Vol. 12 No. 1 (2013)

This study has examined the factors affecting for the demand for agritourism in Sri Lanka. Demographic factors, awareness and desire on agritourism of the visitors and purposes of visiting agritourism operations have also been examined. The study was based on a survey of 128 local visitors in one of the agritourism operations in the country. Stepwise regression analysis was used to analyze the data. Agritourism visitors are middle aged educated employees having higher monthly income. Further most of them are married and have children. The awareness level on agritourism in Sri Lankan visitors…

Tourism is increasingly a major aspect of the global economy, the global market share of the Asian and Pacific region increased from 15.7 per cent in 1996 to 19.8 per cent in 2006.With the growing recognition of tourism as a source of employment generating growth in the countries, improved understanding of what tourism is, its role in the economy and its relationship to other parts of the economy is important. The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a new framework recently adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission that provides an important platform towards forging improved…

The purpose of this paper was to investigate internships in the hospitality sector and identify factors that contribute to student satisfaction from this working and learning experience. Students that had completed their internships from both public and private higher education institutions in Greece participated in this study. The findings suggest that overall students demonstrated a favourable perception towards their internship experience. This research also suggests that working in a professional environment, the learning experience, social interaction with supervisors/staff and the…

The development of tourism in Bandung over the past decade caused both a positive and a negative impact on social and environmental aspects. Concentration of tourist activity which spread across many parts of the city could be a source of congestion and air pollution now and in the future.Negative impacts of tourism on the environment in Bandung city was also suffered by the people. Awareness of people and tourist concerning the importance of a healthy, comfortable, and sustainable environment in the future could encourage community spirit to develop Bandung urban tourism which are high…

Asian Highway route No. 4, the only main national highway that links to the North South Economic corridor of the Greater Mekong Sub-region at Bangkok, is the gateway for East Asian countries to enter into the Thailand by land transport. Hence, the twin purposes of this paper are to a) appraise the present state of international tourist arrivals by land transport into Songkhla province of Thailand and to b) model the associated risk. Conditional mean and conditional volatility models from the ARCH family were adopted to illustrate the behavior of daily international tourist arrivals into the…