JOURNAL OF TOURISM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Year:2019 | Volume:8 | Issue:28|Papers Count:7

The aim of this paper is to offer a philosophical analysis of ecotourism destruction. By an emphasis on Heidegger’ s thought, the approach of this study is phenomenological. The study’ s style is phenomenological description. In a general sense according to the findings, the destructive effects of ecotourism depend on the attitude of tourists. And the view of tourist regarding nature is associated with his mode of being, respectively. Nowadays, for the predominance of mercantilist view over ecotourism industry, the proper outlook has been ruined and as it’ s result, the deep relationship between man and nature has been encountered with crisis. The phenomenological analysis of Heidegger provides a possibility for understanding such an incident, but nevertheless, Heidegger unleashes a solution in order to resolve this crisis. In Heidegger’ s view, developing an art-oriented attitude regarding nature could be a suitable alternative for such an exploitative attitude.

Introduction: The article examines the impact of tourism policy on the cultural diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Central Asia from 1990 to 2017 and explains the factors influencing tourism policy in the framework of Iranian cultural diplomacy. The research seeks to explore the question of how much tourism policy has strengthened and promoted the cultural diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Central Asia. . . .

Introduction: Tourism literature is devoid of a concept by the name of the Smart Tourism Organization (STO). Given the lack of research into this concept, some questions arise around it. For instance, given the advances in tourism in the new millennium, what has changed in the structure of tourism service organizations? Considering the competitive nature of the tourism industry and the technologies advancement, can the traditional structure of tourism organizations satisfy tourists, managers, stakeholders, and employees? The present study was conducted with a comprehensive approach to organizations in the postmodern era (Hatch, 2018) and seeks a new type of organization for the subject of STO. This new type of organization recognizes the different dimensions of intelligence in the external environment of organizations and seeks to train them. The primary purpose of this study is to select the dimensions of intelligence in tourism organizations and the effect of these dimensions on the development of a smart tourism organization according to the situation of this industry....

Introduction: Tourism has grown considerably over the last half century as an economic and social activity. Tourism is a complex and expanding activity and it is an effective blow to promote the livelihood, employment and culture of nations. Tourism is considered as one of the tools for achieving development, as such, the combination of both domestic and foreign resources simultaneously has many social, economic, environmental and cultural benefits. By 2017, the number of tourists has risen to over one billion and 322 million. It's expected to reach 1. 6 billion by 2020, with a turnover of more than $ 2 trillion around the world. About 10 percent of the global economy's cash flow belongs to tourism and its related activities, and 12 percent of the world's total spending is provided through tourism revenues. In most countries, in order to identify and objectify tourism activities, with a view to achieve developmental goals, places are being marked to create tourism facilities and services to tourists. . . .

Introduction: Social networks are referred to databases whose primary goals are to set up and serve, establish communication and social interactions through their networks, share their interests and experiences. Social network users, through their activity in these networks, encounter a variety of information in different formats and contents (Jenkin, 2010). Basically, tourists need information about the destinations to choose their destination. They constantly collect information from the mass media, including TV, satellite, and internet. Tourists prefer to receive a significant portion of their information from sources, including relatives, friends, acquaintances, and others (Suvrey et al., 2014). . . .

In recent years, the increasing number of wealthy Muslims has propelled halal industry (halal: permissible according to Islamic law) to provide a way of life including halal travel and halal hospitality services. Although Iran is an Islamic country and has all of conditions for halal tourism but its share is only 160 million dollars, equivalent to 3% of the world's halal tourism industry and in the ranking of top destinations of tourism halal in 2018 is in the 17th position. The rapid growth of the Halal Tourism Market and the competition of destinations to obtain a part of this market due to its potential economic, cultural, religious and political potential show the need to pay attention to Halal tourism and the competitive presence in this market. Since the starting point for genesis of strategies for improving the competitive position of a destination can be considered similar to the factors affecting competitiveness, this study aims to prioritize Iran's competitiveness factors in halal tourism based on a model from competition model of Dwyer and Kim. . . .

The main goal of the present research is to measure cultural empathic skills of front-line employees of five 4 and 5 star hotels from Parsian hotel group. This will identify weaknesses and strengths of such skills and consequently, will pave the way for formulating appropriate strategies so as to improve the weak points. Data were gathered using self-reported questionnaires based on Ethnocultrual Empathic Scale (Wang et al., 2003). The primary findings indicate that the minimum averaged score of this scale’ s items (4. 11) was well above the middle score of a seven-point Likert scale used in the questionnaire (3. 5). So, it could be argued that the ethnocultural empathic skills/inclinations of this hotel group’ employees are not poor. Methodologically, the discrepancy between the current research and other research related to Wang et al. ’ s scale or other empathic scale lies in the fact that the former takes into account prioritization of various dimensions of empathy scale applying one of the multiple criteria decision making methods. This was done considering empathic skills and inclinations of the samples and an entropy-based TOPSIS to analyze the data. The final results show that the subjects are strong in empathic perspective taking, empathic feeling and expression, acceptance of cultural differences, and empathic awareness, respectively. This draws the attention of this hotel group’ s managers to empower their front-line employees with two dimensions of acceptance of cultural differences and empathic awareness.