This paper underlines the linkages between women's roles, responsibilities and the use of and access to technologies in marginalised rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The ways in which poor rural women conceptualise technologies and the ways in which they use their knowledge and...

Since the early 1990s income inequality has regained a central role in the current theoretical, applied and policy debate dominating the scene in the developed, developing and transition countries. In developed countries the diminishing labour share has become one of the main concern of...

The strategies of sustainable development emphasize the interdependence between the local and the global, between the already developed countries and the ones following this course, underlining the necessity of cooperation within economical, social and environmental sections. Since the overthrow...

The modulator character of the touristic product allows for a great flexibility when constituting a personalized offer. Otherwise the assembly of the touristic product can be achieved by its consumer himself. The majority of the components of the touristic product (the touristic patrimony, the...

The main questions dedicated to the transboundary collaboration between Ukraine and Romania are observes in the article. The priorities of regional cooperation are defined and the factors of influence on the tourism development are given

This paper presents an attempt to extend the evaluation process of the structural characteristics of the Greek tourist market and their outcome, especially with regards to the pricing policy of hotel services. Under this framework, we use a combinational analysis of factors of the Theory of...

Fighting poverty is a major challenge for Albania, in which tourism can make a significant contribution. However, it is important to analyze the basic concepts behind specific policies and actions that would allow tourism to be effective, like the possibilities offered by micro-credit. In fact,...

Tourism has impacts upon a destination country. The aim of this work is to compare and contrast the alternative methodologies available for evaluating the impact of tourism. Tourism can be one of alternatives for development of a destination and sometimes the only possibility. For that reason it...

Unless the current trends in economic performance are decisively broken, it will take decades, even in the more optimistic scenarios, for Eastern European countries to reach only the mediocre level of the per capita income of more advanced Central European countries. A possible revival of...

Tourism marketing has gone through fundamental changes: the pursuit of global strategies based on strategic alliances, the breakdown of commercial borders and advances in new technology have all facilitated the commercialisation of tourism products. Challenge set by computerized...