Introduction: Since medical tourism is considered as an incremental activity in this sector and proper infrastructures in country to make medical tourism are lacking, announcement by authorities to provide perquisites of medical tourism to make the first clinic hotel and health town are necessary for the purpose of developing medical tourism in Iran, all of these side issues sh...

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...

This paper investigated the ICT effect on tourism industry in Iran economic growth over 1350-1390 period using co-integration and error correction methodology. As economic growth and ICT implication on society variables used in empirical analysis was integrated of one, employed Granger causality test. This study examines how the ICT and Internet gradually change the tourism industry structure i...

Tourism businesses are operating in an increasingly turbulent environment and are being forced to react to extreme circumstances that are outside of their control. This paper examines the affects of SARS on tourism enterprises in China through a national survey of hotels, travel agencies and other tourism-related businesses. While all types of enterprises were adversely affected, it is shown th...

Mountain regions worldwide are affected by climate change. Indeed, mountains represent unique areas for the detection of climate change and the assessment of climate-related impacts (Beniston 2003; Messerli & Ives 1997). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted dramatic impacts on mountain ecosystems as a result of climate change. Changing climates will potentially alt...

In recent years a growing interest in the concept of sustainability has manifested itself in the tourism field in the form of policyand planning-related materials which address the environmental and, to a lesser extent, the cultural dimensions of sustainability in tourist industry practices. In essence this literature has focused on the resources on which the tourism industry draws for its prod...

Th e Canary Islands or ‘fortunate islands,’ a Spanish archipelago and a well-known mass tourism destination, is experiencing the redevelopment of its wine industry. In this regard, wine tourism appears to be a natural extension emerging from a traditional product wine that has been part of Canary Islands’ culture for centuries. Th is study explores the extent to which wine, tourism and related ...