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All a question of taste – wine tourism and destination development

In regions where wine is produced, vineyards are often the dominant factor in the shaping of the landscape and wine growers contribute great parts to the agricultural production of the area. The beauty of the landscape and the possibility to see first-hand where and how wine is produced appeal to wine consumers [...]

The political ideologies and government styles can be problem for Sustainable Tourism Examples from the Netherlands and Turkey

One of the critiques about the sustainable tourism is that the concept created and introduced by developed western countries without taking developing countries’ conditions which caused confusion about perceptions’ of developing countries. The structure of countries’ political ideologies and government style can be a problem too. In general, developed countries’ [...]

The threat of interdependency

The current record in domino toppling is 4 491 863 (www.recordholders.org, 31-10-2010)

2007 was the year when the first global financial crisis of the third millennium took off. Three years later the world is still recovering from it. This blog entry will touch upon the impact it had on the tourism industry but stresses [...]

Stop space tourism visions – face the reality

Summary: Collins, P. & Autino, A., (2010). What the growth of a space tourism industry could contribute to employment, economic growth, environmental protection, education, culture and world peace. Acta Astronautica. 66. 1553-1562.

If the development of space travel and rocket science was not influenced by the cold war after the 1950ies the [...]

The Benefits of Space Tourism

“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is [...]