At the beginning of the 21st century, events tourism witnessed an impressive development in a series of countries due to the increase of the spare time and of the people’s income, to the cheaper and more diversified world transport, especially the air transport and due to the emergence of new...

The evolution of special events into a free-standing industry is a debatable statement in the academic field literature. From this perspective, the article tries to offer legitimacy to special events industry concept through its framing and argumentative explanation in the economic theoretical...

The purpose of research presented in this paper is to determine how selected characteristics of a city event affect the satisfaction of visitors. In particular, the aim is to identify factors related to event atmospherics that determine visitor satisfaction in the city destination in continental...

Travel agencies are the main actors of the tourism industry. Many touristic customers are involved in tourism activities benefiting from the services provided by the travel agencies. Travel agencies play an important role in advising them to make decisions and agencies also are being an...

Tourism and hotel business is becoming one of the leading industries of the world. Therefore, an increased attention needs to be paid to the study of trends in tourism because they determine the trends in hotel industry. The purpose of the paper is to point out the importance of hotel industry...

The competition growth constitutes, at the organizations level, one of the major preoccupations for the present context of the social-economic changes. The effects of the globalisation process have been also noticed at tourism industry level, fact which had generated a series of changes both in...

Tourism seasonality is the major characteristic of tourism industry, a well know but less understood phenomenon. Seasonal fluctuations of tourism demand are implying numerous negative implications affecting tourist destination, tourist operators and tourist demand. Almost every tourist...

The tourism in Macedonia according to relevant statistical indicators still is or is longer on low (unsatisfactory) level, which is expressed both by the number of tourists visiting the country and by the number of realized overnights by tourists. Another feature of tourism in Macedonia is its...

In recent decades, a significant number of developing countries have implemented fiscal incentives programs for the tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local investment and employment, as tourism activities are...