Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2011. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-95). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Ο τουρισμός µε την σηµερινή του έκταση αποτελεί πια φαινόµενο. Ο σύγχρονος άνθρωπος έκανε πια ανάγκη του, την πρόσκαιρη µετακίνηση του από την µόνιµη κατοικία σε άλλους τόπους της χώρας του ή άλλης χώρας. Η σηµερινή σύγχρονη µηχανοποιηµένη ζωή των πόλεων κουράζει τον άνθρωπο, και αυτός µε την αλλαγή επιδιώκει την ανακούφιση και τη χαλάρωση. Η άφθονη πια παροχή συγχρόνων απολαύσεων οδηγεί τον πολιτισµένο άνθρωπο σε µια φυγή, η οποία ικανοποιείται µε το τουριστικό ταξίδι. Παράλληλα ο άνθρωπος της υπαίθρου µαγνητίζεται από την µεγάλη ζωή των µεγαλουπόλεων και µε την µετακίνηση του σε αυτές ζητά να απόλαυσει και αυτός, ότι και οι άλλοι άνθρωποι των πόλεων προσπαθούν να αποφύγουν στις διακοπές τους. / Nowadays, alternative tourism has been successfully improved. Here we are going to analyze some types of alternative tourism such as agro tourism and many others.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MabelSABG.pdf: 948090 bytes, checksum: 1725ff2ca12b71cf4097a0834b1b55c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / In today s global society, companies have become even more competitive with the abundance of information that prospective clients have available to them. This way the tourist services has appropriate the distribution using electronics ways as information for doing acquirement services. This work, shows the adopted provision of on-line tourist services does have suited apportionment for factors and buy decisions. The method used is a survey applied to the tourists, at international airport Augusto Severo, no matter why the visit reason to Natal city, at all, they were 210 people, being the chief variables evaluated the tourist perception of facility, utility, benefits, amenity and pleasure from the Internet s use, under the terms at the tourists experiences from the WEB about to acquisitions and researches. The results acquaint that the younger tourists or less experts tourists, in visit to Natal, demonstrated greater bias to the Internet s use than the other people. By the way women have a larger representation as a consumer from the WEB and finally, people along greater study tends to adopt. The work s contribution provides greater knowledge for the tourism executives about how might use the Internet, as well as bring forward a scene propitious for the on-line diffuseness service / A sociedade vive atualmente uma competitividade constante entre as empresas, uma vez que os clientes disp?em cada vez mais de informa??es para fazer aquisi??o de servi?os. Desta forma a presta??o de servi?os tur?sticos tem adequado sua distribui??o por meio eletr?nico. Este estudo descreve o perfil de ado??o da Internet, assim como fatores que afetam a decis?o de compra de servi?os tur?sticos on line. A metodologia utilizada foi um survey aplicado junto aos turistas, no aeroporto Augusto Severo, independente do motivo da visita ? cidade do Natal-RN, totalizando 210 entrevistados, sendo as principais vari?veis analisadas a percep??o do turista quanto a facilidade, utilidade, divers?o e benef?cios do uso da Internet, com base nas experi?ncias dos turistas e ado??o da rede para compras e pesquisas. Os resultados revelaram que os turistas, que visitam Natal, mais jovens com menos experi?ncia, demonstraram maior propens?o quanto ao uso da Internet do que o restante, a mulher por sua vez tem uma maior representa??o como consumidora da rede e as pessoas com maior grau de instru??o t?m maior tend?ncia a adotar. A contribui??o desse estudo ? a de propiciar um maior conhecimento para os executivos de turismo sobre como podem utilizar a Internet, bem como apresentar um cen?rio prop?cio para a difus?o de servi?os on line

Tábor region and the town Tábor offer many attractions, spanning cultural, social, sport and natural beauty. Area investigation using program ArcGIS, questionnaire research and analysis of tourism products showed that the region is of great interest to visitors and tourists mainly for his rich history and heritage, culture, scenic attractions and many sporting events. Analysis of maps created in program ArcGIS found tourism potential not only in the town Tábor, but in other towns and areas across the Tábor region. This analysis, supported by the results of the questionnaire research, recommend ways of improving tourism products, for example compiling a complete package of tourism products into a catalogue or into product packets.

