In an increasingly dynamic market, with complex consumer behavior and product attributes, the fundamental task for destination management is understanding what are the new tourism developments and trends, the new techniques and approaches required to handle them effectively, the new business...

Globalization of the world economy is a key driver of air traffic growth. Cross-investment between European countries, as well as to and from the USA, Far East and the rest of the world is increasingly a feature of modern business, with mobility of labor as a growing factor. The most important...

European economies are undergoing dramatic changes, determined by the rise in knowledge-intensity of economic activities, as an effect of the escalating pace of technological change, on one hand, and by the increasing globalization of economic affairs, driven by markets liberalization, on the...

International competitiveness receives much attention nowadays, but until recently its assessment has been heavily based on goods trade statistics. This paper addresses the need for competitiveness indicators that cover services trade and sets out initial proposals for developing a multilevel...

Although oil prices rose rapidly in the last years and continued into 2006, a UNWTO study concluded that the impact on tourism was limited. Firstly, when the increase is analyzed in light of previous oil crises in constant US dollars or constant euros, it suggests that oil prices are catching up...

Improved access to information, made easier by the continuous development of technologies and networks, will be a key feature of future society. Its application to support decision-making by organizations, enterprises or individuals, will facilitate better and, eventually, more innovative...

The objective of this research is assessing the creative industries’ positioning in Romania, regarding the other EU member states. The methodology proposed by Florida and Tinagli (2004) for computing the Euro-Creativity Index is being extended, both by adding new indexes we consider more...