Coastal areas are among the most densely populated zones worldwide and at the same time subjected to rapid environmental changes due to their land-sea interface locations. The phenomenal growth of coastal tourism in the last few decades, especially in the tropical countries, has created environmental havocs by drastically altering the local ecological milieu in which the indigenous communities ...

Much research has been devoted to quantifying optimal or unacceptable climate conditions both generally and for specific tourism segments or activities over the last 10 years. This knowledge is not incorporated in the Tourism Climate Index (TCI), which has also been subject to other substantial critiques. To more accurately assess the climatic suitability of destinations for leisure tourism, th...

Çalışmanın çıkış noktası kapitalizm ve mekân ilişkisidir. Bu arka plan dahilinde çalışma, kentlerin üretim mekânından tüketim mekanına dönüştüğü tarihsel bağlamda kentsel turizme odaklanmaktadır. makalenin amacı, turizmin gelişimi odaklı hale gelmeleri arasındaki ilişkinin açıklanmasıdır. Sanayisizleşme süreçleri sonrasında yönelimle beraber kentler gelmişlerdir. süreçte kendisinin de metalaştı...

World Tourism Organisation estimates an 80% drop in tourist arrivals by the end of 2020. The Polish tourism industry is also dramatically affected ongoing pandemic, with a 30% number tourists July 2020 compared to 2019. global lockdown has limited functioning sector, therefore domestic tourism, including urban may rise importance. Domestic can become useful response growing resilience industry,...

In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland i...

This paper identifies which information about tourists serves as the best predictor of their pro-environmental behavior at home and on vacation. If a small set of predictors can be identified, the tourism industry would be able to use them to focus attention on attracting tourists with smaller environmental footprints. Results from a survey asking respondents about pro-environmental behavior in...