International tourism demand, or tourist arrivals, to Australia has recently experienced dramatic fluctuations due to changes in the economic, financial and political environment. However, variations in tourism demand, specifically the conditional variance, or volatility, have not previously been investigated. An analysis of such volatility is essential for investigating the effects of shocks i...

The destination of tourism is a major element in tourism marketing. Branding tourism destination is a process by which a tourism destination develops its focal features, develops and delivers its main audience, can build a reputation, establish its reputation, strengthen slowly or even change, which is important for tourism purposes. Brand recognition is very important for communicating success...

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the main purpose of this study was to estimate the market demand of tractor stock in africa, west asia and other target markets for iran manufactured tractors. box and jenkins, and exponential smoothing methods were applied, using data from 1961 to 2006. results indicated that demand for tractor stock in the target markets will be approximately 533 thousand sets in 2012 and consequently the ann...

Africa’s tourism potential is acknowledged to be significant but underdeveloped. This paper uses both cross-section data as well as panel data for the period 1996 to 2000 to identify the determinants of tourism arrivals in 43 African countries, taking into account the country of origin of tourists. The results strongly suggest that political stability, tourism infrastructure, marketing and info...

The ICT is one of the main determinant factors of e-commerce industry such as tourism industry in developing countries like Iran. For this purpose, the main objective of this paper is to investigate the long-run relationship between ICT indices such as internet users, government expenditures on ICT to the GDP and mobile cellular in Iranian economy during the 1976-2014. The empirical model has b...

E-commerce has significantly changed the distribution channels of travel products in the world including China. Online channels are growing important in travel service distribution. In China tourism industry has been developed rapidly with the economic development, more and more international travel service providers are trying to expand their Chinese market through the Internet. This paper she...

In this paper, we model and forecast Australian domestic tourism demand. We use a regression framework to estimate important economic relationships for domestic tourism demand. We also identify the impact of world events such as the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Bali bombings on Australian domestic tourism. To explore the time series nature of the data, we use innovation state space models ...

The historic water towns in the Tai Lake Basin are representative of tourism products featuring a unique cultural heritage landscape and the local way of life in eastern China. Since the 1980s, this market has experienced phenomenal growth in both the quantity of water towns and the scale of tourist arrivals. Drawing from industrial economics theory and an agent-based modeling approach, we exam...

a systemic approach to tourism may be regarded as a comprehensive measure to appreciate, analyze, plan and mobilize tourism as an industry. through such an approach, one may investigate and bring into alignment factors influencing tourism (such as tourists, the host society, institutes associated with tourism, and the environment) as an interrelated system of elements. to put it another way, a ...