Tourism is a key sector for the Bulgarian economy contributing to the balance of payment, economic growth and employment rate. The efficiency of tourism sector is closely related to the structure of its management and planning. This study focuses on the evolution of tourism development in...

A proposed business model for creative tourism is analyzed in the framework of cultural tourism. Although creative tourism is generally perceived as a form of cultural tourism (Ohridska-Olson 2010), it is essentially different from the mainstream cultural tourism. In addition, the paper analyzes...

The authors explore the likely trajectories of the tourism industry in the next 20-50 years. To do so, the authors explore the general economic, social, and political conditions the global population will face. Many of the important questions of the future of tourism deals with the issue of...

The paper presents an overview of non-observed economic activities in tourism and the methodologies to measure them. Non-observed economic activities are divided into informal economy in tourism, own productions of tourist goods and services for own final consumption by the households, hidden...

This viewpoint discusses the impacts of automation technologies on tourism and hospitality jobs by delving into the mechanisms through which automation eliminates, transforms, and creates job positions in the industry. It elaborates on the tourism and hospitality jobs of the future, the skills...

The technological advances in artificial intelligence and robotics allow the massive introduction of service robots by travel, tourism and hospitality companies. While research on service robots in tourism is gaining momentum, the economic aspects of robots' adoption have been quite neglected....

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...

Travel, tourism and hospitality companies have started to adopt robots, artificial intelligence and service automation (RAISA) in the form of chatbots, delivery robots, robot-concierge, conveyor restaurants, self-service information/check-in/check-out kiosks, and many others. Despite the huge...

In the last 20 years, the tourism industry has witnessed the proliferation of many ecolabels with different scopes and criteria and sometimes with a limited area of recognition, which has caused confusion among guests. In order to offer a tool useful for consumers and recognised all over Europe,...