scholarly journals Natural Resources in Health Tourism: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2661
Author(s):  
Elena Pessot ◽  
Daniele Spoladore ◽  
Andrea Zangiacomi ◽  
Marco Sacco
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Research Stream

Natural resources are recognized among the key determinants for the improvement of wellness, and thus the development and sustainability of health tourism destinations. This study applied a systematic review to investigate the contributions mapping and analyzing under different perspectives the value of the natural resources of a destination and related activities for health tourism. The main research topics identified from a review of 52 papers include the analysis and exploitation of natural resources in health tourism, the nature-based factors considered in clustering of tourists and their motivations, the development of value offer and marketing, as well as the cultural issues. Research gaps and future directions are summarized in a research agenda laying the foundations for the development of a multidisciplinary research stream focused on nature-based health tourism. Results also represent a key reference for managers and policy makers to identify key issues, areas of intervention and practices for industry development in the health tourism destinations through an effective and sustainable exploitation of natural resources.

Managing change in tourism destinations: Key issues and current trends

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello M. Mariani ◽  
Dimitrios Buhalis ◽  
Christian Longhi ◽  
Ourania Vitouladiti
Keyword(s):  
Managing Change ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Tourism Destinations

scholarly journals Classification and Measurement of the Firms’ Resources and Capabilities Applied to Eco-Innovation Projects from a Resource-Based View Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Portillo-Tarragona ◽  
Sabina Scarpellini ◽  
Jose Moneva ◽  
Jesus Valero-Gil ◽  
Alfonso Aranda-Usón
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

Interest from academics, policy–makers and practitioners in eco-innovation has increased as it enables the optimization of the use of natural resources improving competitiveness and it provides a conceptual framework for corporate sustainability. In this context, this paper provides an in-depth analysis and a wide classification of the specific indicators for the integrated measurement of eco-innovation projects in business from a resource-based view (RBV). The specific metrics were tested to measure the economic-financial and environmental resources and capabilities applied by five Spanish firms to eco-innovation projects, selected as case studies.

scholarly journals Southern Rural Public Schools: A Study of Teacher Perspectives

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Teacher Perspectives ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Qualitative Aspect ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Low Expectations ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Cycle Of Poverty

This ethnography explores teachers’ perspectives of the cultural issues affecting academic performance in twelve public high schools in rural Mississippi and Louisiana. Fr om a thematic analysis of the tape-recorded interviews of forty-one mathematics teachers, five categories emerged, each comprising a qualitative aspect of teaching high school in an economically depressed area of the deep South: society, race, students, families, and schools. Each of these categories is discussed and explicated using exemplars from the interviews to show how each category emerged from the data. In addition, the relationships among these categories, which form a destructive cycle of poverty, low expectations, poor academic achievement, and inadequate opportunity, are discussed. Implications of this research for teachers and policy makers are explored.

scholarly journals The use of cultural risk assessment within the 1994 Tribal land-grant colleges and universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Alvin L Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Cultural Issues

In 1994, the United States Congress established 35 Colleges or Universities on Reservation Lands of the Native Americans throughout the Midwest and Western United States. These new institutions were provided annual funds from the United States Department of Agriculture for education, research and extension, components of the Land-Grant system. Today, issues related to risk assessment and risk management confront tribal decision-makers as they cope with risks, both real and perceived, that include the transportation of hazardous materials through the reservation, the clean-up of contaminated sites within the reservation, the environmental restoration of Federal facilities, the siting of waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, the development of tribal mineral and other natural resources, and the construction and operation of industrial and commercial facilities within the reservation. Tribal decision-makers lack Indian-specific epidemiologic, genetic, and cultural information that impact current risk assessment models needed to incorporate tribal cultural issues. There is a need to enhance the science skills of tribal college faculty in assisting tribal councils and tribal colleges in the long-term planning and stewardship of natural resources on their reservations.

scholarly journals Prioritization of Brand Equity Components Using an Integrated Structural Equation Modelling and Fuzzy AHP

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-365
Author(s):  
Gelare Mortezaei ◽  
Hamidreza Alizadeh Otaghvar ◽  
Hossein Vazifehdoost ◽  
Parviz Saeedi ◽  
Abdolaziz Pegheh
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
National Level ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Tourism Destinations

