Infectious disease threat events (IDTEs) are increasing in frequency worldwide. We analyzed underlying drivers of 116 IDTEs detected in Europe during 2008-2013 by epidemic intelligence at the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control. Seventeen drivers were identified and categorized into 3 groups: globalization and environment, sociodemographic, and public health systems. A combination...

Tourism plays an important role in the development of aboriginal towns in Taiwan, and the goal of this study is to explore the impact of tourism on the residents of Wulai, Taipei County, an aboriginal town which for a long time has tourism as its main activity, and the meaning of the changes in their living environment and clashes caused by tourism development on their cultural landscapes. The ...

China tourism industry is investing to develop a “Golden Tourism Project”. One of the main objectives of this project is to improve web-based tourism online service quality and implement tourism e-commerce. In order to develop successfully the project it is necessary to investigate who are main tourism website users, what are their requirements for online tourism services and how do they assess...

an urban regeneration project is defined as a series of actions determined to accomplish urban regeneration aims that lead to reduce the problems of an area via improving the socioeconomic, physical and environmental conditions. today, urban regeneration is one of key principles in act of planning and it is beyond the urban renewal, urban redevelopment or urban rehabilitation processes because ...

By “personalized tourism” is intended a way to offer a tourist services adequate to his culture, interests, experience, time and money to spend, and any other aspect related to his personal way of life. Informatics and artificial intelligence can respectively give a great contribute to the development of systems able to support in such a way a person, the former by technologies for developing s...

This study is aimed at revealing the tourism destination image (TDI) of Japan as represented on Chinese websites. Three Internet-based information resources were used to collect the text database: travel advertisements, travel guides, and travel blogs. The TDI of Japan represented on each information source was studied by counting word frequencies in each text database. Correspondence analysis ...

Networks, knowledge, and relationships have become crucial assets to business survival in the new economy. Research indicates that network building is a major new source of competitive advantage and an essential regional and indeed global management requirement. Because regional policies encourage interfirm alliances and the development of regional economic communities, the fostering of a cultu...

In recent times, the search for a new relationship with nature, of quality and safety of foodstuffs and in particular the need for “identity”, of characterizing places as bearers of values and traditions have led an increasing number of people to see rural areas as places of values, resources, culture and products to discover and enjoy. Agriculture has taken on a multifunctional role and link w...