Automatic machine translation systems in research institutions have reached a considerable level of performance. This is especially true for Statistical Machine Translation. Since its introduction in the 1990s, it has outperformed earlier approaches and produces a translation quality that seemed impossible only a short time ago. Particularly for limited domains like tourism dialogs, medical rel...

background: the need for better healthcare has grown significantly in recent years. in addition, the rising healthcare costs in the u.s. and in many european countries have forced many patients to seek medical treatment abroad, which has created the demand for medical tourism. with little yet known as to the perception of a medical tourist's destination selection, this study aims to explore med...

In these days, understanding tourists’ spatio-temporal movement behaviour is becoming more and more important factor for success of tourist marketing. This paper uses a general purpose data mining tool to identify tourist spatiotemporal movement patterns and across patterns between tourist profiles and their spatio-temporal movement patterns. Major temporal movement sequences and spatial moveme...

This study identified important questionable behaviors conducted by tour group leaders, tour guides, travel agency reception personnel, and other tourists in group package tours and investigated how tourists perceive those questionable behaviors. Data for this study were obtained from tourists who had taken part in a Taiwanese group package tour in the recent year. Results of the study show tha...

A study on the public's perceptions and conceptions of global environmental changes (GECs) is relevant to guide future educational strategies and management actions. The present study aimed to: (1) evaluate coastal tourists' conceptions and perceptions of GECs; (2) correlate the conceptions presented by tourists about GECs and their self-declared knowledge; (3) evaluate how these tourists perce...

health tourism is a form of travel in addition to recreation, leisure, comfort, health and medical care as well. this paper aims to assess the state of health tourism in the city of mashhad, from the perspective of foreign tourists, identify weaknesses in health tourism and health tourism adsorption process and provide medical services to foreign patients in mashhad compilation.research methods...