The contributions by China-based authors to the burgeoning Chinese language tourism literature have been accompanied by the growing and well documented appearance in English-language journals by Chinese authors from both within and outside the country. However, there has been adequate...

This study analyzes the stakeholder networks that have developed in the medical tourism industry centered around South Korea. The network that 14 leading Korean medical tourism stakeholders have with China and the United States are investigated considering General Agreement on Trade in Services...

Based on user-generated content from a social media website, this study investigated the impact of a popular film in China-Lost in Thailand-on tourist behavior at the destination. The authors analyzed tourist volumes and conducted social network analysis and content analysis to explore the...

To explore popularly visited tourist locations, travel movement patterns, and movement points, this study collected samples of 321 Chinese tourists and 337 Japanese tourists who were visiting major tourist destinations in Seoul and its vicinity in South Korea. Results of analyzing movement patterns ...

Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been introduced into tourism and hospitality research. However, little research has specifically addressed the structural pattern of tourist flow network. Chinese travelers to Japan keep increasing and become the largest market for Japan's inbound tourism. In order ...

This paper adopts accessibility index and the social network analysis to conduct a quantitative research on the traffic accessibility of Xi'an scenic spots. The main results are as follows: (1) Compared with the normal traffic tourism traffic has its own specificity, which can not be simply...

Currently, independent travelling has become one of the global main ways to travel. By using the social network analysis and method of cartographic representation, this study was designed to identify the geographical distribution and network structure characteristics of inbound independent foreign...