The paper presents the results of a study of the image of Bulgaria as a tourist destination among a group of German students visiting Bulgaria for a first time. Similarly to Ivanov and Illum (2010) the paper adopts the Lederer and Hill (2001) and Silver and Hill (2002) molecular approach to...

The paper evaluates the determinants of tourist expenditures and the relationship between the tourists' repeat visit to a destination and their spending. The sample includes 9318 respondents from 29 tours in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil). Cross-section multiple regression analysis using the...

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....