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Urban tourism as a special type of cultural tourism

A Research Agenda for Urban Tourism, 2022
Cultural Tourism is a key sector of the global tourism market, accounting for just under 40% of all international travel (UNWTO, 2018). Cities have played a central role in the recent development of the cultural tourism market, particularly as the focus ...
Greg Richards
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Museums in former residences: castles, palaces and manor houses

Tourism, 2009
The article concerns former residences in Poland and their contemporary use as museums. The authors present the history of Polish residences, the development of museums in castles, palaces and manor houses, their spatial distribution and the relations ...
Beata Krakowiak, Jolanta Latosińska
doaj   +1 more source

Research on Intelligent Recommendation Business Model of Tourism Enterprise Value Platform from the Perspective of Value Cocreation

Complexity, 2021
With the rapid development of China’s economy, people pay attention to their own quality of life, and tourism has become the first choice for people from all walks of life to relax themselves.
Qiongying Wang, Daijian Tang
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Simulation of land utilization change and ecosystem service value evolution in Tibetan area of Sichuan Province

Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2023
Dynamic monitoring and prediction of ecosystem service value (ESV) under land utilization change is of great significance to maintaining regional ecological security.
Wenheng Li, Mingshun Xiang, Linsen Duan, Yan Liu, Xiaofeng Yang, Hao Mei, Yan Wei, Jinghui Zhang, Lanlan Deng   +8 more
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#LoveCapeTown: An African Urban Tourism Model [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2022
Urban tourism has become an important sector within the global tourism industry as it is able to serve a range of tourists, satisfy their needs, and exceed their expectations.
Ruan Henning
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Drivers of success in implementing sustainable tourism policies in urban areas [PDF]

, 2015
The existing literature in the field of sustainable tourism highlights a number of barriers that impede the implementation of policies in this area. Yet, not many studies have so far considered the factors that would contribute to putting this concept ...
Altinay L., Berg B. L., Bull P., Butler R. W., Connell J., DCMS, DCMS, Dodds R., Dodds R., Dredge D., Dwyer L., Finn M., Godfrey K., Goeldner C. R., Gössling S., Hall C. M., Inskeep E., Kerr W. R., Lane B., Law C. M., Liburd J. J., Maitland R., Page S. J., Pigram J. J., Sharpley R., Singh T. V., Testoni L., UNWTO, UNWTO, Veal A. J., Veal A. J., Wall G., Yin R. K.   +32 more
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Tourism-led economic contribution, interregional repercussion effects, and intersectoral propagation activities in Tokyo Metropolitan

Journal of Economic Structures, 2022
This study aims to investigate the contribution of visitors’ expenditure to Tokyo Metropolitan’s economy including its decomposition, the interregional repercussion effect between Tokyo and the rest of Japan, and the intersectoral propagation activities ...
Oscar Tiku, Tetsuo Shimizu
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A history of vision and plans for the transformation of a coastal tourism city into a knowledge city: Australia's Gold Coast [PDF]

, 2016
Many coastal mass tourism centres have attempted to reinvent themselves as they have grown from informal coastal towns into large cities. Lifestyle migration boosts urban growth as these cities become home to ‘permanent tourists’ attracted by the ...
O'Hare, Daniel
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Research on Investment Risk Management of Chinese Prefabricated Construction Projects Based on a System Dynamics Model

Buildings, 2017
Prefabricated construction, a new direction for the future development of the Chinese construction industry, can maximize the requirements of “green”. As a new form of green building, prefabricated construction is of particular interest.
Ming Li, Ganbin Li, Yanqing Huang, Liyan Deng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring “gothic tourism”: a new form of urban tourism? [PDF]

International Journal of Tourism Cities, 2021
Purpose The concept of “Gothic tourism” has recently been proposed within the discipline of English Literature. Such tourism is claimed to be a distinct form of special interest tourism grounded in familiarity with the Gothic, distinctive aesthetics, and experiences of frights and scares.
Light, Duncan, Richards, Steven, Ivanova, P.   +2 more
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