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...

For many alpine areas in Switzerland, winter tourism is the most important source of income, and snow-reliability is one of the key elements of the offers made by tourism in the Alps. 85% of Switzerland's current ski resorts can be designated as snow-reliable. If climate change occurs, the level of snow-reliability will rise from 1200 m up to 1800 m over the next few decades. Only 44% of the sk...

Knowledge dissemination among tourism stakeholders is vital to the overall development of tourism. Yet, this topic has been under-investigated in past tourism literature. Taking the courses on tourism marketing as an example, this study examined what and how knowledge is being disseminated in the classroom. Based on the Sender-Message-Channel-Receiver (SMCR) model (Shannon, 1948), the current s...

Tourism is becoming more and more important in the global economy, and its longterm prosperity is desired by every tourism destination. Prosperity, however, cannot be achieved successfully without the involvement of those influenced by the industry, so, evaluating residents’ perceptions of tourism and involving them in as many aspects of planning and policymaking as possible are important steps...

Sustainable ecological tourism is the ultimate goal of ecological tourism. To realize the sustainable development of ecological tourism it is a thorny problem. This paper takes the world geological park in Xinwen for evaluation object, according to the sustainable development of ecological tourism evaluation model, using analytic hierarchy process, expert evaluation method, the multi-objective ...

This paper discusses the importance of institutional knowledge and cooperation in the Danish tourism industry. In Danish tourism there is a need for further development both of products, processes and organisations. As the tourism industry is dominated by SMEs, actors outside the firm may play an import role for future development. The actors outside the firm are a heterogeneous group consistin...