The Indian Government, has been initiating to identifying, diversifying, developing and promoting the 'Niche tourism products', namely Cruise, Adventure, Medical, Wellness, Golf, Polo, Meetings Incentives Conferences & Exhibitions (MICE), Eco-tourism, Film Tourism, etc. (Annual Report-2018 p. 9) to ...

Isolation problems, due to the pandemic, have managed to rehabilitate the virtual domain, after in the literature from various fields, the virtual was accused of all bad things, lack of direct contact in virtual academic communication, difficulty communicating in virtual teams, addiction of youth...

An online survey was conducted to examine how nostalgias associated with Hayao Miyazaki's animations motivate tourists to visit a theme park inspired by the director's works. A structural equation modeling of the collected data revealed that the survey respondents who felt nostalgic about the...

Tourism acts as a catalyst for positive changes in the elderly lives by providing possibilities for socialization, escape from routine, knowledge of new realities and cultures. This paper investigates aging representations and narratives of transformation processes in cinema screenplays focused on...

A representation is the constitution of the expression between the subject and his conceptions of the world, in constant interaction with the sociocultural space, an object explored by the arts, and the activity of tourism. Cinema composes the integration between the real and the imaginary,...

Marine ecosystem pollution with microplastics (MPs) is a global problem. The current study aimed to assess the occurrence of MPs in the sediments of the Caspian Sea southern coasts. For sampling, two distinct areas were selected including recreational-tourism areas (No=24), and non-tourist areas...

Microplastics are one of the most valuable indicators reflecting the effects of human activities on natural environment. This study was conducted in a representative remote region of Tibetan Plateau in China, simultaneously analyzing the abundance, compositions and fate of MPs both in water and...

Purpose: This paper aims to anticipate the influence of new cinematographic and television operators on the attractiveness of tourist destinations. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology developed is two-fold: first, long-haul observation of the sector, and second, a state of the literature...