Food as well as other factors, such as accommodation, attractions, recreational activities and transport are key parts of the tourism product of host destinations. It has been found that in recent years, tourism choices are not determined only by the simple biological need to eat, but also by the...

Italia is a pioneer as for the promotion of Sports Law and Tourism Law. Up to 2001, there was an explicit guarantee of tourism and hotel industry in the Italian Constitutional, which was put into force in 1948. So, the constitutional rights to tourism and hospitality may be regarded as...

Tourism is a socioeconomic phenomenon with important effects on human life and on national economies. The journey, i.e. the movement of people from their permanent residence in another place, is the key element of tourism. The basic component of tourism is leisure and relaxation, which are...

In the following article a comparison is set out, between the concept of tourism and sport tourism, recreation and sport animation, as they appear in Greece. Their correlation indicates that the common element in these phenomena is the presence of spare time and the quest for remarkable experience. ...

Swimming pools are known to be a source of infection in swimmers. In this paper the results of a twelve-year sanitary survey are presented. The survey presented here focuses on swimming pools in the region of Attica, Greece. The inspected swimming pools belonged to sports clubs, municipalities,...

Explains the principles introduced by Hotelling for assigning an economic value to the indirect benefits of forests and national parks used for recreation, and describes two methods of evaluation developed on this basis by Clawson and by Pearse, giving examples of their application in the USA.