Caves represent natural phenomena that have been used by man since ancient times, first as a refuge and dwelling, later objects of research tourism. In the karst landscape Slovak Republic in Central Europe, more than 7000 caves are registered relatively small area, which 18 open to public. This paper deals with analysis speleotourism potential 12 these caves, administered Administration. Based ...

An extensive survey of attitude towards scientific information of scientists in Japan was conducted in Japan. It was published in a technical report, and this survey is reviewed in this paper, with the hope that this will furnish findings important in working out the plan for promoting exploitation of mathematical talent in biomedical research. Findings are concordant with the impression of for...

Analysis of web visitors access patterns can lead to benefits in a wide range of areas such as decision support and website restructuring. Data mining techniques can be used to find access patterns hidden inside huge volumes of web access data. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether there are any such patterns in the web access data for the computer science website of RMIT university. ...

We suggest that the health center Igalo is the main entrepreneurial agent in health tourism in Montenegro. In order to succeed in stimulating economic growth, the health center can benefit from using a regional approach for attracting foreign visitors. Technological knowledge, with a focus on routines, is regarded as the main driver of changing existing practices. Change of routines can have ef...

Independence among different tourism expenditure categories is the most convenient hypothesis for modeling decision–making processes. Nevertheless, the best-suited framework would require dependence among expenditures in order to face individual budget and ordered choices. To this end we provide a new multivariate copula-based logit model with explanatory variables. We applied our tools to the ...

We will describe a field test and its evaluation of a truly novel type of mobile computer programs that will assist foreign tourists in their communication with Chinese people. The software is an electronic phrase book and a translation aid but at the same time a powerful multilingual information system connected to numerous services via the Internet. It effectively helps visitors to navigate t...

Ten years ago, no one would have predicted that the sleepy little town of Branson, Missouri would explode to become a major vacation destination for millions of U.S. and foreign tourists. Located in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, Branson holds claim to three mountain-fed lakes surrounded by millions of acres of unspoiled wilderness. The pristine natural surroundings of Branson have always at...

Museums often suffer from so‐called ‘hypercongestion’, wherein the number of visitors exceeds the capacity of the physical space of the museum. This can potentially be detrimental to the quality of visitors’ experiences, through disturbance by the behavior and presence of other visitors. Although this situation can be mitigated by managing visitors’ flow between spaces, a detailed analysis of v...

Compared with other types of festival activities, the musical festivals can attract large crowds of visitors easily and quickly. When the value experience of visitors is high, their satisfaction and loyalty will also be higher. In activities, the high degree of satisfaction means higher loyalty. The hypothesis model in this study indicates the causal relationship between visitor value and degre...