Ecotourism is a sub-component of the field of sustainable tourism. Ecotourism’s perceived potential as an effective tool for sustainable development is the main reason why developing countries are now embracing it and including it in their economic development and conservation strategies. Ecotourism, as an alternative tourism, involves visiting natural areas in order to learn, to study, or to c...

In China, tourism is being actively developed and is evolving towards a more openeconomy form. Coastal tourism is encouraged but has come into conflict with other uses and sustainable development is an issue. Dachangshan Dao, the second largest island in the Changshan island group in Liaoning Province, off the Yellow Sea, provides an opportunity to assess one form of island tourism under develo...

This article reports on the impact of managerial autonomy and strategic control on organizational politics and show how the latter influence effectiveness of strategic planning. In doing so, it outlines particular directions that a rebalanced strategic management research agenda may take. Whereas organizational politics have received sustained interest in the management literature, its conceptu...

the internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. according to world tourism organization, about 95% of web users use the internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism web sites when planning for vacations. the number of people turning to the internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more t...

Sports tourism has become a primary catalyst for tourism activity with a range of researchers noting the growing recognition of the inherent relationship between sport and tourism over the last decade or so. Importantly, sport tourism is a significant and growing global industry with notable economic implications for the specific sport and/or the event as well as there being a variety of flow-o...

Community involvement is emerging as a key element of both sustainable tourism and ecotourism. Community involvement in decision-making and residents’ receipt of benefits from tourism is expected to play a vital role in sustainable tourism as well as preservation and conservation of biodiversity. Local communities living in the forest areas of Dandeli suffered a great neglect economically in th...

451 Address correspondence to Nikolaos Pappas, London School of Hospitality and Tourism, University of West London, Ealing, W5 5RF, London, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Cheng, & Qin, 2013, p. 245). The hosting of events has an impact on long-term tourism, and it benefits the local economy and its host population by job creation, income generation, investment attraction, extension of th...

In this paper, the authors present a systematic and comprehensive analysis of scenario methods in the integrated planning of nautical port and marina sites. The subject of research is nautical ports and marinas as facilities having the greatest importance for nautical tourism development and for boaters. The optimum scenario for their development is determined, and marina carrying capacity is i...

— The web-based technologies have become a strategic necessity for tourism organizations. Through switching to online services, tourism organizations are achieving better positions in the digital-based competitive market. The Chinese tourism industry is investing in the development of a ‘Golden Tourism Project’ which includes tourism E-commerce website development and evaluation as one of main ...