The economic theory apprehends that the modern socio-cultural model, specific to the industrial society, has generated a global crisis of the development, with multiple manifestations. The alternative it is represented by knowledge society. Without to become an engine of social development, we...

The present article focuses on the effective application of the Institutional Theory as a theoretical perspective in scientific studies. The particular goal is to present a literature review about the Institutional Theory applied to the tourism industry, particularly the wine tourism segment....

This article focuses on the study of the main factors attracting visitors, not only new ones, to wineries, and also on how to keep these customers loyal. This research fills a gap in wine tourism literature, taking into account the differences between brand image and destination image as...

Tourism has known along its development multiple types and forms. Their appearance was influenced by the existence of natural and anthropic tourist resources and by the potential tourists'motivation. Wine, considered the Gods'liquor, has its story, and through wine tourism people can know it....

Article aims the approach of a new concept developed on the tourism and wine market, named wine tourism and the defining of a wine tourism offer developed increasingly more so at European level especially in the countries of the Southern hemisphere (South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Australia...

Wine-tourism is an important resource of income when it comes to organized wine producing countries. Wine-tourism in Greece emerged and developed only during the last twenty years and it’s far from being a well-organized industry.The foundation of the “Wine producers’ Association of the...

Walla Walla enjoys the fastest growing wine industry in the State of Washington, if not in the whole U.S. This paper examines the impact of this extraordinary growth on the revenue of regional hotels and restaurants. Employing a dynamic quarterly panel model at the county level we show that the...

Internet is in wine tourism sector, as in all other types of hospitality has changed the classic ways of doing business , and is used as a communication, transaction and distribution channel. Precisely because of the dependence of supply and information exchange in the production and...

Typical products are considered suitable features to characterise the tourist supply of a destination. Their exploitation can contribute both to develop and to create the tourist market, enriching a tourist package or specializing a specific segment. Many typical products are simultaneously an...

In recent times, the search for a new relationship with nature, of quality and safety of foodstuffs and in particular the need for “identity”, of characterizing places as bearers of values and traditions have led an increasing number of people to see rural areas as places of values,...