What is the essence of tourism? There are many ways to study its essence, and different ways of thinking lead to different essences. Tourism is a meaningful human activity; thus, examining the essence of tourism leads to the meaning of human existence and existence itself. To examine tourism and...

Tourism impacts the quality of life of host community residents in myriad ways. Most research seeking to understand those impacts has either focused on tourism in general or a single specific type of tourism. Little is understood about how residents attribute perceived impacts to different forms of ...

Perceived as an alternative to mass tourism, alternative tourism is characterized through: the emphasis on travel as an experience of host cultures and the maintenance of traditional values and societies, individual, independent or small group activity, slow, controlled and regulated development...

Together with the mass and daily development of tourism, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many tourism products to meet the escalating aesthetic needs of tourists; the phenomenon of aesthetic fatigue in tourism is becoming progressively apparent. From the tourists' perspective, as the...

The administrative governance of tourism safety is an important part of the national safety governance system. It is the concrete embodiment of the government's will in safety management and its mode of management under the premise of highlighting the characteristics and particularities of the ...

At present, China has become a big country in both tourism and tourism research. However, its tourism research is relatively backward in terms of ideological and theoretical innovation, mostly because the researchers do not put much emphasis on tourism philosophy or tourism research methodology....

As an important way to promote human health, sports tourism has a wide range of participation and strong interaction. The development of the integration of sports and tourism is facing the superposition of opportunities from three aspects: policy, supply and demand. The demand shift and...

The purpose of this study is to research the relationship between tourism development in the province of Burdur, satisfaction, support to tourism development and tourism entrepreneurship. The research model developed was based upon the theory of social change and was tested by using PLS-SEM. The...

Sustainable tourism development in historic towns has received widespread attention, but the distribution pattern and layout rules of the tourism businesses in it are not clear. Taking the ancient city of Pingyao in China as an example, this study explores the distribution pattern and verifies...

Community-oriented rural tourism and scenic-oriented rural tourism are two important models for residents involved in the development of rural tourism in practice. They are the result of comprehensive thinking about the local natural, economic, and social environment. To explore their theoretical...