Effects of tourism seasonality at local level

Author(s): Biljana Petrevska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The paper underlines the importance of identifying seasonality effects over tourism development. The study applies a simple test for examining the presence of seasonality in tourism demand in the line of exploring its concentration and strength at local level. The investigation is covered by calculating some commonly applied indicators for measuring tourism seasonality, like Gini coefficient, Seasonality Indicator and Coefficient of Variation. The data set addresses the total tourist arrivals between 2000-2013 and elaborates the case of Ohrid, as the most famous tourist destination in Macedonia. The research results point to high level of tourism seasonality with significant flow distribution to tourism development. Finally, the study may serve as a base for identifying measures and activities necessary for creating comprehensive local and regional tourism policy.

The identification of economic phenomena trends at regional level

Author(s): Tudorel Andrei,Andreea Iluzia Iacob,Claudiu Herţeliu / Language(s): English Issue: Spec/2011

Romania's economic development requires the reconsideration of certain policies at the development regions level. Currently, there are large gaps between Romanian development regions. Moreover, certain socio-economic development regions are among the poorest from the EU. In the national statistics were recorded important data sets to characterize the economic and social phenomena at the development regions level. For their exploitation can be used panel data methods. The creation of certain coherent economic and social policies at the development regions level represents an immediate requirement for the reduction of the disparities between Romania and the EU average level.

„Подаръкът“: изложба на Регионалния исторически музей – София

Author(s): Hristina Grozdanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

Public Memory, Digital Media, and Prison Narratives at Robben Island

Author(s): Rulon Wood,Julia Berger,Marouf Hasian / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2017

In this article, the authors analyze face-to-face and interactive tours of Robben Island, South Africa. Using ethnographic and rhetorical research methods, they consider the ways in which the Island employs themes of triumph over oppression as a form of nation building. In addition, they consider the ways in which museum narratives may limit how visitors think about social justice in contemporary South Africa.

Chorwacja we współczesnych stosunkach międzynarodowych z państwami Korytarza Środkowoeuropejskiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Łakota-Micker / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2014

The article Croatia in modern international relations with the states of Central European Transport Corridor discusses one of the most crucial events through which the Croatia has participated actively for few years. The initiative of creating the Central European Transport Corridor CETC-ROUTE 65 came into being from the need for close cooperation between the local self-governments of the European states. According to its assumption, the setting up of the developing zone CETC-ROUTE 65 is to influence the competitiveness of the regions located within its area, strengthening the areas that are underdeveloped structurally, inter alia decreasing the unemployment rate, developing the tourism and local economies. The agreement, that initially included two regions, has gained a lot of interest for the past few years. In April 2004, the Inter-Regional Agreement aiming at creating the Central European Transport Corridor was signed, within the framework of which the cooperation of 17 regions and districts in 6 countries has been being developed: in Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary and Croatia. The Republic of Croatia is a great modern example of a state that is able to compete with other in the broad sense western countries. The political, economic, and military transformations that have occurred over the past few years, place the country at the equal level with others. Thus ceasing the negative associations that the states of former Yugoslavia and Zagreb have been perceived with for the past twenty years.

Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-Turn Down the Noise, Bulgarian Pol Tells Tourists

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 08/22/2017

‘Europe’s cheapest resort’ gets a tongue-lashing from a politician not exactly famed for his tolerance.

Karadeniz Bölgesindeki Bizans Eserleri

Author(s): Sevcan Yildiz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 53/2017

The Byzantine Empire is one of the longest-lived states in world history and is considered to have been formed by the division of the Byzantine Empire into the Roman Empire. During the years he ruled, he left his own architectural monuments, and with the spread of Christianity, he found great monuments, especially in church architecture. Today, the churches built at that time are regarded as pilgrimage centers of Christians. The Sumela Monastery of the Black Sea Region of Trabzon is also the most important of the pilgrimage centers. The Black Sea Region is one of the well-preserved regions of Anatolia in terms of Byzantine monuments. The reason why the Black Sea Region is preferred in the study is that the monuments in the region are preserved and some of them are still standing. The historical process of the Byzantine monuments in the Black Sea Region has been examined in the study. The study covers ancient cities and churches built during Byzantine rule in Bartın, Zonguldak, Ordu, Trabzon, Rize and Amasya.

