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Diversification of the tourism industry, a comprehensive study of the tourist potential of certain geographical areas, the identification of periodic (seasonal) aspects, encourages the systematization of tourist types. Geography is a branch of science that studies the above features. Geographical tourism allows for the systematic development of its new species in order to comprehensively cover the tourist potential of a particular region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mount Kumgang, located in the middle of the eastern coastal area of the Korean Peninsula, has been a cultural symbol of this region historically. It stretches across two countries, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK). The former enjoys two thirds of the total area and rich natural landscape and cultural relics, which is now known as the Mount Kumgang International Tourist Zone. The design responds to the bond of both DPRK and ROK people through design approaches while celebrating the rich natural and cultural resources of Mount Kumgang. By building a tourist zone planning system based on a visual network, the design would improve the sight-seeing system for the both sides of Mount Kumgang and provide references for the local government on the future development of the area. However, when faced with challenges such as the inadequacy of literature, missing data, and difficulties in field survey, the author explored into the Korean culture and studied the blue-and-green-color landscape painting and line drawing techniques from the famous Korean painting Geumgang Jeondo and the "Panorama Map of Diamond Mountain" (1939), combining with computer-generated graphics in the design drawing. Meanwhile, to help audience better read the site and design concepts and strategies, two types of material models were also introduced. Finally, the suitable design strategies and deliberated representation together provide thoughts for the development and construction to Mount Kumgang in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The survey includes a study of destination planning and development at a local level through micro-regionalization. The subject of this work is the study, analysis and definition of opportunities for sustainable tourism development at a local level as a model that can be multiplied to be used in other developing tourist destinations. The objective of the study is the sustainable development of tourism in the municipality of Botevgrad and its positioning as an attractive tourist destination. To achieve the research goal, a set of general and private methods corresponding to the interdisciplinary and heterogeneous nature of the study are used: methods of analysis and synthesis, cameral method, cartographic method, geographic methods of research: spatial analysis of the resource potential, localization of the surveyed sites. An approach of studies and systematization of information on literary sources and planning documents has also been used; collecting, processing, systematizing and interpreting statistical data and documents; critical analysis method and expert assessment; comparative analysis method; scientific analysis and synthesis; field observation. The main conclusions point the opportunities for destination management at a local level through micro-regionalisation as a successful model for sustainable tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the expansion of the concept of "home" as a consequence of modern, long-range tourism. The material consists of fifteen blogs written by young Swedish travelers who have visited some of the most popular tourist destinations in Thailand for a shorter period of time. The blogs construct a sort of familiarization of contexts situated far away from Sweden which incorporates them with the idea of "home". The communication in the blog shows that journeys do not go to Thailand itself, understand as a specific and non-Swedish historical, economic and social context about which the blogs has close to nothing to say. Instead the blogs are exclusively focused on the "tourist zone" in Thailand. The tourist zone is a context constructed only to meet the tourist's demand for leisure, relaxation and hedonism. It is therefore a generalized zone that could be found on many places outside Thailand. Familiarity, and the ongoing process of education to familiarity, with the tourist zone in Thailand appears as a training in Sweden normality. In that sense Thailand, or rather a very peculiar version of Thailand, could be said to be incorporated with everyday life in Sweden. The theoretical sources of the article are of postcolonial and critical tourism research origin.

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