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Jul 10, 2026
Pilgrimage routes blend religious, cultural, and recreational travel in ways standard tourism statistics separate poorly. Using route-registration data and exit surveys from 2,100 walkers, we segment motivations and spe…
Jul 8, 2026
The Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development: Issues, Challenges and Debates, which took place on 25th—28th April 2017, in Kathmandu, Nepal, bought together academics, policy makers, politicians and practitioners t…
Jul 8, 2026
Sustainable events education requires a collaborative approach between higher education institutions (HEIs), the industry and students. This paper assesses graduating students’ experiences with the BA (Hons) Event Manag…
Jul 8, 2026
The generation of solid waste is one of the major environmental issues in mountain areas with high concentrations of tourism. To improve the waste situation in sensitive mountain areas, visiting tourists need to be awar…
Jul 8, 2026
The study intends to analyze the change of management culture within the Campania Public Tourism Sector (CPTS). The aim of the study is to evaluate, through the SWOT analysis, the elements that are relevant to the chang…
Jul 8, 2026
The economic prominence of the Tourism industry is very huge which cannot be underestimated. Travel & Tourism is set for a milestone year as the industry’s contribution to the worldwide economy during the year 2016 exce…
Jul 8, 2026
The paradoxical attributes of tourism for being good and bad at a time makes it open for criticism. This paper questions whether this dualism is inherent in its character or is circumstantial. No stakeholder wants touri…
Jul 8, 2026
Sustainable tourism development in the Caribbean is inhibited by several challenges such as diseconomies of scale and scope and other structural and resource constraints. These challenges are further exacerbated by the …
Jul 8, 2026
Sustainability has been coined ‘one of the most successful concepts in tourism and event studies and has experienced exponential growth since the mid-1980s’ (Hall, 2010). Despite its emergence as a popular concept, sust…
Jul 8, 2026
Sustainability is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland Report, 1987). Hotels today, being one of the important co…
Jul 8, 2026
Tourism acts as an economic incentive that improves the livelihood of an indigenous community residing enclosed in protected areas, helps to mitigate existing park people conflict and paves a path towards sustainable bi…
Jul 8, 2026
Many tourism scholars have recognised food as a research topic, and not only because of its nutritional importance (Hjalager & Richards, 2002; Hall & Sharples, 2003; Cohen & Avieli, 2004). This can be credited to the fa…
Jul 8, 2026
The tourism industry is fragile because tourists are highly vulnerable to various crises and disasters. Because of the safety concerns of tourists, the tourism industry can suffer as a direct result of internal politica…
Jul 8, 2026
In recent years, Greece has become one of the main gateways for immigrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. The enormous humanitarian crisis that has taken place mainly on the northeastern Aegean islands has promp…
Jul 8, 2026
Drawing upon the findings of an empirical study of ecotourism in Crete (Saatsakis, 2018), this industry focussed paper discusses and reflects upon the development of successful ecotourism for the Island and its well-bei…
Jul 8, 2026
Self-drive tourism (SDT) has become a potential alternative of tourism in Bali, an island that has dozens of tourist attractions scattered all over it. Unfortunately, Bali still has an insufficient integrated system of …
Jul 8, 2026
This study intends to identify factors that can aid the management of change in the Italian public tourism sector (IPTS). The bureaucracy in IPTS were analysed so as to identify organizational typologies and assess unde…
Jul 8, 2026
Complex interactions among human behaviour, organisational processes, and consumer experiences characterise the tourism and hospitality field. Traditional symmetrical research methods often impose rigid models and linea…
Jul 8, 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming hospitality by reshaping operational processes, guest experience, labour dynamics, and strategic decision-making. This study offers a critical, multi-dimensional assessment o…
Jul 3, 2026
Tourism is a lively and complex field shaped by numerous push and pull factors determining how and why tourists visit attractions. Understanding this dynamic relationship is necessary for stakeholders seeking to attract…
Jul 3, 2026
Tourists’ sustainable behavior is a topic of great interest to scholars. This study addresses a gap in the literature by examining the relationships among personality traits, sustainability values, and willingness to pa…
Jul 3, 2026
The inauguration of the Atal Tunnel in October 2020 altered the tourism environment of Lahaul Valley in Himachal Pradesh, India and allowed year-round accessibility to the region. With this accessibility came a rapid in…
Jun 25, 2026
Culture motivated trips are on the increase since 1992. As a result, many tourism destinations are using cultural and heritage resources as drivers for destination attractiveness and competitiveness. The creation of cul…
Jun 25, 2026
Scholars and practitioners gathered for the 9th International Conference on Tourism and Sustainable Development conference in Kathmandu between 16th and 18th May, 2018, following a very successful conference in the same…