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 purpose of this paper is to explore residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and how they affect attitudes towards local tourism policies. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of community attachment and employment sector of residents. This study presents the results of a quantitative survey among residing families of a small mountain community located in the North-East of Italy. T...

The worldwide evolution of park management has revealed the dual roles of parks in meeting nature conservation and social objectives. Sustainable tourism is able to support these roles by providing financial support to nature conservation, benefiting local communities through providing employment opportunities and capacity building as well as by maintaining visitor satisfaction. Kinabalu Park i...

B asically, many developed and developing countries need to expand tourism activities for accessing to the goals of national economic development and attracting foreign funds, therefore evaluating the efficiency of tourism industry can have significant help in recognizing the existed tourism potentials. The Chabahar zone in spite of numerous potential abilities in attracting domestic...

The progress of remote sensing (RS), geographic information system (GIS) and global position system (GPS) in China since the early 1980s.The first section introduces the applications of remote sensing to environmental monitoring and resources investigation in tourism. The second section focuses on further analysis of the applications of geographic information system from the point of view of vi...

The tourism industry depends on complex value creation chains involving a large number of participants that change frequently and rapidly. In addition, the products of tourism industry are complex and they will perish if they are not sold in time. For these reasons, the ideal tourism information systems require a lot of flexibility of underlying systems. Moreover, they comprise accurate access ...

One of the primary challenges facing ecotourism management is to establish a profitable and ecologically sustainable industry, while simultaneously achieving a satisfying experience for visitors and raising standards of living in the host community. This paper analyses the management practices and challenges faced by two ecotourism attractions on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, namely ...

Management greatly depends on knowledge, and its detection, creation, transmission, and number of intangibles play a fundamental role in success. In tourism, information systems must work on immaterial concepts and take steps to satisfy the expectations of multiple potential customers. These systems require complex models of reality and suitable conceptual tools to work out strategies. This art...

5 Chapter I: Introduction 6 Arrival 6 Thesis Outline 8 Chapter II: Geology, Geography, and History 12 Geology and Geography 12 History 13 i. Pre-Settlement 13 ii. Settlement 16 iii. Darwin’s Visit 19 iv. Modern History 22 Chapter III: The Anthropology of Tourism 25 Introduction 25 History and Notable Works 25 Theory 31 Themes 33 Chapter IV: Costa Rica and Ecotourism 35 Why Costa Rica? 35 Implem...