Cultural value perception in the memorable tourism experience

Tourism management curriculum, if its ultimate objective is to give an introduction to the modern trends in tourism management and marketing and to prepare future destination managers, must inevitably incorporate – together with all their theoretical and practical implications - the phenomena of experiential consumption and value co-creation

INTEGRATED TOURISM MANAGEMENT

Because the changes in technology, especially in the Internet area are more and more striking, it is necessary for us to keep up with this changes. That is why many of us are now aware of the importance of the Internet and are using it almost everyday. In tourism the changes are perceived especially in the modifications observed in traveller’s behavior. Today’s travellers are more fastidious in choosing their destinations. This is why they are testing the market much more than they used to do before and are looking for precise information about the prices,the offers and the events in a specific area. The online market provides this information, but it is not enough to have the information, also is ought to have the power to sell it. This site aims first to serve and than to delight the actual and potential tourists who are willing to travel and visit Romania,using a website which respects the best programming methods for this type of commercial activityes.tourism

"Ecologically Sustainable Tourism Management"

One of the primary challenges facing ecotourism management is to establish a profitable and ecologically sustainable industry, while simultaneously achieving a satisfying experience for visitors and raising standards of living in the host community. This paper analyses the management practices and challenges faced by two ecotourism attractions on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, namely Couran Cove Island Resort and Boondall Wetlands Reserve. As an ecotourism-based resort on one of the world's few naturally-occurring sand islands, Couran Cove is active in implementing a range of initiatives for sustainable environmental management. This is particularly important as Couran Cove is home to a wide variety of plant communities and one of the largest remnants of the rare Livistona rainforest on the Gold Coast. The Boondall Wetlands Reserve is internationally recognized as an important feeding and resting habitat for migratory wading birds from Alaska, China, Japan, Mongolia and Siberia. Through the activities of the Visitor Centre, the Boondall Wetlands Reserve aims to: (i) promote environmental awareness within the local and regional communities; (ii) provide community education and information about wetlands systems within the local, regional and global context; (iii) offer nature-based recreation and tourism services; and (iv) demonstrate how wetlands can diversify the tourism and ecotourism industries.

Examining the Personal and Institutional Determinants of Research Productivity in Hospitality and Tourism Management

The transition toward a post-capitalist knowledge-oriented economy has resulted in an increasingly competitive academic environment, where the success of faculty is dependent on their research productivity. This study examines the personal and institutional determinants of the quantity and quality of the research productivity of hospitality and tourism management faculty in US institutions. A survey of 98 faculty found that a different set of determinants impact the quantity and quality aspects of research productivity. Also, institutional determinants were found to play a larger role, indicating the need for administrators to strive for a culture that is supportive of and an infrastructure that is conducive to their faculty’s research success. The authors use the field of hospitality and tourism management as a case study to develop a holistic and cohesive framework for knowledge worker productivity that can guide the evaluation, hiring, and development of researchers

Benchmarking in Tourism Destination, Keeping in Mind the Sustainable Paradigm

Tourism destination benchmarking and the assessment of tourism management performances are a crucial and challenging task in the direction of evaluating tourism sustainability and reshaping tourism activities. However, assessing tourism management efficiency per se may not provide enough information concerning long-term performances, which is what sustainability is about. Natural resources management should therefore be included in the analysis to provide a more exhaustive picture of long-run sustainable efficiency and tourism performances. Indeed, while the environmental endowment of a site is a key feature in tourism destination comparison, what really matters is its effective management. Therefore, in this paper we assess and compare tourism destinations, not only in terms of tourism services supply, but also in terms of the performance of environmental management. The proposed efficiency assessment procedure is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency when facing multiple input and output. Although the methodology is extremely versatile, for the sake of exemplification, in this paper it is applied to the valuation of sustainable tourism management of the twenty Italian regions.Data envelopment analysis, Sustainable tourism indicators

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN HERITAGE SITE: A CASE OF ANGKOR, SIEM REAP PROVINCE, CAMBODIA

This research investigated the community participation for sustainable tourism pf local residents who live within 4 communes around Angkor heritage site. The research aimed to examine the existing circumstance of community participation in sustainable tourism at Angkor, investigate the government measures for sustainable tourism development, the influence of stakeholders that promotes the community participation for sustainable tourism development at Angkor and propose guidelines for community participation in tourism management for sustainable tourism development at Angkor, Cambodia. The results showed that the existing community participation in tourism management for sustainable tourism development at Angkor, the government should encourage community participation in all kinds of tourism activities, more especially local people should be given opportunity to get job and directly income generating businesses. The Government and private sector also give attention to support the development in terms of physical construction area, improve the dimension of management by increasing other tourist facilities, and establish a participatory and environmental friendly plan and policy for sustainable development of tourism

Students’ expectations from graduate studies in heritage (tourism) management

This article provides certain key aspects that might help to further develop academic heritage education. These have been discussed within brainstorming and round-table sessions carried out by World Heritage students at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Important aspects regarding expectations, current issues and prospective career opportunities were selected after these sessions. With the idea of our International Master Programme in mind, the results of this work have been summarized to identify what makes a good focus to Heritage Studies and further strategies to improve this discipline. It was concluded that international and interdisciplinary approaches should serve as the basis to facilitate personal research interests, critical thinking, a sense of student community and how all these can be applied to a future professional career. External students, faculty members and heritage professionals are invited to join this debate

Leisure studies education: Historical trends and pedagogical futures in the United Kingdom and beyond

This paper is an attempt to stimulate debate about the decline of leisure studies and the rise of courses and subject fields defined by sport, events, tourism management. It is argued that although this decline has happened, there are two possible futures for a re-purposed leisure studies that would ensure its survival

Centrality of hospitality and tourism education : the case of Strathclyde business school

Hospitality and tourism management education thrives at the University of Strathclyde. As Susan Hart, Kevin O’Gorman and Matthew Alexander explain, following the recent reorganisation, integrating the degree into the Strathclyde Business School has strengthened the university’s presentation of the subject’s distinctiveness. This is how future leaders of the industry will be developed