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The Author defines the concept of "Time-Sharing" as a tourism business, while also defining its Online functionality. In this practical research of this type of tourism business, the author identifies 3 key elements of the business: the real estate, the timeshare business administration and the connected services. The author sketches the global dimension of this type of tourism business, also showing some of the impediments to this business growing.Next, there are defined the quantifiable elements of the business, with the observation that these were evaluated in regional context, but also underlining the fact that the logical and element proportions can be generalizable. Finally, the author presents some conclusions referring to the possibility of extending this business in the future.
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The Author defines the concept of "Time-Sharing" as a tourism business, while also defining its Online functionality. In this practical research of this type of tourism business, the author identifies 3 key elements of the business: the real estate, the timeshare business administration and the connected services. The author sketches the global dimension of this type of tourism business, also showing some of the impediments to this business growing.Next, there are defined the quantifiable elements of the business, with the observation that these were evaluated in regional context, but also underlining the fact that the logical and element proportions can be generalizable. Finally, the author presents some conclusions referring to the possibility of extending this business in the future.
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The main objective of the article is to define the concept and fundamental strategic assumptions for the International Documentation and Research Centre on Industrial Heritage for Tourism. To accomplish this objective, the paper presents the results of in-depth interviews conducted among internal and external stakeholders of the International Documentation and Research Centre on Industrial Heritage for Tourism concerning the expectations for future directions of the Centre’s development and the effects of its activity. Then, based on the conducted consultations and the diagnosis of the Centre’s activity to date, the fundamental assumptions of the Centre’s strategy were specified and the key areas of activity were identified. They included: (1) archiving and research actions, and (2) educational and promotional actions.
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The main aim of the article is the assessment of development prospects for the industrial heritage protection institutions in Poland on the example of the Górny Śląsk region. To achieve this aim, the paper presents the results of the SWOT analysis and the PESTEL analysis of the International Documentation and Research Centre on Industrial Heritage for Tourism. According to the obtained results, the Centre’s strengths – including the financial support from the Zabrze City Office – and the opportunities in the form of increasing popularity of industrial tourism allow for a positive assessment of the Centre’s development prospects. Nevertheless, its continued existence and development require a complete strategy and its consistent implementation.
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Purpose – This paper describes the marketing potential of film-induced tourism in marketing Japan, as a popular tourism destination for non-Asian visitors. In particular, it focuses on the popular culture and on engaging young people from Europe, America, and Australia in discovering and promoting its cultural heritage.Design/Methodology/Approach – The number of Western tourists to Japan rose by 50 % between 2010 and 2015. Many of these tourists are attracted by the films associated with Japan in one way or another. We assume that, even though the majority of incoming tourists in Japan are Chinese visitors, the marketing potential of film-induced tourism in Japan represents a source of untapped potential. One can trace the increase in the popularity of Japan as the tourism destination to a number of new Western films taking place in Japan.Findings and implications – We employ the monthly data on the combined box office revenues of recent films set in Japan, as well as the monthly statistics on the number of visitors from Australia, Europe, and North America. We find causality between the popularity of the films and the number of tourists from the destinations that are mostly impacted by those films.Limitations – The research is limited by the issue of popularity of Western culture and films in Asia. One should remember that just 3 million out of 19 million foreign tourists that visited Japan in 2015 were non-Asian.Originality – The popularity of films either related to or taking place in Japan is enormous in the Western world. Headed by the recent 2015 Hungarian dark comedy “Liza, the Fox-Fairy”, there is a whole array of films drawing from both exotic and cosmopolitan Japanese culture. The Japanese setting offers a picturesque scenery for melodramas, such as “Lost in translation” (USD 119.7 million in box office revenues) or “Memories of a Geisha” (USD 162 million), horrors and thrillers, including “The Grudge” (USD 187 million) or “Godzilla” (USD 528 million), as well as action movies, for instance “Kill Bill Volume 1” (USD 333 million) or “The Wolverine” (USD 417 million).
