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Travel has always been one of the major contributors to health and
wellbeing although this influence has often been considered indirect or
passive (relaxation). Many tourists are choosing to go on trips which have
the direct aim of improving their health as much as their sense of wellness.
The effects can even be long-lasting for tourists (and dest...
Thailand has been at the core of the Asian Values debate since the 1992 World Conference on Human Rights. Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) is a concept developed by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej to consolidate his approach to governance and development. Integrating values borrowed from Theravada Buddhism such as benevolence, emphasis on the...
The present paper explores the different methods, models, and challenges of teaching negotiation in the business sector. Particular attention is paid to the challenges brought about by borrowing methods and techniques borrowed from the fields of law and conflict analysis and resolution. A problem-based approach is favored as a way to make negotiati...
The present paper explores the different methods, models, and challenges of teaching negotiation in the business sector. Particular attention is paid to the challenges brought about by borrowing methods and techniques borrowed from the fields of law and conflict analysis and resolution. A problem-based approach is favored as a way to make negotiati...
The present paper explores the role of the "Bad Students" Movement in Thailand's pro-democracy protests. Local issues such as the social studies curriculum, school uniforms, and disciplinary measures in the public school system, are presented by the "Bad Students" Movement as a human rights issue. The discourse used by the Group is deconstructed so...
Korean protected areas (PAs) are reserved public lands which restrict most forms of development in the interests of conservation. As of 2020, there are 22 National Parks (NPs) covering nearly 7% of the country (17 Mountainous, 4 Marine and Coastal, and 1 Historical NP) and approximately 1,470 other PAs. All these parks are controlled by the Korean...
El presente artículo explora el papel del movimiento de los "malos estudiantes" en las protestas a favor de la democracia en Tailandia. Los problemas locales, como el plan de estudios de estudios sociales, los uniformes escolares y las medidas disciplinarias en el sistema de escuelas públicas, son presentados por el Movimiento de “Malos Estudiantes...
Abstract: In our work and everyday life there is not a day that passes where we do not
hear about someone being confused about something, but they carry on. This prompted
us to explore the subject and we soon realized that that the notion of confusion merited
dedicated effort towards clarification and practical usage. We have initiated several...
Edited Book - Health Tourism Global Context in Asia Pacific
The instability of liberal democracies both in Europe and in the Americans partly brought about by the COVID-19 Pandemic has shown the limits of this construct in terms of protecting the core values of liberalism itself, such as freedom of speech and the protection of private property. Riots in the United States, vandalism in several European count...
Thailand has been at the core of the Asian Values debate since the 1992 World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna. Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) is an approach developed by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej to condense and operationalize his approach to governance and development during the last two decades of his seventy year reign. In...
Publisher TBA This book will provide a comprehensive overview of the philosophical, conceptual and managerial issues surrounding the field of health tourism in the Asia Pacific Region from an internal perspective. The contributors are experts in their fields and have come together to provide a cutting edge analysis of the emergence and future of he...
Iconic Mount Fuji has symbolized the fragmented state of Japan’s ‘multi-purpose’ national park administration. Although the Ministry of Environment (MOE) is the legal administrator, the national parkland is predominantly owned by the Forestry Agency, with many services provided by local governments. This complex combination can result in stakeholde...
Akan National Park is found on the Island of Hokkaido. It was designated in 1934 as one of the second batch of properties to be declared national parks in Japan. The natural heritage of the area includes a group of volcanoes, Me-akandake, O-akandake, and Akan-Fuji, and three lakes of volcanic origin, Akan-ko, Kussharo-ko, and Mashu-ko. The geologic...
Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, has become acute during the last hundred years or s...
Mount Unzen is an active composite stratovolcano in the Southwest Japan Arc. It is made up of a cluster of overlapping volcanoes that have formed at various times over the past 6 million years on the Shimabara Peninsula of Kyushu Island. This complex is close to the major cities of Nagasaki and Kumamoto and has considerable settlement around it on...
