Over the past decade, both federal and provincial Canadian governments have become actively interested and involved in manpower forecasting exercises. Initiatives by both the Economic Council of Canada and the Federal Department of Employment and Immigration were in large measure a response to...

In the following description and comparison of the nature, role, content and economic importance of industrial‐type training across a number of industrialised countries, an attempt is made to relate empirical material on industrial training available from a number of international and national...

Over the past 5–8 years most industrialised countries in Western Europe have experienced a rapid expansion of labour market regulations with a long list of new proposals awaiting legislation. In the field of education and training the rationale behind many of these anticipatory, preventive,...

Purpose – As the population of the western world is aging, the importance of seniors for the tourism economy is growing. Seniors are expected to be an important future market. Thus overall leisure behaviour in general, and travel and tourism behaviour in particular, are analysed for the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to serve as an introduction to the usefulness of means‐end chain (MEC) theory and analysis for branding in health tourism. Design/methodology/approach – An online survey was conducted within the transnational EU‐project Alpshealthcomp and with two...

The paper attempts to answer the question as to the determinants of the typical size configuration of firms in Central Europe's hospitality industry. In discussing the historically fragmented character of hospitality and tourism and the associated conduct and performance characters of this...

The paper presents important measurement approaches in the field of costumer satisfaction with services and applies those empirically for service bundles at the level of the tourism destination. After working out the most prominent characteristics of existing satisfaction concepts according to...

lm allgemeinen wirtschaftlichen Sprachgebrauch versteht man unter Innovation die Markteinführung von neuen Produktionsprozessen und/oderProdukten bzw. Dienst ‐leistungen. Wrde man sich diesem Sprachgebrauch anschliessen, so würden alle institutionell‐organisatorischen, rechtlichen oder...

First concerns over the competitiveness of major economic sectors or whole nations date back to the early eighties. To recall this was the period in which the combined effects of rapid technological changes (through the advance of micro processors) massive trade liberalization through GATT and...

Today we find ourselves throughout many regions of Europe engaged in a lively debate as to the likely employment, education and training futures of the tourism industry. This debate owes its origins to the accelerating pace of technological change and market turbulance, which seems to have...