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Purpose – The Schist Village network is a sustainable development project in Portugal’s Pinhal Interior region that includes 27 villages located in the central inland area of the country. Overall, this study sets out evidence about the motivations, interests, behaviors, and images of visitors/tourists (tourism consumers) regarding the Schist Villages in the area. Design/Methodology/Approach – The sample of individuals interviewed includes a total of 223 individuals (59 international and 164 national tourists), all of whom personally answered the questionnaire.Findings and implications – Through analysis of the survey results obtained, it is possible to chart a profile of Schist Village visitors/tourists, ascertain their preferences and the key attributes associated with the image of this tourist destination and, based on these, put forward strongly focused orientations and guidelines to help develop future marketing plans for this territory.Limitations – One limitation stems from how the data was gathered and analyzed constitutes but a mere “moment” in a fairly vast and dynamic universe given that the questionnaires were completed across a defined and fairly brief period of time. The fact that the questionnaires were handed out by network partners effectively excluded from the study all those tourism consumers who travel and visit the territory without any direct recourse to the services of the aforementioned partners.Originality – This study presents an easy and clear way to segment the market that could be used by several stakeholders in order to improve their targeting activities.
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Spa tourism is not adequately treated in the development strategies of Knjaževac. Much more attention is given to the development of tourism in the mountain Stara Planina, as idea that rural tourism could become an important source of income for the population of this area. Thermal water sources, only five kilometers away from Knjaževac, have not been used for tourist purposes. The goal of this paper is to analyze the potential of Rgoška spa for tourism development in this region, with emphasis on experiences from Europe.
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According to its physical-geographical and socio-economical characteristics, the municipality of Negotin belongs to the territories with favorable tourist potentials. In order to scientifically validate this fact, in this paper tourist valorization has been performed using quantitative-qualitative method, giving attractiveness ranking values, based on which conclusions have been made on the direction and forms of tourist potential. The results obtained from tourist valorization have shown that the hydrographic potential and fauna are rated as good (3), and have the highest general tourist value among natural resources. General values are graded as satisfactory (1.8) and the climate is graded as unsatisfactory (1.2). Valorization of anthropogenic characteristics gave the maximal general value (4) to cultural-historical objects including sacral objects - monasteries and churches and the Rajac pimnice. The Rajac pimnice have an especially high value, as they represent, for us, a unique value that can be considered in diverse ways and adjusted to tourist utilization. Based on the performed tourist valorization it can be noted that the general tourist value of the municipality of Negotin is of regional ranking, though anthropogenic potentials are of national ranking and part of them, as emphasized, are objects that are internationally important. The basic shortcoming is the low road quality leading to places of important tourist value, even though the road network is favorable, and there are also many weaknesses in the receptive tourist base. Improvement of these shortcomings would create a good image of the municipality of Negotin in continental tourism of the Republic of Serbia.
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The monuments of folk architecture have its historical, artistic and tourist value. They illustrate the characteristics of local culture and way of life, and therefore should be preserved for the future. The main touristic functions in them can be cognitive, educational, fun, and also vacation and recreation. If we would like to keep the traditional folk architecture, it is necessary to protect vulnerable areas at the source or in the open air museums. This paper presents an overview of the ethno-parks and other facilities in the Mačva, Šabac, Šabačka Pocerina and Posavina, which seems preserved examples of folk architecture and architecture from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, are part of the cultural heritage not only of these areas, but also the whole of Serbia.
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Relationship between urban development and tourism is a significant process in Europe today. Development of tourism has caused many organizational changes in urban environment. In the middle of the 20th century cultural and historical heritage in the cities was impetus of development of tourism in European cities. Nowadays, in many European cities tourism is recognized as a mean of further economic development. Strategy of polycentricity, outlined in European spatial development perspective is supporting that process, too. Many tourist centers and metropolitan tourist areas have been developed. In the period from 1996. to 2007. number of visitors in European cultural capitals was growing continuously by rate of 25,6%. In the same period, the number of international tourist arrivals increased by rate of only 7%.
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Sabac is an important centre in the cultural geography of Serbia. A great number of architectural buildings that are listed in cultural-historic heritage of national interest were built in the city. The goal of this work is to note and highlight the values of architectural cultural heritage of Sabac, which can be valorized for the purpose of tourism. The restoration, protection and inclusion of architectural values in the tourist offer of Sabac, combined with the other types of city tourism such as the event and cultural tourism, contribute to the affirmation of this city as a tourist centre of West Serbia.
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Urban tourist destinations or City Break destinations are representing one of main destination products on tourist market. City Break destinations are big cities, administrative, economic and political centers of states and regions. These cities are 'open' 24 hours per day, seven days in week. Inside these tourist destination we can find different range of products (culture, entertainment, recreation, leisure, history, modern infrastructure). In these destinations season is not present and it lasts trough out the year. Promotional campaigns in City Break destinations are trying to create distinguished images in tourists mind as also as on investors, consumers and future residents. They emphasize advantages that those cities are delivering to their consumers, but often we forget that all these cities are having specific geographic landscapes. In the era of limiting of mass tourism to preserve resources for future generations and emphasizing the importance of sustainable development for tourism perspectives, the importance of specific geographic landscapes inside urban destinations for their further development as tourist destinations on their overall development is slightly neglected.