Baštinski sadržaji u životu lokalne zajednice, kulturnom i edukacijskom turizmu Vrbnika na otoku Krku

Author(s): Ivana Vladilo / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 09/2017

The name of Vrbnik was written for the first time in the grant of Dragoslav, a Glagolitic document from the year 1100. However, archaeological remains confirm that the ancient Vrbnik is even older. People already lived there in the Neolithic period, and traces in the area are left by the Illyrian tribes of Japodes and Liburni as well as Greeks and Romans. The whole town centre is a historical and cultural monument today. The backbone of the cultural life of the local community and the tourism offer of the actual cultural tourism, is the library of family Vitezić, with a replica of the Gutenberg printing press as well as ethnological collection, located in the former Rector's Palace. There is also other cultural immovable material heritage like Vrbnik circle dance, first ever known Glagolitic matrix, Glagolitic inscriptions, religious museum in Desetinac, city gates Dverčića, Klančić - the narrowest street in the world, the Frankopan walls ... This paper summarizes the history of the Library, its foundation and meaning in the life of the local community through historical changes. It shows activities to preserve the original library collection in particular between 2011. and 2012. At that time the e-catalogue was made and the whole collection became publicly visible and accessible for search. The most famous copy of Koehler's Atlas, was digitalized as well. This paper presents the activities of the Library and other heritage activities in cultural tourism offer that tries to revive cultural events all year round through educational and sightseeing tourism. It makes Vrbnik one of the most visited places in Croatia, as well as the daily life of the local community which deeply feels its cultural roots.

Wyniki finansowe spółek giełdowych na rynku usług turystyczno-wypoczynkowych oraz hotelowych w poszczególnych segmentach działalności

Author(s): Agnieszka Maciąg / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

Aim of the article: the study is focused on an analysis of financial performance of the three major companies from the tourist, leisure and hotel industry listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Discussing the issues, the author paid attention to financial condition of the firms in individual segments of activity. Methodology: the source basis was financial statements of the stock exchange companies in question. The analysis comprised three companies from the hotel industry: Interferie SA, Orbis SA and Rainbow Tours SA. The findings were analysed taking into account sales of services in individual branch segments in the years 2009-2013. Findings: all the companies surveyed improved in the years in question their financial standing in individual segments of activity. The companies from the hotel industry such as Interferie and Orbis focused primarily on winning the national customer, sales of services in the domestic market constituted most their revenues. In the case of the Rainbow Tours Group, improvement of financial condition was determined by growth of sales of tourist events (the basic segment of activity) by the parent company. Results of the analysis indicate a great consolidation of the market in basic segments of activities carried out by the companies. Practical and social implications: the practical purpose of the financial analysis in the given market for services is to evaluate and shape the future, development and possibilities to survive by enterprises. It enables assessment of goodwill of the firm and its position in the market.

Środowiskowe uwarunkowania zarządzania rozwojem turystyki zrównoważonej w wybranych gminach w latach 1996-2011

Author(s): Jerzy Wojtatowicz,Kazimierz Dyguś,Jan Cetner / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6A/2013

The aim of the present study is to show changes of the potential of ecotourism for 17 selected municipalities in the past 15 years, i.e. in the years 1996-2011. In order to assess the environmental conditions for the development of tourism in various districts there were taken into account seven basic characteristics of each area: 1) the overall environmental burden by rural residents, 2) forest cover, 3) diversity of the forms of land use, 4) type and area of the protected areas, 5) aerial load area of raw sewage, 6) environmental burden of undeveloped waste, 7) the state of the atmosphere in the area. To calculate the potential value 21 variables must be entered into the model whose values are taken from the Local Data Bank of Polish CSO and estimates provided by EMEP. The analysis allows achieving environmental assessment conditions for sustainable tourism development on a scale of 0 to 10, and information on changes in the ratings during the period, which allowed the formulation of qualitative predictions for the coming year for every municipality. The data should be used by local authorities at municipal and county planning activities to protect the environment and promote entrepreneurship in the field of tourism. They are also a valuable clue for potential investors of the tourism industry.

