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Onetime owner of two holiday homes in the Seychelles is in hot water for urging his compatriots to vacation at home.
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The goal of the research was to determine the level of waste management development in the tourist attractive areas of Polish poviats. The analyses were carried out on the base of CSO’s data for the year 2014. The taxonomy methods based on the concepts of Hellwig as well as Zelias-Malina were used. However; the identified correlations between synthetic measures were statistically irrelevant. It means that in the tourist attractive poviats the higher level of waste management development was not observed.
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If all goes according to plan, residents of the Czech capital might soon be surprised to enter city buses without anyone behind the wheel.
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The paper explores the reporting of social responsible activities of the hotels in Bulgaria and examines if there is a relation between the online „reported” social responsibility and the consumer assessment of the hotels in the reservation system booking.com. A модел of 5 indicators for CSR „reporting” (Holcomb, Upchurch & Okumus, 2007) is extended and implemented for the purposes of the study which is based on content-analysis of 130 hotel websites. The paper contains conclusions about the state of the CSR online “reporting” of the Bulgarian hotels and suggestions about better usage of it for hotel online marketing.
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World Tourism Organization provides guidelines for the development of tourism and presumes that those countries with highly preserved nature will be of more interest to tourists. Natural attractions include climate, flora, fauna, relief and water bodies. Herzegovina as a tourist destination is characterized by the following specific features: various types of relief, Mediterranean, continental and mountain climate, rich vegetation, abundance of rivers, lakes, springs, waterfalls, underground streams, native crops, and the beauty of the natural landscape. However, the success of promoting tourist attractions depends on the quality of communication, coordination and coherence of promotional activities at the given tourist destination and their focus on the target market, which is a major shortcoming of the tourism sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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In this study it’s analyzed how and in what way the expenditures of foreign visitors who came to Greece between 1980 and 2013 affected economic growth for Greece. For this purpose Granger Causality Test was used, the results of unit root tests such as Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and the Philips Perron (PP) were tested and because it’s a time series analysis, unit root and co - integraion tests were applied. At this point lag coefficient was obtained using by Akaike Information Criteria (AIC). Using five different criteria, it was confirmed that the best suited lag period is 2. GDP and tourism data were obtained from the World Bank Statistical Data. The result showed that there was a strong unidirectional causality from the expenditures of foreign tourists who visited Greece to the growth of Greece at 1 % level of significance.
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Botswana is known as a wilderness and safari-tourism destination,which attracts high-end overseas visitors to the country. Since the 1990s the country’stourism policy has been based on a so called ‘High Value – Low Volume’(HVLV) strategy referring to the aim of attracting limited numbers of tourists withhigh expenditure patterns. However, while such tourism operations have contributedto the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country and offered investmentopportunities for international companies, the position of Botswana as a HVLVdestination is increasingly criticised. It is seen as offering too narrow prospectsfor the growth of the industry and for the local participation and benefit sharingin tourism in future. Hence, there is a need for diversification of the product withdeeper involvement of local people to tourism. Therefore, communities and Botswana’scultural and heritage attractions are increasingly seen as one of the futurecornerstones of tourism development. This paper provides an overview of culturaltourism with specific reference to existing cultural and heritage attractions andthe potential thereof for tourism in Botswana. The paper concludes that while therole of culture is still underutilised in tourism, the cultural tourism in Botswanahas the potential to contribute to a more equitable distribution of tourism-baseddevelopment and the related benefits for local communities.
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Heritage tourism is a significant contemporary facet of tourism in manydeveloping countries. This paper analyses the economic opportunities for battlefield-heritagetourism in South Africa by examining the battlefields route withinKwaZulu-Natal. Through structured interviews with stakeholders and structuredquestionnaires with visitors and local residents, this research explores the understandingof heritage tourism as well as perceptions of its influence on the physicallandscape and gauges the importance of this form of tourism as a driver forlocal economic development in South Africa. Dundee, a small coal-mining townin KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – where several battlefields are found, is used asa case study. The study demonstrates that several issues need to be addressed ifthis niche of cultural and heritage tourism is to be a sustainable and responsibleform of tourism in South Africa
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The main objective of the paper is to present Polish eastern border problems in a particular geopolitical context including efforts such as shopping tourism, which helps overcome border problems and associated limitations. National borders serve as a factor of separation between different political and institutional systems, but on the other hand, borders can be a source of contact between different groups of people or different societies. It is important to understand the nature and various types and functions of borders and the related factors that make nearby regions special destinations for tourists. National borders may prove highly valuable to local autonomy as well as tourism planning and destination marketing organizations making border area economics less prone to recession. The paper describes the main motivations for borderland tourism – that is shopping – giving many different reasons to travel across national borders. Shopping tourism close to Poland’s eastern border is characterized via an analysis of commercial endeavors, the frequency of border crossings, as well as the structure and average costs. National border area tourism plays an important role in local economies, making them more prosperous and/or enlarging the black market zone. The European Union’s Schengen eastern border is a special example of the occurrence of these problems. This borderland faces serious economic and demographic problems due to the political function of the eastern border as a strong barrier to development. In this situation, it is important to examine relevant trends and observe if tourism is one of the ways for local area residents to deal with economic stagnation.
