Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Mary Catherine E. Kingery-Page / Currently, about 15-20 percent of the worldwide tourist industry, or 70-90 billion dollars can be accounted for annually by mountain tourism (Price et al. 1997). The base of mountain tourism lies within the profound natural features of the surrounding mountain landscape. Therefore, maintaining clean cool air, dramatic variations in topography, and scenic beauty of both the physical and cultural landscapes are imperative. The following project addresses the issue of designing a sustainable mixed use community within the broader context of a top rated mountain resort. Within the last decade as public awareness of green practices has increased, so has the public’s knowledge of terms such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), sustainability, and mixed-use development. Starting in 1995 a sustainable visioning plan emerged for the future development of the Greater Wasatch in Utah. The project, titled Envision Utah Quality Growth Plan, has been widely recognized as one of the country’s most successful efforts to involve the public in regional visioning. The proposed addition to Park City Mountain Resort in the Wasatch Front has been fueled by a desire to create an ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable mixed-use development. The Envision Utah Quality Growth Plan and a precedent study in Whistler, combined with literature by Peter Calthorpe, Sherry Dorward, and Ian McHarg, provided the foundation for a sustainability assessment framework. The framework is applied to test the sustainable viability of existing resorts, as a guide for the design of resorts, and as a tool for comparative analysis between mountain resorts. The result is a conceptual master plan for Park City, Utah that employs the use of stormwater and architectural best management practices, recycled materials, mixed use design, alternative forms of energy, and an efficient public transportation system.

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The reasons to cause the variation of the Fu-Long resort area have been investigated in the study. The resort area is the spit extended from the northern coast of the Shung-si River located at the northeast part of Taiwan. Historical coastlines and the bathymetry surveyed in the last 15 years have been used to interpret the cause of the coastline variation. Numerical simulation of the wave and flow field is performed to assist the interpretation. It is found that the spit may be eroded during typhoon season by the flood from Shung-si River and recovered in the next year if the typhoon occurred in monsoon season in which the eroded sediment carried by northward monsoon waves will be merged to the coastline by the following southward northeast season waves. On the contrary, if the typhoon occurred during northeast wind season, the accompanying southward will carry the eroded sediment further south and the spit may not recover in the next year. It is further found that the source of the sediment from the river has been decreased in the last decade and the coastline retreated in responding the source decrease. Man-made fishery port close to the spit also deposited some sediment and may cause the variation of the coastline.

In the global economic development, mostly, the output values of the service industries in advanced countries have accounted for more than 60% of the GDP. In recent years, owing to the prosperous development of the service industry in Taiwan, according to the statistics of Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, in 2002, the GDP of service industry has accounted for 67.0% of that of the entire industries. This speaks for the importance of service industry in national economic development. According to the analysis of the World Tourism Organization for 2000, ¡§tourism¡¨ has become the primary source of many countries in earning foreign exchange. In terms of the foreign exchange earnings of the countries over the world, tourism income has accounted for 8% of the said earnings. This indicates that the tourist hotels industry which provides the functions such as accommodation, food & beverage, recreation, and entertainment could be considered the service industry with great developmental potentiality. The guests of Guan-zi-ling Toong Mao Spa Resort were invited to participate in this research survey for investigating the customer satisfaction towards the room service quality of resort hotels. Totalizing 440 questionnaires were sent out, and 233 returned (a response rate of 52.96%), from which 222 were valid (a valid response rate of 50.46%). After analyzing the data with reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, difference analysis, and correlation analysis, the following findings were concluded: (1)Room service is taken by the guests as the major factor in choosing resort hotels, among which the cleanness of bed sheet, blanket, and pillow; the cleanness of guestrooms environment and facilities; the facilities functions of guestrooms and baths; the cleanness of bath environment and facilities; and the neatness and sufficiency of guestrooms and baths facilities are especially valued. (2)There are significant differences in the expected service valued by various guests towards different dimensions: the guests of various education levels, occupations, and family incomes towards the operator; the guests of various ages, family incomes, and places of dwelling towards room reservations; the guests of various ages, occupations, and places of dwelling towards front desk service; the guests from various places of dwelling towards service center; and the guests of various occupations, family incomes, and places of dwelling towards room service. (3)There are significant differences in the perceived satisfaction of various guests towards different service dimensions: the guests of various ages and places of dwelling towards the operator; the guests of various education levels and family incomes towards room reservations; the guests of various occupations towards front desk service; the guests of various occupations, family incomes, places of dwelling towards service center; and the guests of various ages and places of dwelling towards room service. (4) There are significant differences in the guests of various ages, occupations, and places of dwelling towards the entire satisfaction of service quality; and in the entire customer loyalty of the guests of various ages, education levels, occupations, and family incomes. (5) There are significant relations between the customer satisfaction and customer loyalty of Guan-zi-ling Toong Mao Spa Resort. Finally, concrete suggestions were proposed as the references for the business, administrative organizations of tourism, and follow-up researches.

