In recent years, marine cultural tourism, an emerging tourism mode, has become more and more popular among tourists, and demonstrates broad market prospects. However, Chinese marine cultural tourism is still in the development and growth stage, and the level of customer satisfaction is uneven. The improvement of the customer satisfaction level is conducive to meeting customers’ demands in marin...

extended abstract 1. introduction mechanical life and pollution in the cities, air pollution and noise pollution and other environmental pollutants led to increasingly citizen’s need to nature and the use of its blessings. naqadeh town located in west azerbaijan state, invites the numbers of passengers from inside and outside of the state, in tourism seasons, yearly. potential element of touris...

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...

Wildlife tourism can provide economic incentives for conservation. Due to the abundance of wildlife and the presence of charismatic species some areas are better suited to wildlife tourism. Our first objective was to develop criteria based on wildlife abundance and diversity to evaluate tourism potential in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana. Secondly we wanted to quantify and compare t...

Cultural Tourism: Identification of Community-Based Tourism Potential In Bandung. As a city with many nicknames as City Heritage, Bandung has cultural tourism assets such monuments or historical buildings that can be special attraction for everyone who visits. Experts needed to manage these assets, one the concepts asset management applied local community are known Community Based (CBT). This a...

In Lugano (Switzerland), the OECD Tourism Committee was the first intergovernmental body to examine in-depth the relationship between growth and innovation in the area of tourism. This paper examines the main issues raised during the Lugano Conference: ! Why does tourism in the developed OECD countries urgently need to innovate? ! What factors are preventing the much needed restructuring of the...

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...

Tourism is an important part of national economy. On the other hand it can also be a source of some negative externalities. These are mainly environmental externalities, resulting in increased pollution, aesthetic or architectural damages. High concentration of visitors may also lead to increased crime, or aggressiveness. These may have negative effects on quality of life of residents and negat...

— The web-based technologies have become a strategic necessity for tourism organizations. Through switching to online services, tourism organizations are achieving better positions in the digital-based competitive market. The Chinese tourism industry is investing in the development of a ‘Golden Tourism Project’ which includes tourism E-commerce website development and evaluation as one of main ...

We were interested to read Priya Shetty’s World Report examining the booming medical tourism industry in India (Aug 28, p 671). The Lancet is to be commended for bringing attention to this issue. It is of the utmost importance that trends in medical tourism be watched closely given the implications for patients’ health and safety and for health systems more broadly. Shetty places significant fo...