This paper analyses the Italian regional efficiency of the hospitality sector using a data envelopment analysis (DEA), for the time span 2000-2004. Via a window DEA, pure technical efficiency is computed. The Lombardy region presents the best relative performance. Overall Italian regions denote...

The present economic and financial crisis influenced considerably the tourism sector, at global level. Thus, in 2009, international tourist arrivals dropped by 4% and revenues from international tourism decreased by 6%, at global level. The governments in most of the countries with significant...

The purpose of the present paper is to evaluate the main elements transmitted through pictures used in developing Romania’s image as a touristic destination with application in developing a more coherent and unitary strategy of online promotion. We evaluated a sample of 667 pictures collected...

Within the context of the globalization of the social-economic life, tourism becomes a factor promoting a country’s national identity and its unique position within the marketplace, competing against all the other countries that are marketing their own natural and cultural strengths in an...

In Culture matter time, space, location, possibilities, needs, scarcity of goods, technologies, destination and the scope. By this article, authors begin from the hypothesis: how culture is linked to environment and ecology? As a result, keypoint ideas of the work suppose that this link...

Following passage through times of global economic crisis, also called "resource crisis", and due to the extremely advanced level of development of hotel industry globally, it is becoming appropriate and necessary to implement ecomanagement systems for the hotel business, as currently there are...

Business tourism is one of the most dynamic components of tourism activity, and enhancing international relations, especially the economic ones are reflected in the increased demand for business travel. Business tourism is a form of tourism with commercial, government or education purposes, with...

Romania's progress demands to be included the principals of sustainable development in it's development strategy. Within this framework the importance of studying and analyzing the tourism evolution can be noted. The need of knowledge regarding the fluctuations canned by the results of the...

The development of a region according to the durability principles may be accomplished both on a general and a sector level with the help of well researched strategies. Tourism is an activity based on environmental issues and the sustainable development is the only solution for its protection...

The advances in information technology have seen a radical change in the way that travel agents do business today. There are travel agents that have chosen to ignore the advances in technology; however, in the future, travel agents will have a choice of either using technology to change the way...