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This work considers important natural conditions of distribution of agricultural production, cattle breeding in particular, and also potentials for tourism development on Mokra mountain. Half-nomadic cattle breeding in mountain settlements was highly developed in recent past. It represented the main source of existence for local highlanders. Today it is neglected and in phase of dying out. The mountain disposes with excellent natural potentials for ecological and mountain tourism, but these potentials are unused.
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Haymaking has always been the most important period for the existence of the population settled in the mountainous regions. There are numerous of competitions in haymaking organized at the meadows which present folklore, religion, customs and whole tradition of mountain regions of Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specific ness of this events, completed with artistic and entertaining programs and connected with other social and geographical characteristics of the area of maintenance, present important part of total tourist offer. The work, according the economic and geographic criteria, separate competitions in haymaking of those which are strong enough and one that has the potential to become a leading force of destination and carrier of faster and better development of tourism. The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of this tourism events and to determine their rank.
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The article dials with the main description of tourism as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The author in-vestigates stages of the development of Ukrainian tourism with determination of following phases as prototourism, tourism of Soviet period, up-to-date tourism of Ukraine. The article contains key investigations of tourism in a humanitarian sphere, theoretical background for researches in the field of tourism and last changes in this field.
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The paper examines the dynamics of change and evolution of the problem field of tourism in terms of interpretations of tourism as a phenomenon of mass culture by Western scholars during the second half of XX – beginning of XXI century.
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This study contributes to the field of the cultural economics by conducting an economic impact assessment of the three recently established regional concert halls in Latvia while focusing on induced impact. The overall aim of this study has been to calculate the indirect impact of each regional concert hall on its home-economy in 2016 and to analyse the attendee profiles and what their spending habits reveal about each concert hall and its mission fulfilment. During the research, the author has used a quantitative research methodology based on the best practices of economic impact assessment. The main source of data is the attendee survey, which is aimed to find out the attendee profile of three regional concert halls (place of residence, distance covered to arrive to the event, the type of event chosen, the size of the group, use of lodging) and their consumption habits (spending on cafes, indirect spending, spending on souvenirs etc.). The main findings show that induced impact on their home economies is significant. The author has measured the induced impact that stems from nonresident attendee consumption habits in each of the newly constructed concert halls for 2016. The main factors that create divergence in the final induced impact are proximity to Riga, the capital city of Latvia, purchasing power, size of the host city in terms of inhabitants, access to alternative sources of entertainment and the number of years in operation. The distinction between attendee profiles in each of the concert hall creates a great base for further and better targeted attendee attraction.
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Tourism is an important section of economy representing a huge development potential. It has a large share in creating workplaces, the national product, etc. The market economy results in a situation where there is strong competition to win customers. On the world’s competitiveness list, Poland is ranked on the 50th place and holds a fairly low position, i.e. 96th, among 136 countries with respect to a broadly understood tourism policy. The tourism policy, as other areas of the socio-economic policy, remain a domain of the government administration. The purpose of the article is to present the results of research into how this role is played by the administration of the Torun County and the 9 communes it consists of.
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The purpose of the article is to define the role and place of natural and man-made structures of the world in the ensuring of the priority development calendar-astronomical tourist destinations as a separate segment of event tourism. Methodology. The research methodology is the complex analysis that combines several methods. The system method can consider calendar - astronomical objects as parts of a whole culture, their manifestations in the material, spiritual and social spheres of ethnic groups, the typological method is used to highlight different types of buildings on the basis of their characteristic features. Taken together, the information, obtained by these methods can bring us closer to understanding the essence of the phenomenon of culture. Scientific novelty. The author argues that an important factor in the thousand-year existence of the cultural traditions of many people megalithic structures was actually calendar - astronomical basis. Various customs and rituals of heaven worship based on them. They has not lost their relevance even today in the conditions of national traditions and the growing interest in other cultures. Conclusions. Ancient calendars are based on solar or lunar cycles, were closely related to the economic activities of the people. The day among seasons meant the beginning of a new cycle of work. Therefore, each nation had its own holiday and natural or man-made structures, which helped pinpoint the onset of the season and in the modern globalization world, they have the potential individual segment event tourism.
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