According to the specific nature of tourism products and services, the marketing of destinations includes many features which are not shown in the company marketing in another industry. In contrast to physical products, a service product cannot be tested before it is purchased due to...

The purpose of this study is to identify best practices that can help the Cuban tourism industry in implementing a comprehensive sustainable tourism strategy. The study addresses the important research problem of how to improve sustainable tourism development in a specific country. The objective...

Tourismis increasingly being recognized as an essential component of economic growth in South Africa. The purpose of this study is to examine cointegration and causal effects between tourism and economic growth in South Africa for annual data collected between 1995 and 2014. To this end, the...

This paper presents an overview of issues related to the role of human resources in creating innovation in tourism businesses. The main purpose is to identify the level of utilization of personnel in innovative activities of the researched tourism entities. It attempts to verify the research...

This article introduces ‘Granger Causality in Tourism Analysis for Slovenia andMontenegro.’ Included within are comparisons of the tourism ledgrowth in these countries between December 2007–June 2015. The focus of the analysis is directed towards gross domestic product and tourist arrivals...

Entrepreneurial characteristics and organisational culture have an impact on the innovative capability of a company. Therefore, our research tries to examine the influence of different individual entrepreneurial characteristics and organisational culture dimensions on corporate innovativeness...

An understanding of expenditure patterns is vital to travel organizers and destination marketers. Using surveys conducted by the Barcelona Tourism Board (Turisme de Barcelona), this study profiled the trip by purpose: leisure or business, and investigated the relationships between travel...

Cruise tourism generates different types of cruise consumption and related indirect, direct and induced expenditure effects, in homeports as well as in ports of call. Cruise passengers’ expenditures produce positive economic effects for destinations, from increasing the incomes and employment,...