Medical tourism: investigating the tourism potential of the medical cosmetic market. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2016 Medical tourism has become the trademark of many destinations. Global literature suggests that cosmetic surgery, as a component of medical tourism, provides an opportunity for developing countries to stimulate tourism and related industries. Although the
Lehlohonolo Gibson Mokoena +1 more
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The Effect of Brand Equity on Brand Attitude and Brand Loyalty in Exhibition
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The purpose of this study is to examine the influential relationships among exhibition brand equity, brand attitude and brand loyalty, focusing on the participants of ‘HANATOUR International Travel Show’ to evaluate brand equity and provide some helpful ...
Shin Namju +3 more
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Exploring a fuzzy relationships among criteria for the development of community-based tourism in Malaysia: a multi-stakeholder perspective [PDF]
Journal of Humanities and Applied Social SciencesPurpose – The purpose of the study was to identify and analyze the fuzzy relationships among criteria for the development of community-based tourism (CBT) in Malaysia through a multi-stakeholder lens.
Azizah Ismail +2 more
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The impact of cultural events on the cinema and tourism in a community, BusanBusan's alternative industry to the cinema and tourism industry after the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) [PDF]
, 2002 Plan BAn event is the most exciting and fastest growing industry related to leisure. Events can be viewed as part of the new wave of alternative tourism. This is the reason that tourism organizations in many countries actively promote events.
Kwon, Hyun Jin
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Data‐Efficient Electromagnetic Surrogate Solver Through Dissipative Relaxation Transfer Learning
Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.Dissipative relaxation transfer learning (DIRTL) enables data‐efficient training of electromagnetic surrogate solvers by pretraining data generated with artificial material loss before fine‐tuning on target lossless data. The framework suppresses resonant outlier effects during early training, allowing effective adaptation to high‐amplitude resonances ...
Sunghyun Nam +2 more
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Impacts of the micro environment on airline operations in southern Africa: A literature review study. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017 Operating airlines in southern Africa has proved to be fraught with challenges in the micro environment resulting in several airlines terminating their services after short periods of operation.
O. Mhlanga, J.N. Steyn, J.P. Spencer
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Diaspora engagement in tourism crisis recovery: the case of Indonesia
, 2023 Purpose Diasporas represent a unique yet often overlooked stakeholder in tourism crisis management. Their strong bonds with their homeland often result in continued engagement with an extended community, which is valuable to their homeland during ...
William Gallagher +5 more
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Micromachined Double‐Membrane Mechanically Tunable Metamaterial for Thermal Infrared Filtering
Advanced Photonics Research, Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2025.Herein, a mechanically tunable double‐layer plasmonic metamaterial leveraging the extraordinary optical transmission effect observed in subwavelength arrays of openings within thin metal layers is presented. The concept is experimentally validated by integrating the proposed metamaterial structure into an electrostatic parallel‐plate actuator to create
Oleg Bannik +7 more
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Lessons learned from Successful Community-Based Tourism Case Studies from the Global South. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2018 Community-based tourism (CBT) has been promoted as a way of development whereby the sociocultural, environmental and economic needs of local communities are met through tourism product offerings. CBT is known to contribute to social and economic survival
Prof Albert J. Strydom +2 more
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Women's Work-Life Balance in Hospitality: Examining Its Impact on Organizational Commitment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Women account for a large proportion of the hotel industry. Work-life conflict has become one of the main obstacles to the organizational commitment of women.
Ting Liu +3 more
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