This volume brings together the geological, geomorphological and ecological aspects of Japan’s natural heritage, arguing for dynamic conservation of such heritage and explaining their key characteristics in an accessible format for general readers. Sites from World Heritage Properties (Natural), UNESCO Global Geoparks, and National Parks of Japan r...
An essential part of the transfer of knowledge in the tourism and hospitality industry, destination image is defined as the expression of objective knowledge, imagination, and the subjective emotions of the tourist. Social media is profoundly changing the way the tourist images and interacts with the destination environment. In turn, firms in the i...
There are 4 principles that should govern the response of the healthcare system in its treatment of individual medical problems. These may be summarized as: 1. medical care should be accessible to all; 2. the principle of patient autonomy should govern decision-making; 3. medical treatment should be recognized as being part of cultural behavior; an...
Ensuring sufficient unpolluted water for urban, agricultural, and industrial use is arguably the most important issue facing the world’s communities. Countries such as Australia are currently unable to supply enough water to many areas in times of drought, and it is estimated that perhaps a billion people in the Asia-Pacific Region face the prospec...
The internationalization of higher education is not a new concept (NAFSA, 2005; Hudzik, 2011). Scholars and students have been crossing international borders for centuries and adapting to the situations they then find themselves in. However, during the past several decades the international dimensions of higher education have intensified.
ON GOING RESEARCH ABOUT THE LINK BETWEEN SOCIAL SENTIMENT OF CURRENCY VALUE AND TOURISM BEHAVIOR: A CASE OF THE RUBLE CRISIS
Advances in telecommunication technology are dramatically transforming spatial relationships in tourism, at every scale from local to global. In one such transformation, the Internet has increasingly become a popular medium for marketing the products of industries like tourism. This paper investigates the potential of virtual reality tools over the...
We investigate and describe the real-time
potential, industry potential, and brand potential of the
methodologies described (Mack et al., 2008; Claster
et al., 2010). We also examine whether the tourism
and hospitality industry can benefit from real-time
monitoring of events through following social media
and we investigate how the industry can mak...
Attracting tourists to a destination through favorable imagery is an essential part of the transfer of knowledge by marketing organizations in the tourism industry. Destination image is defined as the expression of objective knowledge, imagination and the subjective emotional thoughts of an individual or group in terms of a specific country, place...
The era of globalization allows for more connectivity between nations and cultures. This increase in international association gives citizens more availability to take advantage of opportunities in other nations, such as medical assistance and accompanying services. Current Issues and Emerging Trends in Medical Tourism focuses on the emerging pheno...
There are 4 principles that should govern the response of the healthcare system in its treatment of individual medical problems. These may be summarized as: 1. medical care should be accessible to all; 2. the principle of patient autonomy should govern Decision-Making; 3. medical treatment should be recognized as being part of cultural behavior; an...
This chapter assesses the status of medical tourism in two of the most developed countries in Asia; Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore was an early participant: in 1986, private medical services were added to the government's inventory of facilities, with the objective of making the island into an international medical hub. In 1986 this was not labe...
This book identifies a range of issues and emerging trends in relation to medical tourism in the 21st Century. One basic issue is the relationship between medical tourism and the wider concept of health and wellness as a framework for living in the present, and another is determination of the extent to which concepts of health and wellness act as a...
This article explores the potential of geosystems as a conservation framework within a geopark. The Izu Peninsula Geopark in Japan is analyzed for this purpose. Key characteristics of the geosystems approach are evaluation of geodiversity, holistic appraisal of processes operating at large spatiotemporal dimensions, and emphasis on the underlying u...
Volcanic tourism destinations
are the theme of this book, and the National Parks on the islands of Japan are a tourist mecca in this regard, with many active sites, geothermal fields and their related phenomena such as volcanic hot springs as attractions.
Linked volcanism has become a world recognised tourism resource of today in two particular locations. The attractions that are now the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland and Fingal’s
Cave in Scotland were formed by the same lava flows about 60 million years ago.
