May 2011

The role of sport tourism in employment, income and economic development

  Sport tourism is a new concept in the world having the most growth in tourism industry. Many countries enjoy an appropriate status with respect to sport tourism and, accordingly, contribute directly to their nation’s economic prosperity. Hence, the goal of this research is to compare and survey tourism managers, interest managers and tourisms’ ideas about creation of sport tourism-induced...

Author(s): Fazele Homafar, Habib Honari, Akbar Heidary, Taghi Heidary and Afsane Emami

May 2011

Strategy formulation for the recreational areas of Central Taiwan: An application of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis

  Recreational areas are economically beneficial and can directly assist both local communities and nations in achieving sustainable environmental development. This study combines analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) method to construct a quantifiable SWOT model to assess strategy formulation for nine recreational areas in central Taiwan. The...

Author(s): Lee T. H. and Liu R. T.