In this thesis, authors’ main goal is to test two hypotheses to compare if the tourists are more likely to make their destination choice based on user generated photographs on social media, as well as, tourists’ sustainable destination choice based on photographs with sustainable green content. The quantitative research method was used to conduct the survey with experimental design. It was aimed to compare the tourist’ trust in different photo types, the consumers’ trust was expected to be measured by three dimensions: first impression, intention, and persuasiveness, recommended by previous studies. However, the findings revealed that the tourists are not more likely to trust user generated content on social media to make their destination choice.

The city of Pilsen offers high tourism potential, which has not been exploited fully. The municipality of the city is aware of the situation and would like to improve it in the future. Apart from other steps that should be done at tourism field, is essential to create competitive tourism product that would appeal to specific target groups and improve incoming traffic to the city. Tourist product proposal is the main topic of this thesis. Several tourism products are presented and those should aim at senior citizens tourism and cultural tourists. Also, specifications and needs of those particular groups are mentioned.

Tourism industry plays an important role in developing countries like Thailand. An acccommodation is a key expense of almost every trip, therefore accommodation development need to be taken into account in order to attract target tourists from other countries. The long-stay tourism is important since the longer the tourists’ stay means the more receipts spent. Subsequently, many studies have been focused both on the tourism and real estate sides about long-stay accommodation in various types. Long-stay tourism in Thailand is an outstanding tourism alternative. Tourists from high cost of living, cold countries and aging population are the target market as we can see from the Americans, Europeans and Japanese tourists. Accordingly, future demographic structure is expected to increase so that cause emerging niche market called retirement home as a sub-set of the long-stay tourism. This thesis analyzes the attributes of the long-stay tourism in Thailand. The Scandinavian tourists are selected case studies according to their qualification and potential to be prospective customers. The opinions from the demand side, Scandinavian tourist-investors, were collected. Currently many projects of the Scandinavian are in the markets and will continue more as a consequence of predictions following tourism trend. In contrast, the study shows that there are some obstacles, which decelerate the growth of this market. Government policy is key to drive tourism and real estate sector to get along together. Until now, there is no exact solution but some alternatives from relevant market in sample countries were exemplified in order to develop tourism accommodation with the long-stay tourism in Thailand later on.

Nature-based tourism is one of the most preferred types of tourism by tourists in recent years. This type of tourism also has a special effect on people's decisions. This paper analyzes the role of nature-based tourism in people's decisions and tourist preferences, as well as how companies meet these requirements. Taking into account the growing tourism potential in the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan has been selected as the main study area. In this paper, the qualitative method was applied as the main research design, and the data collection was obtained based on interviews. This study reveals the expectations of tourists from companies and the factors that influence their decisions. It also analyzes how companies meet the needs of tourists and the relationship between them.

Masters in Public Administration - MPA / The topic of this mini-thesis evolved out of the author's internship at the Centre for Tourism Research in Africa and his own background in Kampala/Uganda. Both the Western Cape and the Kampala regions ~d as significant tourism regions, with most of the attention falling on formal sector facilities for middle to higher income visitors.

A thesis submitted in fulfillment for the requirements of the degree of Doctor of phisophy in the Faculty of Arts, in the Department of IsiZulu naMagugu at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2005. / This study will be focusing on visual and performance artists. It is the plight of artists that they work hard in their artistic disciplines, but do not benefit to the equivalence of their efforts. There are many reasons for this. Crafters are dependent on a sound tourists industry. The study will be looking at some of the reasons and concems then try to provide what could be some answers and solutions. Art is generally thought of as the development of performance skills and or craft manufacturing within a small minority of youth or community performers, usually selected on the basis of talent and motivation. The research leading to this study has been to a large extent, motivated by the need for a more comprehensive and holistic concept This will lend itselfto a fuller exploitation and will have potential for assisting larger numbers of artists to achieve a wide range of educational outcomes in art administration, instrument manufacturing, actual artistic performance and craft production. A large number of arts practitioners internationally feel that understanding a country occurs through its arts and culture. The arts of any country is actually the mirror of the country. This study will look at the arts of South Africa and the impact it has on the proudly SouthAfricans and the tourism industry at large.This study will have two primary purposes: a. to make justification for artists (visual and performance) and, b: to suggest ways in which artists can more prominently and profitably feature in the tourism industry and their sustainability as artists and proud members of South African communities. It is important to note that South African artists exist in highly diverse communities which are influenced by many factors such as: • heritage • cultural fabric • ethnic identity • experiences • different beliefs and convictions