This paper, based on the gravity model of tourism demand, studies the factors to the travel to the neighbor areas with the example of Hong Kong tourists to Macau, analyzing the drawing forces such as promotion activities of Macau’s Special Administrative Region government and the tourism industry, consumptions in Macau, especial events, and Macau’s tourism destination attractiveness, and the pu...

This paper develops principles for the ordering of the curriculum for tourism higher education. The framework proposed comprises four key domains of vocational action, vocational reflection, liberal reflection and liberal action. The framework enables the problems of curricula that are over-focused in one part of curriculum space to be surfaced. It also enables the case to be made, and the cont...

The success of IT projects depends on the success of the partnerships on which they are based. However research has identified a significant rate of failure in these partnerships, predominantly due to an overly technical mindset, leading to the question: "how do we ensure that, as technological solutions are implemented within tourism, due consideration is given to human-centred issues?" The to...

Travel information search is a complex, dynamic and contingent process. Travel information search and planning on the Internet becomes more and more prevalent along with the development of information technology. However, the usability of the Internet as a travel information source still remains as a problem. This research intends to explore the interaction process between a travel information ...

Modern tourism is based on numerous and diverse, direct, indirect, occasional permanent, relations of man, society space, i.e. the environment in which it takes place. Tourism a pronounced spatial phenomenon. It place land sea, almost all continents countries. Where organized purposeful valorisation tradition good organization, basis for achieving satisfactory economic social effects. That why ...

with the advent of cyberspace and development of data and information, virtual cities were presented as new forms of city management in different layers and territories. historic and tourism virtual city are among eight types of virtual cities. in this article some guidelines were presented in order to design and manage them based on tehran tourists' need assessment. theoretical framework ...

purpose: religious beliefs of the distant past, had a major role in the establishment and development of human settlements. in order to earn religious tourism and the preservation of cultural heritage is taken into consideration. this paper attempts to influence of presence of religious tourists on the development of rural settlements must be examined from the perspective of the villagers. meth...

It is common in tourism and leisure literature to define and approach tourism subgroups in terms of the presence of the tourists in certain spaces. This approach is challenged in the present paper. It is argued that the understanding of heritage tourism should be based on the link between the individual and the space, namely tourist perceptions of a site relative to their own heritage. Based on...

......................................................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................... 5 Table of Content .........................................................................................................