“Roots tourism” is loosely defined as a type of tourism in which ethnic minorities visit their ancestral lands to discover ethnic roots and culture. Despite the recent popularity of this type of tourism, many gaps remain in the study of roots tourism, particularly about its influence on the tourists’ identity. This exploratory study investigates the ways in which second and subsequent generatio...

Italy has always been a wine country: it produces 20% of the world and 33% of the European wine production; in 2008 it has produced more wine grapes than France. More, Italy is also a country with an ancient tradition in tourism. But there are weakness in these sectors: Italy is, among the big touristic countries, the one with the more fragmented accommodation capacity; in the last 20 years it ...

Issues in the macro-environment are affecting the historic relationships that have existed between hospitals and their medical staffs over the last half century. Rising healthcare costs, deteriorating relationships, unexplained variations in clinical outcomes, transparency in healthcare outcomes, medical tourism, competition between hospitals and physicians, and reluctance by hospitals and phys...

Background: Modern tourism has caused social, economic and environmental damage, in spite of its positive effects, in order to earn money and profit. One of the reasons for these problems is the lack of respect for ethical issues by tourists. The purpose of this article is to investigate and analyze the indicators and codes of ethical tourism from the viewpoint of tourists in the Ganjnameh tour...

background:environment destroyed and reduce the living place especially in urban place  become an important mater these days ,improving environment need a lot of think together like economic, realigns and environment  changes ,urban tourism is one of the most  important and complicate behavior in town. objective: in researchers look tourism have a large effect on economic, realign and social be...

Although sustainable tourism concepts are gaining in importance everywhere, related research is quite fragmented with many studies concentrating on environmental sustainability. Seeking to contribute to the general discussion, we first examine the perceptions of sustainability among tourists using a best–worst scaling method applied to important aspects of sustainable tourism. Our results show ...

The rural tourism as the most popular forms of tourism can be regarded as a policy to reduce the problems of rural areas. Rural tourism, is a risk factor for the development of rural areas, including most the effects of its population stable, solve unemployment, reduced migration and more. This study aimed to detection effects of tourism in Myshkhas Rural Center development in Ilam Province. A ...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to Iran as a tourism destination. The concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. The members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. Thestatistical data were collected by conve...