abstract in the current decade the third world's countries are using of development rural tourism approach to improve indexes of development. in iran due to multiplicity of rural area using of this strategy is important. analysis the condition of host area for achieving positive tourism impacts is necessary. in this paper, the challenges and opportunities on developing rural tourism is distingu...

ecotourism has a close relationship with environment, so a deserving evaluation of environmental potentials can lead to improvement of plans and prevention of failure in tourism development, and avoids unexpected damages to environment. this study tries to investigate and evaluate the environmental potential of khansar in order to develop tourism in this area. khansar has many different capabil...

an urban regeneration project is defined as a series of actions determined to accomplish urban regeneration aims that lead to reduce the problems of an area via improving the socioeconomic, physical and environmental conditions. today, urban regeneration is one of key principles in act of planning and it is beyond the urban renewal, urban redevelopment or urban rehabilitation processes because ...

Novelty is often depicted as the essence of travelling and gaining attention in tourism literature. However, understanding novelty diverse, with multiple theoretical perspectives a lack consensus regarding its definition conceptualisation. This study integrates different presents an extended analysis progress tourism, both chronologically thematically. The findings indicate three thematic clust...

We were interested to read Priya Shetty’s World Report examining the booming medical tourism industry in India (Aug 28, p 671). The Lancet is to be commended for bringing attention to this issue. It is of the utmost importance that trends in medical tourism be watched closely given the implications for patients’ health and safety and for health systems more broadly. Shetty places significant fo...

This essay explores how concepts of value and cheapness circulate around the bodies of clients of the Johannesburg-based cosmetic surgery tourism company Surgeon and Safari. I show how the production of a luxurious experience and the mitigation of risk take place within a transnational network enabled by the presence of medical tourism in multiple locales. By placing Surgeon and Safari's activi...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to appraisal the prose and cone of Shiraz City in terms of its potential in the context of health tourism. METHODS The statistical sample included medical and health tourism sector in the city of Shiraz in the northwest of Fars Province, south of Iran. The efficient authorities on the topic were identified through the hospitals engaging in medical t...