Today attention to legal regulations is one of the contributory factors to the development of tourism industry. Legality is located on the base of legislations which clarify tourists and host communities mutual responsibilities and rights, and its goal is organizing supply activities of tourism in a sustainable way. In any society tourism is influenced by politics and economy, so providing long...

Security and protection demands in tourism industry are very high due to the vulnerability of its infrastructure in light of security challenges and threats. Actual threats appear in the form of endangering the values that compose a train of products and services in tourism – from the moment of buying/selling a package tour, transfer of passengers and luggage to their destination, to stay in ho...

Tourism industry has been transformed dramatically by the Internet and web technologies. In the web 2.0 era, travelers‟ behaviors are affected by widely available user generated contents in a number of online social media. Much research has been conducted on the use and impact of web 2.0 on travelers; however, little was known from tourism suppliers‟ perspective. Our research therefore aims to ...

The paper employs data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to measure the level of input-output efficiency of the tourism industry in China, included 30 provinces (municipalities). And it reflects the current development pattern of the domestic tourism industry and regional difference .Furthermore, the regression model was established based on the evaluation, and the factors which improve industr...

The environmental quality of destination has become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism demand. In this paper we are going to present a model of vertical differentiation in the accommodation industry, where differentiation is associated with quality. Additionally, we assume the existence of a lump sum tax in the accommodation industry. Two are the main results which will be proved in th...

After a commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling is regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of commercial whaling has caused an urgent need to investigate the potential negative effects of whaling on the whale-watching industry. We examine the pot...

a r t i c l e i n f o A credible socioeconomic and environmental cost–benefit tool for tourism products has been lacking, despite many significant potential values, the huge impact of tourism products worldwide, and the increasingly successful application of such tools in other sectors. This paper describes development and trial of a prototype tool for holiday products that could determine the ...

This paper explores the extent to which the UK tourism industry has accepted the increased standards of performance under the new Disability Discrimination Act. The research utilises the mystery shopper technique to request basic information from two hundred and ten randomly selected companies from various sectors of the tourism industry. The request stated that the mystery shopper is visually ...

The increasing competition among territories forces the tourism industry to develop new marketing strategies capable of spreading the touristic potentiality of the territory, in order to attract more touristic flows (Dwyer et al., 2009; Zhang et al., 2009; Pantano & Naccarato, 2010). Form a tourists point of view, the industry tries to develop the offer which best fits consumers’ needs, whereas...