This study follows the development of the Bulgarian tourism, researches its problems and gives suggestion for improvement. The tourism in Bulgaria is one of the most developing branches during the past years. Despite of that, this research shows the existence of many problems. Mainly the...

Substantial differences have characterized modern trends on the tourist market in the period before and after 1990. There is almost no country in the world that does not reckon seriously with tourism in its economic development. The modern-day tourist is an increasingly “spoiled” consumer of...

Bölgesel kalkınmaya önemli katkısından dolayı, merkezi ve yerel yönetimler, turiz­mi geliştirici, turizmde rekabet gücünü artırıcı ve sürdürülebilir gelir sağlayıcı faaliyet­lere yönelmişlerdir. Merkezden uzakta bulunan küçük ölçekli yöresel destinasyonlar (tu­rizm...

At the competitive tourist market today (including the Kosovo) the imperative for the Country, region and tourist enterprises is to keep its market position and existing customers. Having known the fact that the tourism as branch of economy in Kosovo is in the phase of consolidation and...

The paper deals with quality management in the sector of Tourist Information Centres (TIC) in the Czech Republic and the development of the quality management systems in the sector as part of the national quality management system in tourism. Since the TICs perform a prominent role in...

We discuss who should be in charge of providing data relevant to marketing segmentation for the tourism industry. We describe the difficulties of using the most commonly found consumer behavioural models within an information system, and oppose them to a novel approach in marketing segmentation,...

In the economic sense, the term of sport product describes the sport good or service, offered to the consumer in order to satisfy his need for sport, be it spectator, viewer, active participant or sponsor. The sport product has a series of unique features that differentiate it significantly from...

Generally, researchers consider that customer satisfaction is the core driver of loyalty. However, in the case of collective hedonic services, feelings of connectedness among service users might also play an important role in forming brand loyalty. A study among visitors of a music festival...

After the communist period Romania made few steps to present itself as a tourist destination at international level after a long time. Romania has an important tourist potential due to its geographical position and its complex natural environment. This richness of potential tourist products...

Seen from the perspective of tourism potential, Cluj-Napoca, one of the main cities in Romania, taking into account several factors such as economics, education, recreational opportunities, green space, trade, healthcare and climate, has a comparative advantage because of the varied landscape...