Globally, tourism is currently one of the fastest-growing industries, with strong impacts on
territories, from an environmental, economic and social point of view. The increase in the …

Recognizing the importance of local community participation in responsible tourism and its
benefits, this case study explores and analyses the local community participation and …

Managing ecotourism through appropriate zoning is critical for land use planning. This study
is the first to integrate a geographic information system (GIS) with a Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy …

Traditional travel agencies and tour operators are recognized as relevant stakeholders in
the tourism distribution chain, even though their role as transforming agents in the …

Research on cultural heritage and disasters often focuses on the vulnerability of heritage
and ways to disaster-proof it against geophysical, societal, and environmental hazards …

From a sustainability perspective, achieving greater efficiencies in environmental waste
management is at the heart of current academic discussion on climate change science. Over …

The conservation and sustainable tourism development of natural World Heritage has been
one of the most challenging topics worldwide. One topic based on the identification of sites' …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to postulate that the technique of Importance-
Performance Analysis (IPA) is currently underutilised in visitor management studies reported …

This study aims to evaluate the suitability of Torghabeh Shandiz in Khorasan Razavi
Province, Iran, for intensive tourism development. Due to having a sensitive and fragile …

The concept of cultural heritage is very broad, including: built-heritage, physiognomy of
landscape as well as diverse intangible cultural values. Therefore, numerous diverse …