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Many studies on destination competitiveness indicate that natural resources, human resources, infrastructure, policies, and services in a certain destination could mainly attract tourists and help tourists determine their preferred destinations compared to other competitive destinations. In this study, the authors collect information on, analyze, and evaluate visitor-related factors determining the competitiveness of tourism destinations in Can Tho City based on three factors: infrastructure for tourism or facilities for tourism, tourism resources, and tourism human resources. The study also proposes some research orientations to examine the destination competitiveness assessment model in Can Tho.

“Place” is a key concept in humanistic geography and researchers have applied it to the field of tourism. Geographers like Edward Relph added humanistic perspective to the notion of place, and his work did not contribute only to the maintenance and restoration of existing places but also the creation of new places. Big cities with abundant historical resources and notable characteristics are relatively easy to develop tourism, while small cities which have poor economy and few historical and cultural resources have to exert even more efforts to enlarge the tourist industry.

Performing art festivals can play an important role in the creation of new places. Because they can be newly made through performances and related programs, even if local historical resources are poor. Some small cities in Korea and China are actively exploring how to change themselves into new places by means of such festivals.

County of Zhangbei, for example, is situated close to Inner Mongolia region in China and owns vast grasslands. Lack of historical and cultural resources, it didn’t have many option but to rely on agriculture and the result was a poor economy. In 2009, the first Zhangbei Grassland Music Festival was successfully held and attracted more than 100,000 visitors to this small town in only three days. After ten years, Zhangbei Festival has become a popular destination for music lovers and travelers in China, and the county was transformed into a town of rock music from an unknown village.

This paper is a case study on Zhangbei Grassland Music Festival which focuses on the progress of creating a new place through performing art festivals, and divided into five parts: First, it introduces background and the objectives of the research. Secondly, it focuses on the theoretical base of place and placeness. Thirdly, it provides the information on Zhangbei county and Zhangbei Festival. Fourthly, it analyze the process of making a new place through the festival. Finally, it comes to a conclusion that a new place can be created by the art festival, and tells what Zhangbei County need to do for the improvement of this upturn.

Cruise tourism is strongly growing and destinations have had a fivefold increase in tourists that go ashore. Investments in development of quays are done in several ports of call. The Brundtland Commission, 1987 meant that sustainable development includes economic growth but with protection of the environment’s quality. This paper was written within a larger interdisciplinary research programme, about how to create conditions for economic growth but with protection of the quality of the delicate environment in order to balance different spheres of interest.

This paper aims to study perceptions of local residents about the development of a new quay for cruising ships. The residents are stakeholders, which is an important concept in quality-driven sustainability. What does a new quay for cruising ships mean to the residents? What consequences can be identified? Does the cruising season affect the residents’ quality of life?

Within a qualitative research approach a survey based on a questionnaire was done. One delimitations in the data collection was made, i.e., residents in Visby, Gotland were asked to participate.

The main results indicate that the respondents have several opinions about tourists in general but don’t see difference between e.g. tourists and cruising visitors. There were both positive and negative consequences emphasized by the respondents. One particular opinion mentioned by a majority of the respondents was that they think the new quay will bring income to Visby and Gotland.

The major implication of the study is to show that visits at destinations also include the residents as stakeholders.

TargetTourism can drive the development of a region, and it also plays a significant role in promoting regional economic development. For the integrated development of the financial industry and the tourism industry, there are obvious data to prove that the technologies, applications, and markets based on the coupling coordination degree and gray correlation degree models are different, but the attributes of the two have common attributes and Features. From the point of view of common attributes, tourism and finance have both cultural and economic attributes, which is a comprehensive industrial technology. From the point of view of common characteristics, tourism and financial industries have regional, economic and creative characteristics. Specifically, it is necessary to carry out research from the perspective of engineering. From the perspective of a digital economy model, this paper conducts an empirical study on the relationship between financial development and regional tourism development. From the findings of this study, it can be seen that the development of regional tourism is closely related to the development of the financial industry.

The paper’s goals are to comprehend strategies for tourism destinations after the coronavirus. The research question (RQ) is if the digital platform experience of a leading country in wine tourism can help to overcome COVID-19 and to turn the sector. The general topics related to destinations, specifically Italian wine tourism destinations, have been elaborated on in the introduction. Starting with a literature review relating to the destination tourism crisis in the tourism sector, the paper highlights the potential and basic lessons for coping with the current crisis. The method, which is connected to a wine tourism destination in Italy, emphasizes both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The results demonstrate the best practices as well as the bottlenecks. The discussions would result in the creation of strategic alternatives specific to the sector and its destinations. The study limits, considering bottlenecks that might arise in the future. The findings emphasize that the sector requires substantial funding from information and communication technology (ICT) to build smart destinations.

