Vol 2, Issue 1, September 2014
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Journals
Youth Tourists’ Profile and Their Travel Choices As Influenced By Social Media Networks
The development of Social Media has conveyed important changes in the behavioural models of tourists, as well as, in the way users search, assess, produce, purchase and consume information, products and services. The scope of this paper is to study the effects of Social Media on youth tourism, the profile of young tourists’ actively participating
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Tourism Product Development, a Strategy of Managing Plastic Solid Waste in Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya
Contemporary art tourism is new in Kenya but it is considered as old as tourism itself because for centuries many societies had already given much appreciation for the arts and culture. Recycling of plastic materials is being encouraged because of the negative effects plastic products do have on the environment all over the world. The
Evaluation Of Ikogosi Warm Spring; A Potential Geotourist Site In Ekiti State, Southwest, Nigeria
Government’s objectives for the establishment of Ikogosi Warm Spring as a tourist attraction was investigated vis-à-vis its current status, operation and contribution to adjourning community in an evaluative study. Various methods of sampling technique were employed to select sample for this study. First, purposive sampling method was used to select 100 residents of the Ikogosi
The Impacts of Tourism Industry on Host Community
It is a well-known fact that tourism is a sector that can contribute to the economic growth of a region. Moreover, tourism produces social benefits to the region (i.e. small and medium-sized enterprises’ development, creation of new jobs, improvement of infrastructure etc.). Culturally, tourism is said to be an element of community enrichment, thanks to
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Spatial Variation and Determinants of Interaction among Urban Centres in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
The aim of the study was to determine the volume of interaction among the urban centers in the study region and to assess the relationship between the observed volume of interaction and the expected volume of interaction in the study region. Six urban centres were selected from the thirty-one urban centres in the study region
The Strategy for Maritime Attraction Development in Bawean Islands, Indonesia
The research shows that the maritime attractions in the Bawean islands have the great potential to be the islands’ main attraction since the panorama of beach and sea meets the 3S criteria (sun, sea, sand), and they have good quality of marine ecosystem. Noko island becomes the first priority over other tourist destinations in Bawean
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