The number of Latino immigrants in rural areas has increased substantially since 1990. Furthermore, many Latino immigrants are moving to rural communities in the Southeast, Midwest, and Northwest, which historically have not been immigrant destinations. This recent, rapid, and unexpected population growth in new rural destinations has focused public attention on immigration reform and fostered ...

Latino immigrants have recently spread beyond traditional US enclaves to “emerging destinations.” The arrival of limited English proficiency (LEP) Spanish-speakers to these areas can challenge the health care system, as translation services may not be readily available for LEP patients. Trained auditors posed as family members of LEP patients seeking primary care in a safety net setting. We fou...

Competition between tourism destinations on national, regional and local levels continues to intensify due to the pressure of globalization (Friedman, 2006). Accordingly, destination Management Organizations (dMOs) have to constantly reevaluate and re-engineer the same time, tourism development pressures destination areas through increased resource consumption and, land fragmentation while poli...

Introduction: This study examined the relationship between specific psychosocial variables and the use of insect repellents on skin or clothing as a preventive behavior for Chikungunya fever among US travelers to Caribbean destinations. Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective online survey method was adopted. US residents who travelled to one of 34 Carib...

Since 1990, rural communities across the United States, which historically have not been destinations for recent immigrants, have experienced rapid and unexpected growth in their Latino immigrant populations. This is the second of two briefs examining the social and economic integration of Latino immigrants in these new rural destinations. The first brief provided a point-in-time analysis of La...

1. introduction monitoring the evolution of tourism life cycle in iran is relatively new; and despite of the fact that this approach can be a useful framework for understanding the relationships among the activities of tourism destinations, limited methods and approaches are introduced. therefore, this research introduces a new approach to monitoring and evaluating tourism activities in tourism...

BACKGROUND Active transport is a convenient way to incorporate physical activity in adolescents' daily life. The present study aimed to investigate which psychosocial and environmental factors are associated with walking, cycling, public transport (train, tram, bus, metro) and passive transport (car, motorcycle, moped) over short distances (maximum eight kilometres) among older adolescents (17-...

In many robotic exploration missions, robots have to learn specific policies that allow them to: (i) select high level goals (e.g., identify specific destinations), (ii) navigate (reach those destinations), (iii) and adapt to their environment (e.g., modify their behavior based on changing environmental conditions). Furthermore, those policies must be robust to signal noise or unexpected situat...

This chapter looks to analyse new paradigms in the relationship between public and private organisations towards tourism destinations. It proposes new approaches for increased performance both at the competitive and the organisational level. Based on the literature review, this chapter suggests new organisational forms of being and interaction directed at increased customer needs and growing co...