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This study is designed to explore the relationship between the Wenchuan earthquake and tourist perceptions of it, at Jiuzhaigou valley in China. Data were analyzed from a sample of 196 first-time and repeat visitors to the Jiuzhaigou Valley during National Day, the first Golden Week of tourism after the earthquake. The results indicate that: (1) The influence of this earthquake on the tourism industry...
Based on information asymmetry, this paper analyzes the moral hazard of developing tourism resources in China by the principal-agent theory. It links tourism revenues to the developing compensation. To solve the moral hazard, this paper designs an incentive and restrictive mechanism. Based on the model, the problems in the development are analyzed, and proposals of improving the mechanism are proposed.
The international medical tourism industry has developed rapidly in recent years, becoming one of the emerging industries in the world. Especially in Asian countries, business models and strategic alliances have been developing actively. However, besides product innovation and customer satisfaction, human information management and development are the key success factors to a new business. This paper...
The MICE industry, tourism and real estate are called the three pillar industries of urban development. The MICE industry is the first choice for urban development around the world. In China, the MICE industry is still at the initial stage, so it can't develop orderly and healthily without Government's guidance and support. While facing the main problems of the current government's behaviors, it must...
The tourism website has become a pivotal tool for tourism destination marketing. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the internet tourism information of 30 local governments' official tourism websites in China. Analysis was concentrated on eight items such as foreign language, site counter, menu item, sitemap, search engine, e-map, information update and contact point, link site. This study...
Economics, culture, environment, etc. all received a series of serious damage due to the earthquake on 12-05-2008 in Sichuan. This areas with abundant different ethnic culture and attractive landscapes, is badly affected by earthquakes. So everything needs rebuilding including the tourism. Rebuilding is hard work for all of elements had changed after 5,12 Earthquake and focusing on these changes,...
The bargaining between Asiana Airlines and Tottori Prefecture in Japan on continuation of international flight between Seoul in Korea and Yonago of Tottori in Japan in 2007 is analyzed. Nash bargaining model is employed to validate the bargaining power of both parties. Moreover, Regression Analyses are executed to find significant factors that have effects on flight users. Among others, the study...
This paper evaluated the e-commerce function of 31 provinces' official tourism websites in mainland China from the perspective of Internet marketing. The assessment was conducted mainly from the following five aspects: marketing strategy, information serving, transaction processing, technology supporting and website operating. The results indicate that most official tourism Web sites are at the preliminary...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the empirical relationship between tourism foreign exchange income and economic growth based on Chinese province-level data. We build a sample which comprises annual observations in 30 Chinese provinces over the period 1995 to 2007. With this sample the number of time series observation is relatively large and of the same order of magnitude as the number of...
It has been proved by the practice that effective emergency management after a disaster still causes an irreparable loss. The paper explores the difference between risk management and emergency management in tourist destination based on the theory and practice of disaster risk management in tourism destination in China and abroad. Then the paper studies the methodology of establishing disaster risk...
Ecotourism is a mode of sustainable tourism development that can bring about good economic benefit to the local place, which has been proved by many successful cases at home and abroad. Economic benefit acquired from domestic ecotourism development is mainly distributed among the local residents, the governments and the developers. The residents can obtain vested income from land acquisition compensation...
This paper analyzes the suburb tourism trend based on system dynamics method. It applies SD (system dynamics) method in system analysis, which starts with problempsilas structure and discarding trivialities. An empirical study is made to find the trend of suburb tourism due to new holiday policy. The finding of this paper is very useful for local authorities who want to facilitate the development...
The Central-East European region have undergone a radical change in the last 15 years. All of the political changes in regime also aimed at stabilizing the economies of the countries. Methods and short- and long-term results were different but each countries of the region strongly focuses on developing the sector of tourism, as they all realize the development opportunities of the service industry...
Medical tourism is growing rapidly and forming a profitable industry which everyone is wanting a share of, as well as Shanghai government. Shanghai government plans to develop medical tourism and takes it as a part of becoming the centre of modern service industry. However, the best hospitals are state owned and they are not competent to do marketing and promotion. So the international clinics affiliated...
The Consortium for Integrated Municipal Sanitation Systems has developed a framework for evaluating a community's capacity to sustain the delivery of municipal sanitation services. The framework is applicable to planning for other sustainable community services. This project uses this framework to assess and evaluate education and tourism services in two different low-income communities. The factors...
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