For the healthy development of regional tourism systems, performance evaluation is vital for regulators so that they can determine the source of inefficiency to enhance systems’ competitiveness through a series of systematic policy plans. Past research
In this paper, the method of fuzzy pattern recognition is adopted in more precisely evaluating the actual state of eco-tourism development regarding a given tourist destination in comparison with the three standard patterns (saturated/optimal/deficient) of development degree. The research process is as...
In the present study, we used a dual research methodology to explore how BI and BA serve as distinct yet interconnected facets in the tourism industry. The major research question addressed in this study was as follows:In what ways do Business Intelligence and Business Analytics manifest as disti...
A paper to the British Tourist Authority Conference on Tourism and the Environment (Royal Festival Hall, London, 11 November 1971), by Sir Mark Henig, Chairman, English Tourist Board - ScienceDirectELSEVIERGovernments and Tourism
The paper proposes a methodology which includes a longitudinal study of three UK case studies in the four year run-up to the 2012 Olympics. These case studies (London Borough of Greenwich, Canterbury and Durham) will be the subject of quantitative and qualitative analysis which the authors hope...
the more important criterion is assigned a value from 2 to 9 and the less important criterion is assigned a value from 1/9 to 1/2. In the case of equal significance, the criteria receive a grade of 1. On the basis of six pairwise comparisons, six sets of weights were determined, fro...
When the tourism attractiveness of a non-port city is very large, it will be hard to increase the overall visitation volume by increasinga, as the impact of a single node on the whole network has its upper limit. This raises the question of upgrading efficiency, i.e., the increment of ...
Travel Question and Answer (Q&A) platforms are widely used by travelers to exchange information online. This paper examined one such platform, Ctrip Q&A, to better understand the features of high-quality answers. The questions were first categorized into four types of information required by tourists...
Relating to RQ1, the descriptive analysis supported the answer to this question. The geographical distribution found that authors from European countries (Spain, Italy, and Portugal) and Asia (China and the Republic of Korea) have published the most documents on sustainable and smart tourism (90.0...
To answer this question, this exploratory study aims to determine how governance is internalized in tourism destination organizations, to measure the level of governance internalization in tourism destinations, and whether previous positions on governance actually translate into management. To evaluate ...