factors that influence their perceptions were assessed. Questionnaires were administered to 281 tourists across Samoa over 5 weeks. Free-roaming dogs were seen by 98.2% (n = 269/274) of respondents, with 64.9% (n = 137/211) reporting that thei...

Much has been written about the rise of the local food movement in urban and suburban areas. This essay tackles an emerging outgrowth of that movement: the growing desire of urban and suburban dwellers to engage rural areas where food is produced not only to obtain food but also as a means of tourism and cultural activity. This represents a potentially much-needed means of economic development ...

The article presents the main demographic and social, as well as functional and spatial changes that took place in Colditz after 1990. The town is inhabited by 4,870 people (2009) and is situated in Saxony, in the area of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aim of the article is to present the main changes, which took place there after East and West Germany reunited in 1990. The au...

The creation of virtual urban environments, corresponding to realworld settings, has become a very frequent subject of content development for Virtual Reality Systems, serving multiple activities such as urban planning, virtual tourism and education, among others. Their extensive and complex nature, however, makes their conception very expensive and time-consuming, which has led many researcher...