Tourism and hospitality organisations depend on market knowledge to compete in innovation, product development, and customer relationship management. This paper shows that new forms of social media provide valuable and previously difficult to obtain real-time knowledge on tourist perceptions, concerns, and sentiment towards tourist destinations - b...
Despite the undisputed importance of organizational innovation, and despite decades of academic research on the subject, there is surprisingly little agreement on what innovativeness really means to a hospitality business, and how it may be enhanced. Furthermore, exploration of the differences between the theory and practice of innovation, as inter...
The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book. As well as providing a case study for the purpose of investigating the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st Century, thi...
Demographic change is creating a buyer’s market for university education within Japan while the needs of the Asia-Pacific region in terms of capacity building add a further dimension of uncertainty for a local University also dependent to a considerable extent on this market for a viable student intake. This Chapter looks at the current Ritsumeikan...
The growth of the audit culture in the world academic research system as typified by the United Kingdom Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has led to an extreme preoccupation with research league tables, and their associated branding, marketing, and managerial strategies. The most examined of all research league tables is the UK RAE, which has been...
The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book. As well as providing a case study for the purpose of investigating the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st Century, thi...
This book exemplifies the ecological, social and economic perspectives of sustainable island tourism development. The book consists of 15 chapters presented in three parts. Cases in this book include cold water islands in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans, as well as islands in the more popular warmer climes of the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the...
In this paper we mine over 80 million twitter micro logs in order to explore whether data from this social media initiative can be used to identify sentiment about tourism and Thailand amid the unrest in that country during the early part of 2010 and further whether analysis of tweets can be used to discern the effect of that unrest on Phuket's tou...
At the start of the twenty-first century it was confidently predicted by many that this period would become the 'Asian Century' or the 'Asia Pacific Century.' Now that we are entering its second decade, this prediction still seems on course, despite some dissent (Huang 2009), though
the possible meaning of what this might entail has subtly changed....
Sentiment mining aims at extracting features on which users express their opinions in order to determine the user's sentiment towards the query object. We mine over 70 million Twitter microblogs to gain knowledge regarding tourist sentiment on the travel resort destination Cancun in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. We measure sentiment using a bina...
The Internet and other technological developments are now playing increasing roles in the management of knowledge within consumer health behavior and the delivery of health services. Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems provides multidisciplinary best practices and experiences in knowledge management r...
Iran has significant potential for an international tourism industry based on culture and heritage. However, the rich fusion of Persian and Islamic cultures that distinguishes Iran from the rest of the Middle East is not easily promoted for tourism internationally, mainly as a result of successive American and European attempts at forcing Iran's is...
Sleep problems are frequently witnessed in aged care facilities with a large proportion going undetected. Multiple factors are known to contribute many abnormal sleep/wake patterns for residents. A systematic review conducted by Haesler (2004) provided a guide to the direction of future research into sleep in older adults residing in care facilitie...
Rivers constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a means of transport, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the environment and natural world. River tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world's tourism consumption, with activities such as Nile cruises and rafting holiday...
This book explores river tourism from a range of perspectives including river uses, heritage, management, environmental concerns, and marketing. The book has 15 chapters and an index. The intended readership includes researchers and students of leisure and tourism.
This book explores river tourism from a range of perspectives including river uses, heritage, management, environmental concerns, and marketing. The book has 15 chapters and an index. The intended readership includes researchers and students of leisure and tourism.
The growth and development of health and wellness tourism based on hot springs
Geothermal springs constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a recognised value in treatments beneficial for health and wellness, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the natural environment. Health and wellness tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world’s tourism consum...
In a landmark study carried out for the New South Wales State Government in 1976 the present author analysed the economic impact of the meetings and convention industry in Australia. That report laid the foundation for the development of the Sydney Entertainment and Exhibition Centre, although it was not until some time later that purpose-built con...
The tropical coast of Queensland, Australia is experiencing rapid population and tourism growth. Heavy development pressure is being placed on the biophysical environment, which includes the largest sand island in the world (World Heritage listed), Fraser Island. Despite the existence of State planning legislation oriented towards environmental sus...
