The World Tourism Organisation established the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET) in 1999. Two years later, the … global code of ethics are a ‘comprehensive set of ten principles whose purpose is to guide stakeholders in tourism …, local communities, tourism operators and tourists, concerning preservation of the environment. The Code features a voluntary …

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …

The future of tourism industry will be affected by major social, economic, political, environmental, and technological … forming but will have deep and long-term effects on all economic sectors, including tourism. The main aim of this paper is to … analyze global megatrends and their impact on tourism. After analyzing current megatrends, they are also discussed from the …

provides the principles which should underpin all heritage developments designed to attract tourism on a major scale …

This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference, with the theme “Culture and Tourism in a Smart … International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism. Highlighting the contributions made by numerous writers to the … advancement of tourism research, this book presents a critical academic discourse on sustainable practices in the smart tourism …

In the globalization era, many products in the tourism industry are imported from other economies; whereas other … products may be exported as intermediates to other economies. Researchers have assessed the economic impact of tourism for more … economic contribution of tourism to Thailand as well as to the global economy. Findings suggest that tourism in Thailand …

terrorism externalities on tourism. The geographical and temporal scopes are 163 countries and the period 2010-2015. The … impact of these terror-related incidents in order to induce positive net effects on tourism. This finding is robust to all …

Tourism is an important economic activity in most countries around the world. As well as its direct economic impact …, the industry has significant indirect and induced impacts. The outlook for the tourism sector in 2017 remains robust and … number of challenging headwinds.In tourism, GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 3.8%, up from 3.1% in 2016. As nations …

This study investigated the sustainability of global tourism in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Given the … invalid because landlocked countries reflect higher levels of tourism persistence …