Volunteer tourism: working on holiday or playing at work? [PDF]
The paper reviews the rapid growth of volunteer tourism, and discusses the changes that have taken place in the ethos and focus of this distinct market, the locations used as destinations and the organisations they represent. It is apparent that over the
Tomazos, Konstantinos, Butler, R.
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DEVELOPING THE NATURE-BASED TOURISM SECTOR IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to: 1) identify opportunities for expanding the tourism sector in southwestern North Dakota, 2) identify challenges and obstacles facing the area's tourism businesses, and 3) frame key issues and outline potential options ...
Hodur, Nancy M. +2 more
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GLOBALIZATION IN TOURISM SECTOR
The paper points to recent developments in the tourism sector and highlights the leading factors of the internationalization of tourists travel and of tourism services, including information technologies, as well as the internationalization of hotel and tourism enterprises. Without neglecting the huge subsector of small and medium-sized enterprises, it
Mariana LUPAN, Mykola LYAKHOVYCH
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Tourism Sector: Evidence Of Business Dynamics in Portugal * [PDF]
An in-depth understanding of the business dynamics of a given sector enables key stakeholders to define appropriate strategies for its development, promotion and consolidation.
Silva, Goretti +9 more
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Factors and Challenges Affecting the Tourism Sector: An In-Depth Analysis of Botswana’s Tourism
The main objective of this study was to conduct an in-depth analysis of Botswana’s tourism, with the hopes to identify factors and challenges affecting the tourism sector in Botswana. This study utilised the interpretivism research philosophy.
Amagolo GABASIANE, Douglas CHIGUVI
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The innovative behaviour of tourism firms [PDF]
Tourism is a growing and an extremely competitive sector. To be competitive, tourism firms need do innovate, responding to the more and more demanding tourist. Nonetheless, research on this field is limited and insufficient.
Aurora A C Teixeira +1 more
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Market structures, strategy and innovation in services A study applied to the tourism sector [PDF]
The objectives of this paper are twofold – first we discuss innovation in the service sector, especially in tourism. Secondly, we apply the diagnostic test of the integrated model of innovation (Sarkar 2005, 2007) to present the results of an empirical ...
Luisa Carvalho
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Expectation differences between the tourism sector and students: A comparative analysis
The aim of this study is to analyse the expectations of undergraduate tourism students from the sector and the expectations of tourism sector managers from students who may be potential sector employees in the future. Data were obtained from 270 students
Şengel, Ümit +6 more
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APPLYING THE STRATEGIC PLANNING APPROACH TO ANALYZE THE REALITY OF THE DOMESTIC TOURISM SECTOR IN RUSSIA IN LIGHT OF THE NEW POLICIES [PDF]
This article studied and analyzed the reality of the domestic tourism sector in Russia by using the strategic planning approach. First, the current situation of the tourism sector in Russia was studied.
Mohammad Yahya , Anna N. Polukhina
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Development of the Tourism Sector in Lithuania: a Focus on the 50+ Sector
With the looming fact of aging population, market for seniors must use adapta- tion strategies to off er products and services. Th e tourism market is not an exception in Lithuania. Th e paper aims at disclosing the SWOT analysis for potential seniors' tourism development in Lithuania. Th e authors defi ne the following tasks for research following the
Grundey, Dainora, Vilutytė, Gabrielė
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