The mass tourism industry in Australia has been widely seen as an important countervailing force to the problem of rural-urban drift. Tourist expenditure, it is hoped, will replace declining rural- based industries and bring a viable economic regime to rural service centres in recognised tourist areas. These assertions are tested by relating touris...
This chapter provides a brief overview of the available technologies and opportunities for the use of virtual reality in tourism marketing. It acknowledges that in almost all formulations of the tourism marketing model to date however, much has been made of the notion that tourism is unique because production and consumption occur not only at the s...
In regional Australia there is a growing interest and investment in community capacity building and this is beginning to be formalised in a desire to integrate information communications technology opportunities with other forms of community development. This paper explores the opportunity for greater social integration based on the formation of co...
This chapter provides a brief overview of the available technologies and opportunities for the use of virtual reality in tourism marketing. It acknowledges that in almost all formulations of the tourism marketing model to date however, much has been made of the notion that tourism is unique because production and consumption occur not only at the s...
This chapter provides a brief overview of the available technologies and opportunities for the use of virtual reality in tourism marketing. It acknowledges that in almost all formulations of the tourism marketing model to date however, much has been made of the notion that tourism is unique because production and consumption occur not only at the s...
Tourism is one of the leading industries worldwide. The magnitude of growth in tourism will bring both opportunities and problems to source and destination markets in years to come, especially in the internal and external exchange of information in the industry. Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry examines...
In this article the authors address a simple question: What will the already observable demographic changes mean for tourism in Japan, apart from the presence of older people? Indeed, if the population will be nearly halved in the next 50 years, one must actually address the question of whether many of the more peripheral communities in Japan will...
This chapter provides a brief overview of the available technologies and opportunities for the use of virtual reality in tourism marketing. It acknowledges that in almost all formulations of the tourism marketing model to date however, much has been made of the notion that tourism is unique because production and consumption occur not only at the s...
Tourism recommender systems (TRS) have become popular in recent years; however, most lack visual means of presenting the recommendations. This paper presents ways of developing visual travel recommender systems (V-TRS). The two popular travel recommender systems being used today are the TripMatcher™ and Me-Print™. Tour recommendation using image-ba...
This chapter provides a brief overview of the available technologies and opportunities for the use of virtual reality in tourism marketing. It acknowledges that in almost all formulations of the tourism marketing model to date however, much has been made of the notion that tourism is unique because production and consumption occur not only at the s...
With examples drawn from the UK, Europe, the USA, Australia, and Asia, this book brings together a range of expert academic analysis of theory and practice concerning crisis management in tourism. Part I (chapters 2-11) deals with theoretical foundations of crisis management. Part II (chapters 12-17) deals with tourism crises arising from natural c...
This book aims to enhance theoretical and practical understanding of quality management in tourism and hospitality. Part I (chapters 1-5) deals with the core issue of managing customer satisfaction. Part II (chapters 6-8) focuses on structural issues, particularly competition and collaboration, both of which are strongly characteristic of the indus...
Attempts to show that the situation that urban Aborigines find themselves in has been seen to be an inevitable consequence of the evolution of Australian capitalist society. Nowadays Aborigines are necessary to the evolution of Australian society in that they are now part of urban capitalism's need for marginal employment. Institutionalized discrim...
The Pacific War segment of the Second World War provides several important sites in the touristic geography of war and peace today—the more violent the particular conflict area, the more ‘attractions’ it appears to provide. Discussion of Japanese involvement and therefore of Japanese battlefield tourism has, however, been made more problematic by a...
This paper chronicles and analyses the reactions of the Japanese tourist industry and tourists towards one of the major crises affecting world tourism during 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Secondary sources are used to build up a picture of the impact of the SARS event on tourist flows to and from Japan during the period of the cri...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons behind and the nature of the intervention of non-local levels of government in local land management and economic development to assist the development of major tourism facilities. Two examples are provided of government intervention, one from Japan and one from Australia, and they show how st...
