Tourism is now well recognised as an engine of growth in the various economies in the world. Several countries have … transformed their economies by developing their tourism potential. Tourism has great capacity to generate large-scale employment … and additional income sources to the skilled and unskilled. Today the concept of traditional tourism has been changed …

Among the positive benefits attri¬buted to the social and cultural aspects of tourism are the promotion of good …¬will, understanding and peace among people across cultures. The role of tourism as an ambassador and vehicle of international understand …¬ing and peace has even been acknowledged by the Un¬ited Nations. World Tourism Conference in 1960 in Manila has de¬clared that …

State is a catalyst in tourism planning not just because of economic development and poverty reduction but also for … national image and cultural identity. The paper examines the role of state in tourism development policies in post conflict … Cambodia by discussing the talks/speeches made by Prime Minister Hun Sen in respect of tourism development policies in Cambodia …

The reasons for the deficient performance of Ionian Islands tourism in terms of in coming revenues expressed in USD and … were analyzed with the use of the Decision Tree tool. The issue of competitiveness of the tourism product was assessed. The … development of alternative forms of tourism is proposed as a means of improving competitiveness and restoring sustainability in …

Travel and tourism industry, like many industries, displays particularities of pricing. These arise partly from custom … and practice. The pricing decisions can be affected by tourism demand, costs, the competition in the field, tourism supply … tourism industry has its own features which have important effects on pricing. Taking into consideration all these elements …

-developed Greek tourist island. While they themselves are producers of tourism services, by going on pleasure trips to Thailand they …

goods to attract tourism, as an example of the waste of resources of EU ambitious planning for the economic convergence. The … empirical analysis shows that the variables relating to cultural sites, education sites and sites with tourism or tourism … sites of Calabria lower than before while on average in Italy has had a great increase. On the other hand tourism in …

tourism field, under the influence of a qualitative variable (the region), that allows the sharing of the population in …

. Using a standard gravity model of bilateral tourism flows between 200 countries from 1995 to 2006, this paper measures a … that mega-events promote tourism but the gain varies depending on the type of mega-event, the participating countries, the …