Irrespective of insights gained from previous studies on the impacts and adaptions associated with climate change; little consideration has been given to the effect of climate change on tourism on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Based on a conceptual framework of the impact of climate change on tourism in high-altitude regions; this paper reviews the literature pertaining to the effects of c...

The travel and tourism sector has emerged as one of the most important sectors for developing as well as developed countries. Tourism incorporates many of the features of the information society such as globalization, mobility and information richness. People from all nations, social rank, professions are potential tourists. Tourism links a worldwide supplier community with consumers, equally d...

We are interested in an original real-world problem coming from tourism field. We describe a modelling of the problem and propose a first approach that mixes knowledge management and operational research methods. Our algorithms have been implemented in order to produce tourism solutions that are not unique for a given request but that take into account the preferences of the tourist user and pr...

background:environment destroyed and reduce the living place especially in urban place  become an important mater these days ,improving environment need a lot of think together like economic, realigns and environment  changes ,urban tourism is one of the most  important and complicate behavior in town. objective: in researchers look tourism have a large effect on economic, realign and social be...

In Thailand, any form of tourism that is associated with local and/or indigenous communities is treated as community-based tourism, regardless whether they have actively participated in its development and management and/or if the communities have collectively benefitted from it. Furthermore, community-based tourism is often referred to by several terms, which are used with neither distinction ...

Cloud computing provides a variety of cloud services and has been used by more and more travellers. It’s also a promising infrastructure which provides computation and storage resources as services. This research paper provides an approach on how to use Cloud computing in e-tourism, focusing on the implementation need and benefits. It also presents the architecture of e-tourism management syste...

Ecotourism presents a small segment of nature-tourism, which is understood as travelling to relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated natural areas (Gőssling, 1999). According to the World Wildlife Fund, in 1995 nature-tourism consisted of 15% of all tourism worldwide. The term ecotourism can be well described with the following five criteria: nature conservation, low impact, sustainability, mea...

There is growing evidence that customer satisfaction is a driving force behind firm’s business competitiveness and performance (Parasuraman et al., 1985, 1988; Zeithaml et al., 1996). This is absolutely true in the case of tourism, where there is a wide application of concepts, models and tools aimed to evaluate customer satisfaction. It is recognized in fact that, in order to identify the stre...

This paper deals with e-tourism, innovation and growth. The Internet is revolutionising the distribution of tourism information and sales. The Korean small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMTEs) with well-developed and innovative Web sites can now have “equal Internet access” to international tourism markets. This paper examines problems and solutions related to electronic commerce in the...