Brand equity of health tourism is the set of assets (or liabilities) of the brand in relation to the name and symbol of the tourism destination that cause changes in the value of services and experiences that are determined there. Considering the characteristics and cultural, social and economic capacities of Iranian tourism destinations, this study tends to develop a model for brand equity in health tourism, derived from the Acker model, according to Iran's conditions and studies conducted. First, previous studies in this regard were carefully reviewed by meta-synthesis. Then the mixed method including qualitative and quantitative methods was applied. The data were analyzed using grounded theory and MAXQDA18 software and then using structural equation method and fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy AHP). Statistical population included experts including professors in the field of marketing and health tourism specialists for qualitative part, and foreign users of health tourism services of Iran for quantitative part. The results showed that hospital brand equity is directly affected by brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality, brand loyalty, social responsibility, firm value and customer value. As a result, at the national level, investing in this sector and branding and paying attention to brand equity of health tourism can make Iran one of the best health tourism destinations in the world.

scholarly journals Health tourism in Lviv region: current state and development prospects

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Tourist Flows

Introduction. Health tourism is considered a kind of tourism which is carried out for the purpose of prevention of various diseases and the recreation and provides for guests accommodation in sanatorium-and-spa establishments. This is a special form of tourism, which includes providing medical treatment (often non-drug) or health improvement services. Problem formulation. Health tourism takes one of the leading places in the tourism industry. This is mostly caused by the increase in the population wellbeing. Analysis of recent research and publications. Studies of the development of health tourism in general and in the Lviv region in particular are presented in the works of many Ukrainian and foreign scientists. The article fulfilled the analysis of foreign and domestic sources, which allowed to identify the following ideas that are of interest for the study of health tourism in Lviv region and many other regions of Ukraine Highlighting previously unsolved parts of the overall problem. The fulfilled study allowed us to assess approaches to the analysis of the current state of health tourism in general and in the Lviv region in particular. The literature is dominated by the opinion that the resort sphere of Lviv region attracts tourists with both favorable prices and a wide range of available services. The issues of estimating the tourist flows coming into the territory of Lviv region were also considered. At the same time, insufficient attention was paid to the study of the status of medical tourism, to the substantiation of proposals aimed at optimizing the development and the improvement of functioning of spa resorts in Lviv region. Formulating the purpose of the paper. The focus of this paper will be set on an objective assessment of the current conditions of the tourism industry based on a quantitative analysis of available statistical data with cartographic and modern statistical methods. Presentation of the main research material. The main directions of formation and development of health tourism in the world are outlined. Cheap health care and leisure services are provided mainly in the resorts of Asia, Latin America and Australia, as well as in some European countries. This is due to the cost of labor, as well as global pricing mechanisms. The main stages in the development of health tourism in Lviv region are distinguished. The description of Lviv region as an arena for the development of health tourism is given. Spa resorts of Lviv region are attractive first of all by the prices, and also by the wide range of available services. The resort sphere of Lviv region has been studied. Tourist flows in the region are being characterized. Conclusions. The main means of popularizing spa resorts of Lviv region have been identified, including advertising, Internet sources, exhibitions, forums and conferences. The proposals have been worked out directed on optimization of development and improvement of functioning of spa resorts of the Lviv region.

W(h)ither Media Influence?

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Cunningham ◽  
Angela Romano
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Complex Flows ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Central Term

During 1999–2000, the Productivity Commission's inquiry into Broadcasting, together with the ABA's ‘cash for comment’ inquiry, painted the old shibboleth of media influence in a new light. Influence has been a central term in government media regulation, but the term has rarely been interrogated from first principles in the policy domain. Assumptions have been made about the greater influence of television compared with radio, in spite of ongoing controversy centring around the cash for comment inquiry that has spotlighted both the power of talkback radio kings and their potential to misuse it. Policy-makers and politicians have also been overly optimistic about the potential of new media forms to ameliorate concentration of influence in the hands of media oligopolies. After examining the complex flows of influence within and between media organisations, this paper lists several recommendations for future directions in research on the subject.

scholarly journals Introduction to special issue: the <i>TransBrom Sonne</i> expedition in the tropical West Pacific

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1401-1418 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Krüger ◽  
B. Quack
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Biological Parameters ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Transport Pathways ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Scientific Results

Abstract. This special issue provides an overview of scientific results from the TransBrom Sonne expedition in the tropical West Pacific, conducted during October 2009. The ship cruise was part of the national research project TransBrom Sonne, investigating very short lived bromine compounds in the ocean and their transport pathways into the stratosphere. For this purpose chemical and biological parameters were analysed in the ocean and the atmosphere, accompanied by intense meteorological measurements, to derive more insights in this multidisciplinary research field. This introduction paper presents the scientific goals and the meteorological and oceanographic background. The main research findings of the TransBrom Sonne expedition are highlighted.

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