The number of tourists visiting tourism destinations during religious festivities have been steadily increasing over the years. They are very important for destinations managers' officers (DMOs) in many places developing aggressive marketing and management strategies targeting religious...

For decades, tourism has experienced steady growth and has strengthened its role in the economy, turning into a real industry that generates annual revenues exceeding 1.3 billion $ and created more than 260 million employments. With such performance, there is a pressing need to turn our...

Having more reliable statistics is essential for policy-makers to be able to make effective decisions. Nevertheless, measuring the number of tourists in a given destination is not an easy task. After reviewing the main problems affecting official statistics on tourism, this paper proposes a...

The article is focused on destination management – a specific form of tourism management that has a potential to assure an effective development of tourism. The article explains theoretical background of destination management and highlights its importance from the tourism regional policy...

It is well known that the organizational structure of the Slovenian tourism industry is changing. Tourist companies are merging, but unfortunately only a few companies empowered their capital structure and market position, so in a way we can talk about an oligopoly. The situation does not favor...

Bucovina is an important destination within Romania, in the North-East of the country. Since years, the core motivation for travelling to Bucovina was culture and nature. In the last period of time was a pressure for a continue development of tourism within the region. The government and tourism...

Destination management is a key issue of all overall model of destinations’ competitiveness, and seems to be a „panacea” in those countries, which introduces the tool-system in the near past, so as to support the small enterprises of destinations to keep up with keen competition (e.g. in...

La crescente ricerca di esperienze autentiche, personalizzate e partecipative da parte del turista postmoderno induce gli enti territoriali, le imprese turistiche e le istituzioni culturali a cercare nuovi modi per mantenere alta la competitività dei prodotti turistici e delle destinazioni...

For a healthy development of tourism and all activities in the frame of this industry in the region it is necessary to harmonize the incomes and all effects of this branch with the quality of life of the local people and the aspects of environment protection. The guests require a certain level...

Tourism development has environmental and social consequences upon local and global communities. The impact of tourism must be kept within certain limits which are set up by sustainable tourism. Meanwhile the viability of the investment must be assured. Tourism development matrix is the tourist...