—This study examined the relationship between socio-economic and demographic attributes of local residents and their attitudes toward tourism in Washington, NC, a small community where tourism is in its development stage. Residents’ attitudes toward tourism were measured by adapting 20 items from the Tourism Impact Attitude Scale developed by Lankford and Howard (1994). Factor analysis resulted...

This research endeavor explores four biometric technologies and their potential usage in the tourism and hospitality industry. This paper begins with a review of viable biometric technologies and continues with a discussion of their potential applications to tourism and hospitality businesses. Various tourism and hospitality scenarios in which biometrics can be used are explored. The article co...

With the improvement of the people’s leisure means, the development of tourism is becoming increasingly quick. Tourism security is the most crucial factor in the development of tourism industry. Experts have been looking for travel safety evaluation methods, however the results are unsatisfactory. Combining computer software and data analysis software (AHP analysis) together, and thereby evalua...

Tourism industry has become one of the biggest and dynamic industries in the world, giving a great impetus to the economic development. However, its vulnerability and the crisis management have been the momentous problem. The findings of researches and practices have shown that tourism crisis will possibly take place due to the destruction of system balance, which is similar to the ecological c...

Sichuan has abundant tourist resources; the Government confirmed the tourism industry as the six pillar industries of the cross-century development in Sichuan. In recent years, the ratio of tourism to the province's GDP increased year by year. Based on stability test of the VAR model, this paper uses impulse response functions and variance decomposition method for econometric analysis, by using...

International tourism has increased exponentially since 1950. With this growth the industry has become significantly more competitive, and the marketing role of National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) has taken on added significance. Correspondingly, research related to the marketing aspects of international tourism has increased. With this in mind, this paper provides a brief look at the growth ...

This paper reviews the published articles on eTourism in the past 20 years. Using a wide variety of sources, mainly in the tourism literature, this paper comprehensively reviews and analyzes prior studies in the context of Internet applications to Tourism. The paper also projects future developments in eTourism and demonstrates critical changes that will influence the tourism industry structure...

This paper investigated the safety factors considered by visitors to the Kwangju Biennale 2000 and analyzed the correlation between the safety factors and the demographic characteristics of the visitors. Global tourism increased throughout the 1990s, with the biggest surge occurring in the Asia-Pacific region. Long-distance travel is also increasing, and at a rate faster than the global average...

Background: Health tourism uses a set of services that promote the health and spirit of individuals through weather, nature, or medical care. Entrepreneurship is a process of exploring and using value creation opportunities in the economic, cultural, social, and health sectors. The present study aimed to investigate the development of Iran’s health tourism system based on Stevensonchr('39')s en...