Williams (2011), " Service dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: the co-production of innovation in the hotel industry " , Tourism Abstract This paper introduces the concept of service-dominant logic as a research paradigm in marketing management. It does so in the context of tourism management " s need to engage with wider debates within the mainstream management literatu...

Tourism-based employment has been promoted for reducing poverty in the least developed countries (LDCs). However, for employing the poor sustainably, particularly, indigenous minority groups, management has to cope with the socioeconomic disadvantages in these environments. This study aims to explore the challenges and practical strategies for human resource management (HRM) of indigenous minor...

The Tourism Education Futures Institute (TEFI) seeks to provide vision, knowledge and a framework for tourism education programs that promote global citizenship and optimism for a better world. This paper provides background on TEFI, its inception, its development and its future. The paper argues that a fundamental shift in tourism education is necessary to respond to global challenges impactin...

Tourism is viewed as information intensive industry where information plays an important role for decision and action making. Austria, along with its long history on music, culture, and nature, unsurprisingly attracts lots of tourist and Austrian tourism industry contributes significantly to the local economy. Semantic technologies open up new ways of facilitating effective integration of (tour...

The information revolution is drastically reshaping global society and pushing the world toward information based economy. Commercial activities such as information gathering, shopping, trading, collaboration, and distribution are changing, and companies are forced to adapt their strategies. The importance of information and communication technology (ICT), especially of the Web, in the travel a...

With the rapid development of China’s tourism industry, e-commerce will bring about new opportunity and challenge to tourism. Hotels and travel agencies play very important roles in tourism industry and their level of application of IT prominently shows the management level and information process of whole tourism. This study uses content analysis to evaluate the web sites service of travel age...

iran’s unique attractions and destinations make it of great potentiality for utilising tourism industry. according to statistics of the international and national organization tourism, the situation of tourism in iran is not suitable, which is a sign of an undesired situation in the industry and failing to make use of the existing capabilities and potentials of the country. therefore, this rese...

This paper reviews current research on supply chain management (SCM) within the context of tourism. SCM in the manufacturing industry has attracted widespread research interest over the past two decades, whereas studies of SCM in the tourism industry are very limited. Stakeholders in the tourism industry interact with each other to resolve their divergent business objectives across different op...

Introduction: Health tourism industry is growing in border provinces of the country, especially in the areas where tourists feel more comfortable as a result of distance from stressful urban life. This research was done to promote Health Tourism Industry in Ardabil. Methods: This is an analytic study. The data were gathered by means of library technique f...