Tourism destination organizations and individual businesses often find themselves making decisions concerning the development and distribution of their products, without having a full understanding of how the channel operators perceive and react to these strategic actions. If the proper...

The hotel services are a part from the tourism services, or can be defined as an independent offer. In the second place, the most important thing is the need of accommodation (probably also food and other additional services – conference room, recreational facilities, etc.) from those that are...

This study examines the willingness-to-pay (WTP) and the willingness-to-work (WTW) of German riding club members for an overall quality improvement. Therefore, German riding club members were asked via an online questionnaire. As far as the author knows, this study is the first to include the...

With the increasing demands of consumers and their selectivity for choosing the services, hotel organizations are becoming more and more concerned about mantaining the customer’s loyalty through its term. In this respect, the organizations are dropping their efforts on meeting comprehensive...

The present article was written in order to provide a framework that can boost the sustainable development of rural tourism in mountain area. It is already known that –in terms of natural heritage- Romania has the necessary resources that can meet the demands of mountain tourism development,...

Today the tourism is the fastest growing industry in the whole world. In comparison with other countries that have been taking advantage of these phenomena of travelling, Romania is lagging behind in terms of tourist arrivals. To capitalize our potential tourist destinations, the Romanian...

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...

Models incorporating more realistic models of customer behavior, as customers choosing from an offer set, have recently become popular in assortment optimization and revenue management. The dynamic program for these models is intractable and approximated by a deterministic linear program called...

This paper starts by clarifying the role of branding orientation (BO) among academic studies. It shortly introduces the development of the BO concepts. The empirical part consists of a search for and analysing of academic articles using a meta-analysis that consider BO in the accommodation...

Universities spend almost $2 billion subsidizing their collegiate sports programs. Even the mostpopular women’s sport, basketball, fails to break even. An application of Becker’s theory ofcustomer discrimination is used to calculate the relative preference for men’s basketball for bothmen...