The present paper focuses on an event called Tourism@. This major event gathers the main actors of etourism and is dedicated to the usages of ICT in the tourism industry. It appears as a unique international trade fair in Europe for start up innovative companies, high tech SMEs, academic research, as well as large multinationals. Since 2001, Tourism@’ specificities lie in the fact that each yea...

This paper seeks to address the research question of what factors make a destination competitive for the accessible tourism market. The research design is based on destination competitiveness theories. The objective is to formulate a ranking that can compare the competitiveness factors between two countries, with historical and appropriate data sets, in order to examine destination competitiven...

introduction access to tourism destinations and ranking of them are the main aspects of tourism development planning. although the analysis network process (anp) is based on analysis hierarchy process (ahp) but network structure or feedback is dominated in decision making of the options. this article tries to respond to following questions in order to prove the main goal of the research as sele...

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing businesses in the world over the recent decades. Total international tourist arrivals increased from 674 million in 2000 to 1,035 million in 2012 (World Tourism Organization, 2013). International tourism receipts in 2012 reached US$1,075 billion worldwide, documenting a 20% increase over 2009 (World Tourism Organization, 2013). World tou...

extended abstractintroductiontourism is an important tool of development for many countries. in the past, the development of tourism insisted on maximizing the profit of business owners and little attention was paid to the natural resources and community residents. but today the new paradigm of sustainable tourism development has emerged in the tourism literature. this paradigm is trying to imp...

This article studies the nature of differentiation in the market for medical tourism facilitators in the USA. Medical tourism facilitators in the USA resemble a monopolistically competitive industry. They choose to differentiate their services in several ways, including by the scope of countries and hospitals which they use, the scope of the treatments in which they specialize, the extent of in...

Forecasting tourism demand is a crucial issue in the tourism industry and is generally seen to be one of the most complex functions of tourism management. With the accurate forecasted trends and patterns that indicate the sizes, directions and characteristics of future international tourist flows, the government and private sectors can have a well-organized tourism strategy and provide a better...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...