Vol. 6 No. 1 (2007)

Tourism and the environment are intricately and inseparably interlinked, with many positive relationships as well as several irreversible negative impacts. Destinations of higher environmental quality attract tourists and in that process are also transmuted, either positively or negatively. Drawing evidences largely from the Indian context, the present paper analyzes the root causes of tourism related degradation in environmental quality and suggests alternatives that synergizes tourism and environment. Two case studies are presented: one to show how tourism produces inferior environmental…

In Indonesia, the tourism business, international tourism in particular, had been proceeding since the beginning of the 20th century and was increasingly confirming its existence during the period of the 1970-ies up to the 1990-ies due to the government planned development policy at that time. The development had impacted considerably on various sectors related to the country

Tourism crises are becoming increasingly common, triggered by events within and outside the industry. Understanding the crisis process and managing it effectively are thus important issues for those involved in tourism. Vietnam confronted one such crisis in 2003 when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, which affected a number of countries in the region, was discovered in Hanoi. Fears of the disease led to a sudden fall in tourist arrivals and prompted a response from the industry in the areas of health and safety, finance, human resources and marketing. Management of the…

Fuzzy regression model (FRM) is an alternative to evaluate the relation between variables among the forecasting models, when the data are not sufficient to identify the relation and we have uncertainty in data. Behavior and thinking of the people, with their differences on emotions and intuitions, produce the ambiguity in social studies. Instead of using point estimation in conventional probability theory, fuzzy set theory can be used to granulate a concept into a set with membership function and thus decreases the amount of required data. In the last two decades, Fuzzy Sets Theory that was…

Hotel industry is a form of an intense interaction between employee and consumer. When a hotel chooses to perform in a perfect manner, then every operational mistakes will be considered as a loss and lowered brand asset value in consumer