This study examines the relationships between tourism destination competitiveness (TDC), empowerment, and support for among residents. It also role of empowerment as a mediator in relationship TDC residents’ tourism. A total 711 respondents were used. uses descriptive analysis, two-stage factor structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show that seven antecedents TDC, namely natural, cult...

The lack of contemporaneous end-to-end paths often characterize mobile computing environments, for which Delay Tolerant Networking is designed. In this work, we present a novel routing protocol using Virtual Repositories to assist in location-based forwarding when the location of a destination node is unknown. We compare the protocol to other existing protocols under two mobility models, Random...

Creative tourism has been approached from several points of view: products and processes, enabling elements, marketing, sustainability, etc. However, to our best knowledge, there is no integrative model that brings together all its dimensions enables a ‘bird’s eye’ perspective creative destination competitiveness. As such, this article aims present competitiveness for destination. The presents ...

BACKGROUND In this edge, medical tourism is not a new idea. Medical treatment is one of the essential demands of human beings and it requires high quality and intensive care. Beside western world, few developing countries are playing key roles as medical tourism destinations. India is one of the leading names among these countries. The purpose of the paper is to find the factors influencing the...

The present study aims to widen the existing literature by discovering potential determining factors at selected ecotourism destinations, primarily involving Bako, Niah, Kubah, Gunung Gading and Mulu National Parks. A closed questionnaire was answered 188 respondents. Preliminary analyses were performed partial least square structural equation modeling employed as analytical measure, thus signi...

Mabul Island is a popular diving site for divers, with its main appeal of marine life as one the most visited islands in Malaysia. If island not protected from tourist activities, image destination may deteriorate. This research focuses on measuring tourism competitiveness by evaluating sustainable features using Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The aim to identify essential and evaluate ...