the balanced scorecard framework with a hierarchical, multilayer, and causal-effect structure can shed light on the growth path and pave the development steps, which in addition to monitoring the financial goals. it also considers and controls the other effective and driving factors. in this study, after reviewing the balanced scorecard, a model was proposed in addition to extract the strategic...

Abstracl Destinations emerge as umbrella brands that need to be promoted as one entity for each target market they try to attract in the competitively fierce world of travel and tourism. A Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) plays a crucial role in the promotion and management of a tourism destination, mainly through an effective use of its Destination Marketing System as a marketing tool....

Purpose Whether a human body has healthy carrying capacity is calculated by mass index (BMI). The BMI found dividing weight in kilograms the square of length. If person's more than heaviness that can carry healthily, it called obesity. Destinations have specific area, just like body. Therefore, any destination whose exceeded be an “obese destination”. This study's primary purpose to reveal impo...

The rapid development of technologies introduces smartness to all organisations and communities. The Smart Tourism Destinations (STD) concept emerges from the development of Smart Cities. With technology being embedded on all organisations and entities, destinations will exploit synergies between ubiquitous sensing technology and their social components to support the enrichment of tourist expe...

Predictive models of destinations represent an opportunity in the context of the increasing availability and sophistication of in-car driving aids. We present analyses of drivers’ destinations based on GPS data recorded from 180 volunteer subjects. We focus on the probability of observing drivers visit previously unobserved destinations given time of day and day of week, and the rate of decline...

This paper focuses on the identification of human activity patterns in SecondLife (SL), a user-constructed virtual environment. SecondLife allows the users to create a virtual avatar, explore areas constructed by other users, socialize, and conduct financial transactions just as one would in the real world. However unlike the real world, new attractions can be constructed within hours and previ...

Aspects of destination choice which concern relationships between destinations are explored in the context of a production-constrained gravity model. It is shown that, if competition exists between destinations or, alternatively, if agglomeration effects are present, the gravity model is misspecifled and estimated distance-decay parameters obtained from the model are related to spatial structur...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the psychometric properties of a new measure of barriers youth encounter while walking to specific destinations and to validate the measure with self-reported walking to these destinations. METHODS In 2005 in Boston, Cincinnati and San Diego, parents of youth (n=289, aged 5-18) and adolescents (n=189, aged 12-18) completed surveys in a two-week test-retest study desig...