“Wherever I go, there you are” the mobility/mooring paradigm in travel journalism by Duffy, Andrew

“…Content analysis of newspaper travel journalism finds that mobility of travel and ideas is expressed as novelty, exotica and adventure; and that these are moored in presumed audience schemata of social identification, cultural similarity, and a shared awareness of tourist behaviour. Second, the interplay between mobility and mooring reveals presumed, accepted and established structures of power, representing a host country via the cultural frameworks of the writer’s nation.…”
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Android smartphone-based participatory sensing by Agustian, Robert

“…The Travel Trail aims to create a unique platform leveraging on the social network style that provides tourist/travel enthusiasts with the ability to create their own collections of travel journals. …”
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Forecasting air passenger volume in Singapore: Determining the explanatory variables for econometric models by Guo, Rui, Zhong, Zhao Wei

“…This paper explores several explanatory variables, such as Singapore GDP, China GDP, exchange rate and tourist numbers, to build econometric models to predict the air passenger movements and analyzes and compares the relative results from corresponding models. …”
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Social impact assessment in measuring environmental sustainability in tourism project development: trends in the existing literature by Mohd. Khusairy, Nabiha, Ismail, Hairul Nizam

“…However, issues arise as to how certain development projects such as tourism, which allow visitors and tourists arrival, will cope with the future carrying capacity. …”
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Local Community Development through community-based tourism management: a Case Study of Mae Kampong Village by Jitpakdee, Pit, Harun, Azhar, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…With the assistance from scholar , public and private organizations, the non-governmental agencies, governmental officials and environmentalist, the community-based tourism (CBT) has become and alternative for tourist who would like to experience the local ways of live. …”
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The road more travelled : how user-generated content can lead to homogenized travel journalism by Duffy, Andrew

“…Even when they actively expressed a desire for heterogeneous alternative viewpoints and agendas, Internet media directed them back towards mainstream tourist themes. The implications for more self-reflexive and varied attitudes towards tourism and tourism media are discussed.…”
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Improvement of the riding comfort for sentosa cable car cabin by Er, Han Guang

“…The list of feasible cooling concepts will be presented to the Mount Faber Cable Car Group for consideration to be implemented with the hope to improve and reduce the interior temperature of the cabin and hence brings about a relaxing and comfortable ride for the tourist in Singapore.…”
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Development of point-of-interest recommendation web application by How, Jiahe

“…In today’s modern technology age, whereby users have access to high bandwidth network, it has been a norm for people to frequently visit recommendation website to look for point-of-interests such as nearby restaurants or tourist attractions. However, most recommendation systems such as “HungryGoWhere” would only provide recommendation for 1 type of category, such as food for this instance, which proves to be uninformative for general users. …”
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The Potential of Tasik Gubir as a Popular Agro Tourism Destination in Kedah by Omar, Salmah, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ismail, Nor Hanani, Paidi, Zulhilmi, Hj. Rofie, Mohamad Khadafi

“…Although there are many beautiful and fascinating areas, such as Tasik Gubir (Lake Gubir) in Sik, not much research has been done to make the area a popular tourist attraction. This makes Tasik Gubir less popular and rarely visited by tourists, especially from outside of Kedah. …”
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The influence of nature and culture in the formation of traditional food at Lenggong Valley, Perak by Abdul Raji, Mohd Nazri, Ab. Karim, Shahrim, Esa, Jamilah Hani

“…Beside inheritance, the uniqueness and differences of Lenggong’s traditional food connotes a potential that can also be benefited as a tourist attraction.…”
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Medical tourism in South East Asia: Science mapping of present and future trends by Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Norhana, Mohd Aripin, Nur Sofia Nabila, Alimin, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Wider, Walton, Siti Sarah, Maidin, Zainul-Abideen, Ahmed Yousif Abbas

“…Findings: Findings show that current trends produced four themes: Fundamentals of medical tourism in Southeast Asia, determinants of tourist medical tourism visits, quality of medical and health service in Southeast Asia and impact of medical tourism on national economic growth. …”
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First record of multi-species synchronous coral spawning from Malaysia by Chelliah, Alvin, Amar, Halimi Bin, Hyde, Julian, Yewdall, Katie, Guest, James R., Steinberg, Peter David

“…Here we present the first documentation of a multi-species coral spawning event from reefs around Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia, a popular diving and tourist destination located on the edge of the coral triangle. …”
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The unravel travel campaign by Guo, Lucas Zhengxuan, Dali, Carolyn Luo Lin, Tan, Kor Woong, Chew, Kalyn Jia Hui

“…Targeted at young adults aged 18 to 28, Unravel Travel Campaign aims to deepen the understanding of travel by making a clear distinction between travel and holiday, traveller and tourist, generate awareness of cities lesser-known within Southeast Asia by providing tailored information on them and empower our target audience by sending them to selected cities as travel bloggers. …”
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Infectious diseases acquired by international travellers visiting the USA by Stoney, Rhett J, Esposito, Douglas H., Kozarsky, Phyllis, Hamer, Davidson H., Grobusch, Martin P., Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Libman, Michael, Gautret, Philippe, Lim, Poh Lian, Leder, Karin, Schwartz, Eli, Sotir, Mark J., Licitra, Carmelo

“…Despite being a top international tourist destination, few sources describe the spectrum of infectious diseases acquired among travellers to the USA. …”
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The risk of dengue for non-immune foreign visitors to the 2016 summer olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento, Greenhalgh, David, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Amaku, Marcos, Lopez, Luis Fernandez, Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra, Ximenes, Raphael, Struchiner, Claudio José, Massad, Eduardo

“…Methods A mathematical model to calculate the risk of developing dengue for foreign tourists attending the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 is proposed. …”
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Environmental and social assessments of an Island Marine Park in Malaysia by Mohd Noor, Mohd Iqbal

“…With increasing number of tourist arrivals and greater tourism development in the area, issues of sustainability of Tioman Island Marine Park might be put into questions. …”
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Emerging Materials, Technologies, and Solutions for Energy Harvesting / by Mehta, Shilpa, 1987-, editor 655491, Abougreen, Arij, 1989-, editor 655492, Gupta, Shashi Kant, editor 655493, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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Urban Informatics and Future Cities / by Geertman, S. C. M., editor 642892, Pettit, Christopher, editor 310233, Goodspeed, Robert, editor 642893, Staffans, Aija, editor 642894

Authenticity and place-making : a study of Clarke Quay. by Wong, Annie.

“…This study aims to demonstrate that tourists seek to experience alternative types of authenticity such as “objective”, “constructive” and “existential” authenticity during their touristic experience. …”
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Singapore-based online travel communities : an in-depth study of Sgtravelcafe by Ho, Zhi Li, Lim, Lee Choon, Lim, Rachael Song Qi, Oh, Cynthia Shih Chia

“…This study also proposes a conceptual model of tourists’ travel decision making process. Lastly, using established typologies of tourists, we seek to understand which kinds of tourists are likely to participate in online travel communities. …”
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