Tourism research has reached a mature stage indicated by the rising number of journals and citation patterns inside the tourism field. However, many challenges exist including the irrelevancy of tourism research to practitioners, increasing subscription cost of academic journals, the long delay in publishing research results, and academic institutions’ limited budget. Academic institutions are ...

Organizational impact on information systems plays an important role for tourism managers’ attention towards improving tourism service quality. As tourism service quality depends on information systems, which is important to determine what aspects of organizational impact that are critical to the managers of tourism enterprises to devise effective tourism service quality improvement strategies....

Climate has a strong influence on the tourism and recreation sector and in some regions represents the natural resource on which the tourism industry is predicated. There has been little consideration of how climate change might affect the tourism climate resource or how such changes could alter the competitive relationships between tourism destinations. This study used a modified version of Mi...

Innovations in the fields of Information and Communication Technology, Transport, and Human Resources Management have transformed the structure of the global tourism and travel industry. The Internet has enabled tourism and travel firms to tap into new domestic and international markets while availing regions in developing countries the opportunities to publicize their unique tourism products a...

The research paper investigates the behaviour of tourism alumni at the transition from tourism education market to tourism labour market and from tourism labour market to other labour markets. The paper focuses especially on the decisions of tourism graduates to enter in the tourism labour market as "stayer" or to exit the tourism industry as "mover". The first part commences with some facts an...

3D printing is now being used in many different applications. Souvenir items and replicas of artifacts, which usually do not need to have high durability/strength, may be one the possible applications 3d printing. In this study, researchers tried manufacture keychains, refrigerator magnets, display from historical artifacts province Bataan. Three experts (1 tourism industry, 1 BS Tourism Facult...

The paper forms a rejoinder to the paper by David Weaver (‘Organic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence’). It fully agrees with David Weaver that a sustainable development of tourism should focus on sustainable mass tourism development and not, as is currently the case, so much on niche products labelled ‘sustainable’. However, it critiques Weaver’s operational...

This paper develops a new model which exposes the epistemological characteristics of tourism studies. Various claims and frameworks have been proposed with regard to the epistemology of tourism, mainly centering around the discipline/field debate. A critical review of these is undertaken and the idea that tourism studies is a discipline is rejected. It is proposed that tourism be conceptualized...

Discussions about sustainable tourism development generally focus on policy making. Many studies on sustainable tourism development address issues such as area tourism planning and development, management, and the formulation of tourism development guidelines and regulations. However, in this study, rather than focusing on policy making, I will focus on small-scale tourism entrepreneurs who are...

This paper analyzes the developments in Croatian tourism sector during the last decade. Croatian tourism indicators are compared to the indicators of other Mediterranean countries with strong tourism activity and a dominance of the “sun and sea” tourism product. The results of the analysis suggest that tourism in Croatia exhibits favorable results in terms of strong growth in tourism revenues, ...