September 2012

Tourism development in protected areas: A case study of Al-Moez Street in Cairo

Nature reserves are a means of conserving natural and cultural treasures which if lost, can never be restored for its importance. Several international organizations cater for nature reserves.  In 1966, the Tourism and Conservation Authority was established. It belongs to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which caters for nature reserves and their management.  With the growing attention...

Author(s): Nashaat Essayed Mortada, Farouk Abdel-Naby Hassanein and Susan Bakry Hasan

September 2012

A tourism demand based method of geosites assessment on geotourism prioritization modeling: The case of Razavi Khorasan Province

A systematic prioritization model maintains standards based on different levels of categorization to evaluate the sustainability of geosites. This approach makes use of an analytical hierarchical method to manage and prioritize a geotourism system on the base of tourism demand. The research concentrated on the importance of sustainable tourism planning to develop and investigate successful tourism activities using...

Author(s): Shojaee Siuki Hassan, Kowalczyk. Andrzej and Atefeh Einafshar

September 2012

Destination personality, self-congruity and loyalty

Despite the interests on destination branding in general, there has been scarce investigations on destination personality which is described as the set of human characteristics associated with a destination. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived destination personality of Bodrum (a famous destination in Turkey) and the relationship among destination personality, self-congruity and loyalty. In 8 to...

Author(s): Burhan KILIÇ and Serhat Adem SOP