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This paper repeats results of the research of Delphi method organized by Jonathan Tourtelot at the end of the year 2006. Delphi method is one of the best scientific method for measuring of unmeasurable phenomena. The topic of the research was estimation of general conditions for tourism every places of UNESCO World Heritage List. This evaluation required weighing such subtle issues as aesthetics and cultural integrity as well as balancing good points against bad ones
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The aim of the paper is to evaluate the sustainability of the location of all elements of tourist infrastructure on the slopes of Babia Góra Mt. in the Western Beskidy Mountains taking into account local relief and a range of geomorphologic processes. For more than 130 years, local tourist facilities remained unthreatened by slope processes with the exception of very limited sections of the northern slope. A deep-seated landslide reactivated in the mid 19th century affected a small section of that slope that is outside of regular tourist traffic while another landslide, a shallow one that remains active, has been damaging a single marked tourist trail. Debris flows observed locally on the northern slope are not typical of contemporary relief dynamics across Babia Góra Mt. and therefore cannot be regarded as a universal threat to local tourist infrastructure. In addition, snow avalanches that reach short stretches of tourist trails on the northern slope have not damaged them. The current hazard status of the tourist infrastructure on Babia Góra Mt. is clearly better than it would have been if certain heavy development plans had been carried out in geomorphologically vulnerable areas.
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The purpose of the paper is the identification and interpretation of the dynamically developing contemporary mass event called the Cavalcade of the Three Kings (Orszak Trzech Króli). It was organised for the first time in 2009 in Warsaw. On the 6th of January 2014, about 630,000 inhabitants of 177 towns and villages, singing Christmas carols and wearing colourful crowns on their heads, publically celebrated the religious feast of Epiphany. In the author`s opinion, the cavalcades can be perceived as a new phenomenon in public spaces placed between sacralization and festivalization because they have some components of religious events and festivals but they are neither. They seem to be a new hybrid event, with religious and festive elements.
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This article treats on the problem of historical objects located in the province of Małopolska and used by universities. It features an outline of the history of the palace and the park in the village of Młoszowa near Trzebina, Duke Alexander Lubomirski Foundation Shelter – Main Building, and other components of the complex of the historical character that are currently the seat of the University of Economics in Cracow and Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University. The aim of the article is to show how these historic and ancient objects perform their modified and updated function nowadays as well as their economic and financial condition.
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Airports’ activities are influenced by seasonality of, for example, the air passenger traffic. Its share in airports functioning is largely connected with seasons. As the volume of passengers influences the level of income generated by airports, the passenger transport forecast should be seasonally-adjusted. The aim of this work is to measure, on a monthly basis, multiplicative seasonal fluctuations of the air passengers traffic at the Solidarity Szczecin- -Goleniów Airport. Also an attempt was made to prepare forecasts about a number of passengers arriving and departing from this particular airport. The research was carried out on the basis of monthly data implying the number of Polish passengers using the Szczecin-Goleniów airport between 2004 and 2014. The values of seasonal indexes were determined and, on their basis, a forecast for 2015 and 2016 was prepared. The anticipated number of passengers in 2015 was verified with the usage of tracking signals. They confirmed credibility of the acquired results.
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The aim of the study was to find answers to the question how different factors affect the sales strategy for hotels? We analyzed strategies for hotels located in Turkey, Egypt and the Canary Islands. The source of data was mainly Internet travel portal screen − HolidayCheck. The study takes into account the following factors: the size and reputation of hotels, opinions issued by the customer, period of stay of guests, additional benefits and specialist hotel infrastructure, seasons and destinations as well as family status and age of customers. The last part of the article presents the main conclusions arising from the study.
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The Province of Warmia and Mazury recognizes tourism as one of the leadingbranches of its economy and, therefore, its development is regarded as a priority.A number of activities to help in achieving this objective are undertaken and one of them was the creation of the Culinary Heritage Network of Warmia Masuria Powisle.The regional Culinary Heritage is the idea of promoting production and sale of local food. The Warmia and Mazuria Region is a member of the European Network of Culinary Heritage since 2005 and uses the logo "'Culinary Heritage of Warmia Masuria Powisle" . The network may include manufacturing companies and restaurants, as well as other ventures. For tourism and promotion of the region, gastronomical points are of crucial importance, in particular all restaurants. The purpose of this paper is to present the activities of the Network from the perspective of the restaurant associated in it. Based on the surveys, the collected data was analyzed and the evaluation of the activities of the organization in the promotion of local cuisine and catering was done, including a broader perspective of the entire region.
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Tourism, in its classical sense, is called a voyage with purpose of recreation and entertainment. It can be seen as an economic sector that serves a tourist activity. Through tourism, conditions to familiarize tourists with the culture of destinations, to enrich their knowledge and skills in certain areas – folklore, local crafts, painting, music and more – are created.
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Cultural tourism is developing as one of the most successful industries in different countries. Basis for its approval is primarily the potential of cultural heritage, which is perceived as a strategic source of overall socio-economic development of individual regions. According to international surveys culture is one of the main motivating factors for tourist trips in the world. Advertising of cultural and historical sites is the main thing that attracts attention when presenting the Bulgarian national tourist product in Germany, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Sweden. For this reason it is necessary and other marketing tools to promote the cultural and historical sites such as, public relations and event marketing, aiming to present the country as a well known and preferred year-round tourist destination with clearly recognizable national identity and culture preserved and nature, occupying a leading position among the top five destinations in Central and Eastern Europe.
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The promotion of Bulgaria on the international markets aims to create, attract and retain tourists of the respective destination. One way to achieve the aforementioned is through effective promotional strategies. The current paper emphasizes on the importance of promoting our country on the German target market. The report argues that the promotion is associated with the personification of the destination – to become recognizable, to have identity.
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