In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

Medical tourism is a practice where individuals cross international borders in order to access medical care. This practice can impact the global distribution of health workers by potentially reducing the emigration of health workers from destination countries for medical tourists and affecting the internal distribution of these workers. Little has been said, however, about the impacts of medica...

Planning and implementing strategies to develop tourism has long been a priority issue for policy makers and decision makers: hence, a remarkable interest for quantitative methods aimed to assess the extent to which possible modifications of some determinants can affect the tourism flows of the destination country. Over the last decades, indeed, in Italy as well as in many other destinations wo...

The environmental quality of destination has become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical differentiation in the accommodation industry, where differentiation is associated with quality. Additionally, we assume the existence of a lump sum tax in the accommodation industry. Two are the main results which will be proved in th...

The paper positions the passenger sea ports in the context of cruise tourism on the basis of e-services they offer. The e-services of eleven passenger ports are categorized and then quantitatively evaluated by binary and ranking approaches. In general, the port e-services might be categorized according to their functionality as navigational, ship and passenger-related ones, logistics, business,...

The present paper aims to assess the importance of different factors influencing demand conditions for a tourist destination on the basis of individual stakeholder perceptions. The relationship between the tourist demand conditions and individual influential factors, such as inherited resources, created resources, supporting factors and resources, destination management and situational conditio...

in spite rapid and increasing growth of international tourism industry and its importance in economy countries in the world (globe), unfortunately iran could not yet benefited from the economic advantages of this section and could not yet obtained a considerable share from its foreign currency. regarding the important role of the tourism in the world trade, and earning of about 10 percent (10%)...

The environmental quality of destination has become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical differentiation in the accommodation industry, where differentiation is associated with quality. Additionally, we assume the existence of a lump sum tax in the accommodation industry. Two are the main results which will be proved in th...

In academia as well in the industry there is currently an increasing interest in the concept of smart tourism destination. Specifically, it has been widely underlined the relevant role that ICTs, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing exert in providing instruments and platforms that can facilitate the dissemination of information and knowledge among stakeholders, thus enhancing innovation and ...

Blogs and forums related to travel and tourism have become quite popular in the last years. Travellers use them to share their experiences with other travellers and the whole Web community. Content produced in this way can give an invaluable support in developing and improving tourism products. The number of travel blogs, forums and entries has exploded in recent years. This leads to the uncomf...