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...

Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of Internet and e-commerce technologies in the tourism industry. The tourism industry is one of the most important that contribute to Thailand’s economic growth. The Thai government has promoted e-strategies in the tourism industry for economic reform. Although the government has encouraged the use of Internet technology for effective communicat...

The research paper investigates the behaviour of tourism alumni at the transition from tourism education market to tourism labour market and from tourism labour market to other labour markets. The paper focuses especially on the decisions of tourism graduates to enter in the tourism labour market as "stayer" or to exit the tourism industry as "mover". The first part commences with some facts an...

The Maldives, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), has seen a rapid development of its tourism industry over the last 35 years with visitor numbers rising from 1062 visitors per year in 1972 through to over 600,000 today. Both in popular conception and reality the Maldives relies on its marine life and beaches to sustain a tourism industry that contributes over 30% of total GDP. However, the...

Williams (2011), " Service dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: the co-production of innovation in the hotel industry " , Tourism Abstract This paper introduces the concept of service-dominant logic as a research paradigm in marketing management. It does so in the context of tourism management " s need to engage with wider debates within the mainstream management literatu...

tourism industry is emerging as a new era, one of the main pillars of the economy, the business world. many planners and policy makers in the development of the tourism industry as the main pillars of sustainable development are mentioned. in this direction, this research inspired by these changes and therefore social indicators such as social capital, sense of place, and so on programming usin...

Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and is a source of jobs across national and regional economies. Assessing the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism development has become a major activity within the tourism and sustainable development communities. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the contribution of system dynamics for analysing policies that can n...

Tourism in general has become one of the major cultural and economic forces in the world today, and is regarded as an important means to benefi t local communities. Phuket for example has experienced tremendous development since 1980s. Many construction projects are carried out on the islands with only one purpose: to accommodate tourism development. Rapid investments by the government and priv...

With the economic development and the improvement of residents' income level, China’s tourism industry is now entering into a new historical period. In this paper, we construct an empirical analysis model about urban residents’ rural travelling decision-making, and then analyze influential factors mechanism by using logistic regression model. Based on the analysis of rural travelling decision-m...

Tourism is viewed as information intensive industry where information plays an important role for decision and action making. Austria, along with its long history on music, culture, and nature, unsurprisingly attracts lots of tourist and Austrian tourism industry contributes significantly to the local economy. Semantic technologies open up new ways of facilitating effective integration of (tour...