Religious pilgrimages have a real history as economic generators for the visited areas and the elements of supply involved. Romanian monasteries are experiencing some continuous and constant flows of pilgrims, but, at the same time, they also turned into attractions for mass tourism. The aim of...

Cette recherche vise à mieux comprendre la performance de l’entreprise liée à Internet en s’appuyant sur le modèle de l’alignement stratégique. A travers une approche contingente, le modèle conceptuel proposé met en avant la cohérence entre l’utilisation d’Internet,...

Current economic developments, marked by recession of recent years have led directly to the emergence of some social issues with major implications on the world tourism. As a niche segment of the tourism industry, dental tourism is a relatively new phenomenon. The paper based on the study and...

The investments in tourism concern mainly the qualitative structure of touristic service, with mainly material character, objectively assessable, and less the qualitative conduct part. However, most important for providing high quality services in tourism is the information, good practice in the...

Nel caso del turismo la qualità non rappresenta solamente un elemento costituente dell’offerta di prodotto o del sistema di produzione ma assume una forte valenza commerciale, permettendo di completare e rafforzare la strategia di marketing dell’impresa In the case of tourism, quality is...

Adapting to new cultures and understanding them differ in each individual. This difference is based on different personality traits. Personality traits affect success in communicating, active behaviours, relationship structures and the capability to perform. Cultural Intelligence is, in broad...

This paper analyzes idea work in haute cuisine through three case studies. Mobilizing Bourdieu’s praxeology, we consider idea work as a practice, an activity that takes sense and meaning in the social world. Thus, idea work reflects the position of the agent in the field and the struggles to...

Within a practice-based approach of organizations, we explore the knowing integration phenomena at the roots of competitive advantage. While former knowing integration studies have pointed to the importance of boundary objects across occupational communities, knowing integration inside a...

The development of service sector – as a defining trait of modern market economy – demands permanent improvement of theory and applications in the domain of quality. Following this statement one can notice a considerable evolution of the advanced approach associated to the concept of quality...