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Progress in information technology and tourism management: 20 years on and 10 years after the Internet—The state of eTourism research [PDF]

open access: yesTourism Management, 2008
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 ...
Dimitrios Buhalis, Rob Law
exaly   +2 more sources

Residents' support for tourism development: The role of residents' place image and perceived tourism impacts [PDF]

open access: yesTourism Management, 2014
Drawing on the triple bottom line approach for tourism impacts (economic, socio-cultural and environmental) and adopting a non-forced approach for measuring residents' perception of these impacts, this study explores the role of residents' place image in
Dimitrios Stylidis, Jason Sit
exaly   +2 more sources

Tourism and Millennium Development Goals: tourism for global development?

Current Issues in Tourism, 2011
It is estimated that tourism contributes approximately 9% to global production and employs more than 220 million people across the North and South.
Jarkko Saarinen   +2 more
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Abundance of tourism resources and regional tourism development

2014 22nd International Conference on Geoinformatics, 2014
“Curse of Resource” is a well-known proposition in development economics. Does this phenomenon exist in tourism development? In this paper, based on the provincial level data, it is studied whether regional tourism development depends on the abundance of tourism resources or other constraints.
Junni Wang, Suocheng Dong, Yongkun Wan
openaire   +1 more source

NGOs, tourism and development

2019
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have taken on a prominent role within the tourism industry to generate wider sustainable development. Their foundations and purpose can be conceptualized as being located with development as opposed to purely business and market paradigms, nevertheless they are often manifestations of private initiatives.
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Tourism for Development

2019
The Tourism Diagnostic Toolkit provides systematic guidance for identifying and assessing opportunities and constraints in the tourism ecosystem, as well as identifying potential points of entry for WBG interventions. The toolkit includes information on the WBG's current tourism offer and the tourism diagnostic process, a set of indicators and ...
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Tourism and Development

Tourism Recreation Research, 1997
A case study of tourism development in the Smoky Mountain gateway communities of Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Cherokee, North Carolina, since 1970 was undertaken to evaluate the industry's second- and third-order economic impacts. From a first-order, aggregate perspective the impacts appear beneficial, but from the resident popu lations ...
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Development Tourism

2016
Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a remarkable approach to tourism, one which often compels tourists to become agents of development through solidarity. Drawing on her experiences of working in
openaire   +1 more source

Tourism Development in Turkey

Annals of Tourism Research, 1999
Tavmergen, IP, Oral, S
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