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In order to evaluate the coordinated development of a system, a method named Synchronous Coordination Judgment (SCJ) is designed, which involves such five procedures as following. Firstly, a system is divided into several subsystems and a number of elements are chosen. Then, based on some criteria these elements are divided into three ranks. Secondly, in each subsystem the number of the elements in...
The paper presents the Waiter Game, an online training tool, which has been developed to support the training activity of young learners in a hospitality professional school. The structure of the game as well as all the steps taken to develop its prototype is presented in detail. While many argue that simulations can be useful in the tourism and hospitality industry, not many applications for low...
This paper investigates the relationship between the development of tourism and economy growth. Both two time series are non-stationary, meaning there are unit root in both series and their 1st difference series are stationary. From 1994 to 2007, there is stable relationship between these two series and the number of inbound visitors is the granger reason of the change of foreign exchange income on...
The sustainable development of tourism needs the support of GIS (geographic information system) technology. The aim of this paper is to provide the basis for the Chinese tourism by summarizing the application of GIS technology. In Chinese tourism, GIS mainly applies in the following several aspects: investigation of tourism resources and the development of tourism products; tourism landscape planning...
In order to solve the problem of tourist satisfaction degree (TSD is referred to as tourist satisfaction degree) evaluation, a new method based on support vector machine (SVM is referred to as the support vector machine) is used in this paper. First of all, according to the principles of designing the tourist satisfaction index system, a more comprehensive index system is built up; then the factor...
Tourism and the Internet are the two extremely correlated partners in today world. Information technology (IT) has had revolutionized the operations, structure and strategy of marketing in travel industry. However, this is not the exact case in developing country, such as Iran. The applications of e-marketing in tourism industry are restricted by some problematic factors.In this paper after reviewing...
The suitable tourism products for the operation of e-commerce are the basis for the development of tourism e-commerce. Firstly, this paper theoretically explores the foundation of e-commerce network and the barriers of standardization for the development of tourism e-commerce products. Through studying China's current tourism e-commerce, it is found that the standardization is the main constraints...
This study estimates the economic impact of local tourist spending through its multiplier effect and develops a method to estimate the ideal economic scale of local tourist industry. We conducted quarterly survey of tourist spending in Yuri, Akita during 2006. Using survey data, we first estimate the actual scale of tourist industry in Yuri, and find that it is approximately 20 billion. Further, we...
Asian Pacific has become a rapidly growing tourism region and turn into the second best performing region in the world since 2001. Over the last decade, the average annual growth rate of international tourist visit Asia and the Pacific had reached 7.1% between 2000 and 2005. However, the decision of where to go for international tourists would be influenced by the exchange rate between mother country...
Analyzed with the supply chain management theory, the traditional tourism supply chain pattern taking the travel agency as the pattern core is falling behind the new development situation to the tourism, and making many problems on the tourism sustainable development at present. In order to solve the question and catch up the new situation, this article constructs a new tourism supply chain pattern...
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