The interest in the use of the ChatGpt tool by professionals in the tourism sector is increasing, but the acceptance of this tool by these professionals is not the same for all, there being different factors that affect its acceptance. In this chapter, first, the interest in this topic is demonstrated by means of a bibliometric study formed by related scientific publications, second, a co-occurrence study is carried out on the publications found to determine the most significant variables, and, from them, lastly, to obtain the factors mentioned at the beginning, thus creating a theoretical adaptation of the technological adaptation model, that model how the tourism sector comes to accept and use ChatGpt. With this information, a company in the tourism sector has a theoretical evaluation model to measure the degree of acceptance of its workers toward ChatGpt tools, being able to distinguish the strongest points and having the opportunity to establish an adaptation strategy according to the weakest points.

This paper describes the building of a tourism-related parallel corpus in English-Cebuano language pair. The source for building the corpus is the web because it is rich with probable translation pairs, specifically in bilingual websites. The resulting tourism corpus will be used as a training data for a statistical machine translation system. The corpus contained information on the Philippines in the context of destinations, food, festivals, and other related concepts. From the parallel corpus, a separate named entity list on these contexts is generated. The results show that the procedures used were able to build a tourism-related parallel English-Cebuano corpus from the web and the named entities were correctly identified.

The development of international activities in the 1970s and 1980s stimulated considerable academic interest and analysis. However, few studies have focused on the internationalisation of the tourism sector. Only recently has tourism started to receive more attention from international business scholars, especially its hotel sector. Although classified as part of the service sector, the hotel sector has distinctive characteristics that differentiate it from other service industries, thereby presenting a challenge and calling for a separate research regarding decisions about the mode of corporate development. This chapter provides theoretical background on the internationalisation of the firm, and reviews the most influential theories, models and paradigms used to analyse the internationalisation of the hotel sector.

Drawing on expenditure and survey data from the Gold and Sunshine Coasts in Queensland, Australia, this chapter compares expenditures on beaches relative to their recreational benefits. Beaches are found to be exceptional investments. The comparison of the two councils also provides insights into their relative capacity to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. The Gold Coast can rely to some extent on historical large investments in infrastructure to defend itself against change. In contrast, the Sunshine Coast has more options which may lower the cost of adaptation e.g., it can rely more heavily on retreating from change in certain locations because of historical investment in dunal buffer zones. However, historical investment patterns impact in different ways on the environmental quality of beaches and the benefits provided to users and non-users. Limitations and areas of future research are also outlined.

This chapter examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export sectors and economic growth, it then delves into the theoretical basis for an inbound tourism-led growth relationship. Following this, the relatively new empirical literature on the causal relationship between tourism and growth is examined in detail. Both theoretical and empirical evidence to date suggest that there is good reason to believe that inbound tourism promotion can lead to increased economic growth, but the literature is still relatively narrow. Deeper research into the specific mechanisms behind this relationship is needed to inform our understanding of the true growth impacts of export tourism expansion.

Tourism as an economic activity in Goa hardly existed before the 1960s. There were limited tourist facilities, either in the form of accommodation or other amenities. After its independence, the government initiated a programme for rapid expansion of accommodation facilities and related tourist services, and beach tourism was adopted as a key sector for Goa's development. As a result, Goa became a major international tourist destination. The tourism industry has contributed significantly to the economic development of the territory, but also to the transformation of Goa's coastal areas. This chapter discusses the development of Goa as a tourist destination, examining the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts of such tourism development.

Arunachal Pradesh, the eastern most state of India, is one of the ‘hotspots’ of global biodiversity. This state is a micro-hotspot within the larger Eastern Himalayas hotspot. Based on satellite imagery, the forest area in this state constitutes around 81.91% of its total area, which is one of the highest of any state in India. The conflict between development process and protecting the rich biodiversity of Arunachal Pradesh is becoming increasingly apparent. Arunachal Pradesh has a unique opportunity to map out a development path that is sustainable and ecologically sound. Despite being rich in its natural resource endowment, the state is one of the most backward states of India. In these circumstances, the promotion of tourism appears to be one of the best ways of generating internal revenue, employment, income and accelerating the pace of development in this state. In addition, the promotion of nature-based and ecotourism can play an important role in the State's strategy for conserving its rich forest resources as well as its cultural heritage. Hence, the present chapter deals with the opportunities and challenges of developing tourism in this remote state of India.