Nowadays, tourism is a dynamic industry that implies continued challenges for the companies in the field. As the tourist experience evolves, technology develops, and the quality of life rises, tourists have more and more sophisticated and complex tastes and needs for tourism products. These new...

The concept of development has suffered major transformations in time, being not only a source of countless disputes among specialists, but also a representation of people’s level of knowledge, witnessing the passage from the satisfaction of primary needs to a focus on the principles of...

Tourism contribution, to both the Gross World Product formation and global employment level, transforms it into one of the global economy’s most important and dynamic components. Over time, technological changes have strongly influenced the development of this sector, permanently...

Throughout time practice has demonstrated that the performance and competitivity of countries in certain fields of activity is mainly generated by the countries’ ability to develop partnerships and strategic alliances based on free flow of goods, capital and people. Such a model, nevertheless...

In the context of economic crisis the main players from the industry of tourism and hospitality have to make many changes and to generate, permanently, technological innovations in terms of products, processes, knowledge, in order to become competitive and to maintain the status of...

A lot of economic activities (tourism, commerce, transport, agriculture, constructions etc.) witness a different evolution of the performance indicators throughout the year, as there are seasonal variations (oscillations) on shorter intervals of time (trimesters, months, weeks, even days). These...

Much of the technological development taking place in the travel trade and transport sectors is, surprisingly, still at the embryonic stage. The extent to which the subsectors utilize the technology will undoubtedly grow substantially in the future. This may have the effect of increasing the...

The technological changes in electronic channels, such as on-line access, will have an important impact on tourism, including marketing, consumer protection, information, education and employment. The demand for travel information is increasingly sophisticated and tourism industry employees need...