ABSTRACT As the life expectancy in Taiwan has gradually increased, and more and more people retire at a young age, even below 50, the duration of retired life for Taiwanese may be prolonged to nearly 30 years. Most of the retirees are in very good health conditions and full of energy during the first 25 years or even longer. Hence, an early plan for arrangements for the 25-year retired life is indeed essential to creating a cozy, healthy living environment, allowing one to live happily after retirement while having a place for leisure activities. Finding an excellent environment for a resort for leisure and health purposes for retirees is thus an important tip. In recent years, the area of fallow and abandoned farms has rapidly increased, as a result of cheap produce since Taiwan joined WTO. The government has thus encouraged the use of idle farms in the leisure industry, as it may not only stimulate development of rural villages, but also facilitate the emergence of resorts for leisure and health purposes due to the excellent environment in rural villages. Consequently, many farm resorts for leisure and health purposes run by retirees sprouted. The purpose of this study is to figure out the development trend of farm resorts for leisure and health purposes, and to gain a further understanding of the key decision factors for retirees in selecting a farm resort for leisure and health purposes. ¡@¡@In this study, three individual health and culture villages established by Best Future, Gobo Service, and Formosa Plastics Group, are selected to perform an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis of five possible key decision factors in selecting farm resorts for leisure and health purposes, such as prices, health care, geographic environment, hardware facilities, and leisure activities, in order to understand the factors that retirees have taken into consideration when choosing a favorable farm resort for leisure and health purposes. Interviewees comprise the following: 3 personnel from the industry, including Mr. Bai, Yao-Ren, President of Baofa Retirement Village, Mr. Chu, Tai-An, Director of Gobo Sheng-en Leisure and Health Club House, and Mr. Song, Ru-Kuei, responsible person of He-nong Health & Life Accommodation; 3 personnel from government agencies, including Mr. Su, Jhong-Yuan, Deputy Director-general of the Tourism and Traffic Bureau of Kaohsiung County Government, Mr. Yang, Siao-Jhih, Chief of the Agriculture Section of Meinong Township Office, and Ms. Jhang, Ting-Siou from the Social Affairs Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government; 3 scholars from the academia, including Dr. Chen, Wei-Ren, Chairman of the Department of Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Management of Shu-Te University, Dr. Hsieh, Ching-Hsiang, Ex-Chairman of the Department of Plant Industry of National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, and Dr. Luo, Rong-Heng, Chairman of the Department of Finance of Nan Kai University of Technology; and 3 customers living in each of the three health and culture villages established by Best Future, Gobo Service, and Formosa Plastics Group, a total of 18 participants from 4 different categories. In-depth interviews are then conducted with all of the interviewees to collect qualified and quantified data from AHP questionnaires for further analysis, in order to better understand the key decision factors in selecting farm resorts for leisure and health purposes. Through simultaneous collection and analysis of qualified and quantified data from AHP questionnaires, five key decision factors highly regarded by the government agencies, scholars, business owners, and customers in terms of health and culture villages are gained. The hierarchy of these five key decision factors, such as prices, health care, geographic environment, hardware facilities, and leisure activities, determined by their respective relative weights, is as follows: geographic environment (0.287) > hardware facilities (0.286) > prices (0.218) > health care (0.186) > leisure activities (0.176). The key decision factors in these three health and culture villages established by Best Future, Gobo Service, and Formosa Plastics Group with top five average weights are: 1. hardware facilities in Chang Gung Health and Culture Village (0.105); 2. geographic environment in Gobo Sheng-en Leisure and Health Club House (0.095); 3. geographic environment in Chang Gung Health and Culture Village (0.092); 4. hardware facilities in Gobo Sheng-en Leisure and Health Club House (0.090); and 5. geographic environment in Baofa Retirement Village (0.087). The above results roughly correspond to the results obtained through AHP analysis of qualified and quantified data. Key words: Leisure industry, Retiree, Farm resort, Analytic Hierarchy Process

Timeshare ownership is a continually increasing market within the real-estate development industry. Marketed both as deeded property ownership and personal investments in heightened vacation experiences, timeshares have been developed, branded and sold in high vacation destinations around the world. From its precarious beginnings to its currently expanding popularity, timeshares have become a profitable and dynamic branch in real-estate development. Today, several international realestate corporations have branded and cornered the timeshare industry with everexpanding development scope and long-term business planning. This professional report will encompass the following five main categories: 1. An introduction to the timeshares and its development history; 2. Defining the timeshare product, market and clientele; 3. Analysis of timeshare feasibility planning and business dynamics; 4. Analysis of timeshare design and development concepts; 5. Summary and a look to the future of resort development; This professional report will attempt to conceptualize the timeshare development process both through analysis of development concepts and methodologies as well as applying such elements into hypothetical examples. Through the examination of initial project planning, feasibility and cash flow pro forma, and various other programming and design elements, this report will try to present an understanding of the timeshare development process and create a guide for development that can be applicable for real-world use. / text

Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights))--Mahidol University, 2004.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 277-300)

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-122). Also available on the World Wide Web.

My thesis is focused on the marketing evaluation of the visitors of Dolni Morava Relax & Sport Resort during the winter season. The main content of the thesis is the description of the current state and consequent evaluation of satisfaction with offered service. Identification of the client is also important. The thesis includes theoretical part which defines basic terms related to marketing, services and tourism and of practical part which consists of the characteristics of the resort, description of the service and results of a survey. The conclusion is dedicated to suggestions and recommendations.