“Wellness tourism provides the visitor with a range of activities and/or treatments which are aimed at developing, maintaining and improving the body-mind-sprit; it covers the broadest scope of engagement: ranging from weekend hotel-spa breaks that include massage treatments, to intensive month-long yoga and spiritual retreats.” The term wellness in this article represents an impression [...]
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The Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup and the Paralympics are all forms of sport tourism. Sports tourism is a multi-billion dollar business, one of the fastest growing areas of the global travel and tourism industry. It has become an international business attracting media coverage, investment, political interest and travelling participants. The question is; [...] The debate about commoditisation in tourism has been long present in the literature but has recently gotten more attention with the rise of alternative forms of tourism such as cultural and heritage tourism. Closely linked to the notion of commoditisation is the concept of authenticity. One view is that commoditisation destroys the local culture [...] 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 [...] Tourism is undergoing changes and new trends keep rising. An interesting trend to evaluate is experience-based tourism. Tourism has always been concerned with visiting, seeing and living in a different mode of life. The new trend experience adds more value to the time the tourist spends in a destination. Because of this new trend [...] |
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