Within the concept of cultural tourism, this article defines relatively new concepts of creative and hobby tourism, which are detected as recent niche markets. Cultural tourism is a narrow specialized market, while creative and hobby tourism relate to even more specialized segments. Even these specialized forms of tourism have their market whose growth is very probable taking into account chang...

Tourism industry has been promoted as one of the most effective development strategies in many poor areas in China. Yet, the tourism development patterns in many areas have shown unsustainable. The reason for the unsustainable is mainly due to the inability to manage the image of tourism, a public resources for all the tourism developers, in these regions. Regional tourism bureaus have not form...

The current study directly surveyed consumers on their experiences and consideration of medical tourism to test the variables thought to impact medical tourism. The sample was deployed to qSample's international traveler panel. The survey was completed by 68.5% of participants. Over a third of the respondents said they had considered medical tourism; 15% had actually traveled to another country...

Received: September 27, 2016 Revised: October 26, 2016 Accepted: October 27, 2016 Abstract: Background: More and more developing nations are promoting cross-border medical tourism as a way to enhance economic growth. Major destinations for medical tourism in South and Southeast Asia include India, Thailand, Malaysia and wealthy Singapore. Much has been written on the pros and cons of the growth...

Global disparities in medical technologies, laws, economic inequities, and social-cultural differences drive medical tourism (MT), the practice of travelling to consume healthcare that is either too delayed, unavailable, unaffordable or legally proscribed at home. Africa is simultaneously a source and destination for MT. MT however, presents a new and challenging health ethics frontier, being l...

Medical tourism is a growing phenomenon with policy implications for health systems, particularly of destination countries. Private actors and governments in Southeast Asia are promoting the medical tourist industry, but the potential impact on health systems, particularly in terms of equity in access and availability for local consumers, is unclear. This article presents a conceptual framework...

Recently there has been increased interest within the U.S. Navy in the use of climatology-based products to support the planning and execution of military operations. Climatological databases of atmospheric features that impact electromagnetic (EM) propagation have been developed to provide guidance on weapons and sensor system performance for expected environmental conditions. However, the mar...

Long-term climatology of air mass transport through the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) during NH winter K. Krüger, S. Tegtmeier, and M. Rex IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany Received: 11 September 2007 – Accepted: 21 September 2007 – Published: 28 September 2007 Correspondence to: K. Krüger ...

Cloud and Precipitation Systems October 13, 2005 Jonathan Wolfe