ICTs & Internet Adoption in China’s Tourism Industry Abstract The fast development of information communication technologies (ICT) and the expansion of the Internet have changed industry structures around the world. New technologies have been adopted in the tourism industry in Europe and America for more than 30 years, and the trend is likely to continue into the future. China, as a fast-growin...

Tourism destinations are complex organizations which need to manage their organizational reputation. Moreover, being the web a very relevant communication, marketing and sales channel, tourism managers should be aware that also online discourse can influence the overall reputation of the destination. Actually the ever increasing complexity and evolution of the web and the advent of web2.0 made ...

abstract in the current decade the third world's countries are using of development rural tourism approach to improve indexes of development. in iran due to multiplicity of rural area using of this strategy is important. analysis the condition of host area for achieving positive tourism impacts is necessary. in this paper, the challenges and opportunities on developing rural tourism is distingu...

Environmental policy is one of the key management dimensions of rejuvenation strategies in mature tourism destinations. Among these, voluntary environmental initiatives are increasingly becoming a relevant theoretical possibility and are an empirical reality. Voluntary environmental initiatives are primarily undertaken in developed countries, mostly in Europe, that is on itself a mature tourism...

Medical tourism has been growing rapidly in recent years. This trend causing the information about medical tourism destination will increase significantly. The information of medial tourism has been found online started from the demographic spread of the potential medical tourists and destination. However, the growth of information available on the web nowadays has led to information overload, ...

The utilization of Information Technology (IT) is spreading in tourism industry with explosive growth of Internet, Social Network Service (SNS) through smart phone applications. Especially, since intensive information has high value on tourism area, IT is becoming a crucial factor in the tourism industry. The smart tourism is explained as an holistic approach that provide tour information, serv...

The rapidly developing relationship between tourism and creativity, arguably heralds a ‘creative turn’ in tourism studies. Creativity has been employed to transform traditional cultural tourism, shifting from tangible heritage towards more intangible culture and greater involvement with the everyday life of the destination. The emergence of ‘creative tourism’ reflects the growing integration be...

The evolution of the internet over the past years has given destinations, suppliers of tourism services and intermediaries a wide range of new possibilities to get into contact with their customers. Destinations are at the heart of travel decisions but yet it is difficult for travelers to find quality information relating to destinations and even more for Destination Marketing Organizations (DM...