Tourism is a key sector for the Bulgarian economy contributing to the balance of payment, economic growth and employment rate. The efficiency of tourism sector is closely related to the structure of its management and planning. This study focuses on the evolution of tourism development in...

A proposed business model for creative tourism is analyzed in the framework of cultural tourism. Although creative tourism is generally perceived as a form of cultural tourism (Ohridska-Olson 2010), it is essentially different from the mainstream cultural tourism. In addition, the paper analyzes...

The paper presents a critical literature review of the main concepts of hotel revenue management (RM) and current state of theoretical research. It emphasizes on the different directions of hotel RM research and focuses comprehensively on the elements of the hotel RM system and the stages of RM...

The article discusses the visibility of academic journals as part of their marketing. The conceptual framework of the visibility includes journal prerequisites and specific activities undertaken by the editor, editorial board members and the publisher. Journal prerequisites include journal...

In this paper, the authors write about what the future of tourism after the fall of the American Empire. The authors describe the forces at work undermining the American empire and explain its likely trajectory. Then, the authors turn to the implications of this political event for tourism...

The paper presents the results of a study of the image of Bulgaria as a tourist destination among a group of German students visiting Bulgaria for a first time. Similarly to Ivanov and Illum (2010) the paper adopts the Lederer and Hill (2001) and Silver and Hill (2002) molecular approach to...

The paper reviews the various methods and tourism development proxy variables used to measure the impact of tourism on economic growth. The growth decomposition methodology is employed with data for 174 countries for the years 2000-2010 to measure the impact of tourism on a country-by-country...

Статията разглежда ценовата дискриминация като инструмент за управление на приходите в хотелиерството. Обръща се внимание на ценовата еластичност, ценовите...

The paper develops a mathematical model for optimal overbooking limits for a 3-room type hotel. We assume that the hotel has low, medium and high priced rooms and upgrades and downgrades are possible but with one step only, i.e. low priced rooms can be upgraded only to medium priced ones, high...

Despite the huge research in field of hotel chains, a general conceptual model of a hotel chain does not exist yet. Therefore, the paper aims at filling this gap by analyzing the nature of hotel chains from three different perspectives (resource-based view, value chain and stakeholder network...