In this chapter we describe an e-Tourism environment that places emphasis on a communitydriven approach to foster a lively society of travelers. It enables them to exchange travel experiences, recommend tourism destinations or just catch some interesting gossip. Moreover, business transactions such as booking a trip or getting assistance from professional travel agents are a constituent part of...

Health tourism can be generally divided into medical, health spa and wellness tourism. Health spa tourism services are provided in special hospitals for medical rehabilitation and health resorts, and include under medical supervision controlled use of natural healing factors and physical therapy in order to improve and preserve health. There are 13 special hospitals for medical rehabilitation a...

Background and Objectives: Halal branding covers a wide range of economic activities including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health, textiles, clothing, leather, financial services, banking and tourism. Among the various forms of tourism, medical tourism has grown rapidly due to its competitive advantages. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate halal branding as a strategy to deve...

Hainan, as a popular tourism destination, is well-promoted by the Chinese central government. In particular, both and local governments encourage Hainan’s sport tourism-related professionals to develop one of most important tourist activities in Hainan. However, previous research has not reported on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats destination or sports event host. This study uses ...

In tourism industry there is strong comprehensive nature, high interrelatedness, long industrial chain, and in particular, featuring integration with industry. As tourism is the industry to be defined according to tourists’ need, tourists consumption of service of food, transportation, accommodations, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment in the travel process will naturally link with a numbe...

In practice, tourism organisations tend to be more serious towards their financial viability and therefore undermine long-term socio-cultural and environmental consequences. In so doing they impede their own ability and that of the destination to develop in a sustainable way. This may lead to ‘strategic drift’ where, organisation’s existing strategy gradually, if imperceptibly, moves away from ...

— According to advocates, eco-certification can stem environmental damages from tourism in developing countries. Yet we know little about tourism operators’ economic incentives to get certified. To help fill that gap, we use detailed panel data to analyze the Blue Flag beach certification program in Costa Rica where nature-based tourism has caused significant environmental damage. We use new ho...

Tourism in nature is such economic activity that has been changed into a global industry nowadays. Nowadays development of tourism and entrance of tourist creates high economic, social, cultural and environmental effect on region of accepting tourism. Social-cultural effects of tourism are counted as the most important regards of tourism development in any region. Tourism development has positi...

This paper deals with e-tourism, innovation and growth. The Internet is revolutionising the distribution of tourism information and sales. The Korean small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMTEs) with well-developed and innovative Web sites can now have “equal Internet access” to international tourism markets. This paper examines problems and solutions related to electronic commerce in the...

Nature-based tourism has recently been the industry's focus, and nature become a tourist attraction worldwide. The increased activities participation in this type of have escalated growth research within area. Malaysia's current definition nature-based is vague, narrow, fragmented. As an essential component country's industry, it necessary to redefine since its features vary from one destinatio...