Promoting a country's destination is one of the major tasks of a National Tourism Organization (NTO). NTOs have many ways in which to promote their countries' tourism products, one of which is participating in tourism and travel fairs. This paper analyses the effectiveness of destination...

A key player in tourism development and promotion is the state. However, previous research has not adequately measured the effectiveness of the state's attempts to promote a country's tourism product. In this research, the authors will use an econometric model to measure the impact of the...

Previous research has not adequately measured the effectiveness of a state's promotion of its tourism product. In this research, the authors use an econometric model to measure the impact of the Croatian, Czech, and Slovak states' attempts to promote their tourism products abroad. The findings...

Romania and Bulgaria have some undeniable political and social similarities and one would also expect some similarities in their foreign policies. Both countries will soon join the EU, were governed by Communist regimes for decades, and have majority Orthodox Christian populations. In this...

The paper presents a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to an economy's growth, which is tested with data for Cyprus, Greece and Spain. We use the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregate it into economic growth generated by tourism and...

Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007 and they share many characteristics. In this work, we will investigate the placement of embassies for the two countries to determine if the placement of embassies seems to be influences by the desire to integrate into Western...

Is there a link between a state's form of political and economic organization and a state's response to tourism? In this paper, we look at three broad models for political/economic organization that states follow and then explore examples of those states and each country's response to tourism to...

The current paper presents a growth decomposition methodology which allows interindustry comparisons. The methodology is exemplified with analysis of the contribution of specific industries to economic growth in Bulgaria. However, the model presents an approach that is general and can be applied...

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach. The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction...

Purpose: Future tourism will take place in a robonomic economy (robot-based economy, robonomics). The massive introduction of robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies which will lead to the advent of an economy that will be qualitatively different from the current economy. The...