Singapore‟s meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition industry (M.I.C.E.) attracts over 4,000 events and over 400,000 foreign participants every year. Since 1982, Singapore has been the top convention destination in Asia and today ranks among the top ten in the world. An assessment of Singapore MICE attractiveness shows that while the country has many strengths, particularly infrastructure...

Urban dynamics deal with spatial organizations where a great complexity of interactions appears. Social and economic aspects interact and environmental objectives are nowadays a major purpose for sustainable urban development. We propose some generic modelling processes able to face with this complexity, in order to simulate the evolution of the city centers. These organizational centers need a...

Tourism promotion can be actualized through brochures, advertising, films, literary works, and works of art by doing direct marketing or word mouth recommendations to promote local tourist attractions. Literary also describe attractions myths, folklore, travel books, novels, films. This study analyzed the North Bali tourism novels. The novels used as research objects are novel Aku Cinta Lovina ...

Outbound travel by Chinese residents is growing rapidly and it is predicted that Chinese visitors will become the largest inbound source market to Europe and Australia, possibly in less than a decade. The Chinese government tightly controls outbound travel via a number of mechanisms such as limiting travel to selected destinations through its Approved Destination Status (ADS) scheme, predetermi...

Selecting tourist attractions to visit at a destination is a main stage in planning a trip. Although various online travel recommendation systems have been developed to support users in the task of travel planning during the last decade, few systems focus on recommending specific tourist attractions. In this paper, an intelligent system to provide personalized recommendations of tourist attract...

This article proposes to investigate perceptions on how migration is contributing to the rise of overweight and obesity mainly among female staff and students of Zulu ethnicity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban. Through a cultural anthropology lens, this article interrogates the perceptions against the backdrop of rural-urban migration, and vice versa. From a public health persp...