Sichuan has abundant tourist resources; the Government confirmed the tourism industry as the six pillar industries of the cross-century development in Sichuan. In recent years, the ratio of tourism to the province's GDP increased year by year. Based on stability test of the VAR model, this paper uses impulse response functions and variance decomposition method for econometric analysis, by using...

E-business has become a new growth point of current economic development in the world. The natural adaptability between tourism and E-business gives birth to tourism E-business. The tourism resources in Shanxi are unique, yet its tourism development level and the abundant resources are not harmonious. To transform its resource advantage into economic advantage, developing tourism E-business is ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Prefecture-level administrative units Spatial spillover effect Urban economic growth Urban economic convergence The present study investigates the effect of tourism and its spatial correlation on urban economic growth. The study examines 272 prefecture-level administrative units between 2002 and 2011 in China as the sample and a β convergence model as the frame. ...

introduction: policy makers and decision makers of medical tourism must identify stakeholders who can be affected by and can affect this industry and determine their status for partnership. the aim of this study was to identify and analyze the main stakeholders of medical tourism in isfahan, and provide strategies for developing this industry. methods: a qualitative study was conducted in 2011....

this paper intends to identify and assess ecotourism potentials of different areas in maranjab desert, kashan district. the research is an applied one, and a descriptive-analytical research. both documentary and field studies have been adopted for data collection and thus identification and prioritization of areas with the highest potential for ecotourism development within the desert district ...

this study aims to investigate the effective factors on non-development of tourism industry in golestan province. the standard questionnaires are used to doing this descriptive, cross-sectional and tentative that those be scattered after measuring their validity and reliability based on simple-random sampling(for tourists) and taxonomy-sampling(for experts) between tourists and experts. the ana...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between tourism development and economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in a multivariate model, using panel data for the period 1995–2012. The study adopts a panel Granger causality analysis approach to assess the contribution of tourism to economic growth in GCC countries as a whole, and in each ind...

1. introduction development of tourism activities is one of the important topics in sustainable development and it has been introduced as a dynamic and growing industry. so, providing a suitable platform for identifying tourist attractions and planning for development them is an essential issue. also, recognition of these attractions and natural talents in each region in order to make proper pl...