tourism as a growing industry needs special attention in developing countries. during last decades, nature based tourism has been growing faster than other tourism fields and it seems to grow even faster. ever growing demand for nature based tourism emphasizes the necessity of a holistic planning for preserving environment against degradation. objective of this study is to present a nature base...

purpose: this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding about strategies and guidelines of rural tourism planning and management in iran, then with the help of experts and their participation identify and classify the different perspectives in iran rural tourism to finally putting forward a step beyond the current impressions and perceptions. methodology: in the past few decades, rura...

Environment both endowed and built are essential for tourism. However tourism and environment maintains a complex relationship, where in most cases environment is at the receiving end. Many tourism development activities have adverse environmental effects, mainly emanating from construction of general infrastructure and tourism facilities. These negative impacts of tourism can lead to the destr...

All-for-One Tourism is a new planning concept proposed by Chinese tourism management practitioners. Based on the present situation of tourism industry development, the new planning concept is to guide the transformation and upgrading of tourist destinations. The development level of all-for-one tourism represents the maturity of regional tourism industry. China has been actively promoting the a...

The Tourism Company is a UK-based tourism consultancy working in the field of tourism research, planning, development and marketing, with a specialism in rural tourism, ecotourism and protected areas.

swot analysis is used extensively as an assessment and planning method, particularly in tourism planning. however, there are little documentations on application of swot analysis in ecotourism. an assessment on systematic use of swot analysis was carried out in the present study to highlight the applicability of the swot technique in detailed investigations. in this study, based on field survey...

Recently, artistic places and places known from movies induced an increasing tourism. However, the fast development also challenges the rural planning authorities that are not prepared to manage the high number of tourists. In this paper focus is put on two rural municipalities in southern Sweden. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize and compare tourism development and tourism planning in...

This paper introduces the processing technology of high resolution remote sensing image, the specific making process of tourism map and different remote sensing data in the key application of tourism planning and so on. Remote sensing extracts agricultural tourism planning information, improving the scientificalness and operability of agricultural tourism planning. Therefore remote sensing imag...

the mountains as the other natural environment are the main purposes for nature based tourism such as sport tourism and have a finite capacity for recreation development which differs from one place to another and naturally causes different type of tourism’s development. therefore land suitability is very important before tourism planning. some charactristics like geomorphological, biological a...