NOVOOTKRIVENI STEĆCI U NASELJU ORAŠ PLANJE KOD TEŠNJA

Author(s): Ago Mujkanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 7/2014

Srednjovjekovno naslijeđe tešanjskog kraja, stećci, kamenovi, mramori, naselja i drugi materijalni ostaci gotovosu neistraženi. Nasljeđe je samo djelimično evidentirano u arheološkoj, a manje u drugoj naučnoj i stručnoj literaturi. Do sada nije bilo većih pokušaja naučnog vrednovanja nasljeđa tešanjskog kraja, niti njegovog turističkog vrednovanja i prezentovanja široj javnosti. Danas je većina stećaka izložena propadanju, a sve češće i nesavjesnom postupanju, pa čak i namjernom uništavanju, kao i svojatanju od strane pojedinaca ili grupa. Cilj rada je prezentovanje novootkrivene nekropole stećaka u naselju Oraš Planje koje je do sada u literaturi malo poznato po srednjovjekovnom nasljeđu, s osvrtom na smjernice za zaštitu stećaka. Izrada rada sastojala se od terenskih istraživanja, analize pisanih izvora i stručne literature. Kao rezultat autorovog istraživanja evidentirano je 46 novih stećaka kao i arheološki nalaz – alatka čiju tačnu namjenu još nismo uspjeli utvrditi. Ovo nasljeđe je potrebno zaštititi pravno i tehnički, a potrebno je podići i javnu svijest o njegovom značaju. Na osnovu dosadašnjih istraživanja ustanovili smo da je tešanjski kraj izuzetno bogat nasljeđem iz perioda srednjovjekovne bosanske države. Potrebno je nastaviti s istraživanjem te baštine, pojačati mjere zaštite od lokalnog prema višim nivoima vlasti, ali i prezentovanjem nasljeđa široj javnosti kroz turističku ponudu općine Tešanj.

Müşteri Memnuniyetini Oluşturan Faktörlerin Müşteri Sadakatine Etkisinin Lojistik Regresyon Analizi İle İncelenmesi

Author(s): Ilgın CENGİZ MUTLUBAŞ,Hasan Hüseyin Soybalı / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2017

The aim of this research is to determine the effects of the factors, which form the satisfaction level of customers staying in five-star thermal hotels in İzmir and Afyonkarahisar, on loyalty by employing logistic regression analysis. Within this scope, 423 customers in five-star thermal hotels in İzmir and Afyonkarahisar were surveyed to obtain the data. The results of the data analysis show that there is a positive relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. According to the results of the logistic regression analysis, it is found that the loyalty behaviors of satisfied customers compared to unsatisfied customers is 3,5 times in housekeeping services, 6,7 times in food and beverage services and 3,4 times in overall service evaluation greater.

Lisans Düzeyinde Turizm Eğitimi Alan Öğrencilerin Üniversite Tercihlerini Etkileyen Nedenler: İstanbul Vakıf Üniversiteleri Örneği

Author(s): Burhanettin Zengin,İsmail Uzut / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2017

In education, school and department preferences are known as an extremely important factor in shaping people's future. Tourism education evaluates within this scope and it is accepted as an element that provides positive contributions to the increase of tourism incomes. Besides this it is also accepted tourism education has positive effect of increasing the satisfaction level of tourists participating in tourism to Turkey. In this context, it is possible to say that the desire to get vocational education at the undergraduate level in tourism is normal while university preferences are made. In this study, it was aimed to determine the factors affecting the reasons of university preference of the students who have undergraduate education in the field of tourism in foundation universities in Istanbul. In order to obtain data in this study which is designed as a quantitative research, a questionnaire was applied to 259 students of nearly 1.000 students who are studying at 9 foundation universities, which provide undergraduate tourism education in Istanbul. The findings were analyzed by factor analysis, t-test and Anova tests. As a result of the study, the reasons for preferring the foundation universities in Istanbul are: respectability, information and employment, campus facilities, location, economy and economic support elements.

Yoksul Yanlı Turizm Yaklaşımı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Author(s): Ayşe Nevin Sert,Serap SERİN KARACAER,Yüksel Öztürk / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2017

While poverty is one of the most important problems in the twenty-first century, tourism is one of the most prominent dynamics of socio-economic dimension of this century. Therefore, given the economic strength of the sector, tourism is seen as an important actor for poverty alleviation by international organizations, especially for underdeveloped and developing countries. Therefore, towards the end of the 1990s, the "Pro-poor Tourism" approach emerged that draws attention to the potential to reduce poverty in tourism. "Pro-poor Tourism" which provides net benefits for the poor, is not a product or sector but an approach. The benefits provided by "Pro-poor Tourism" can be economic as well as social, cultural and environmental. The main point of "Pro-poor Tourism" approach is the creation and offering the opportunities for the poor in tourism, rather than expanding the overall dimension of the tourism sector. In other words, "Pro-poor Tourism" is based on the understanding of sharing out the sector cake instead of enlarging it. In this context, "Pro-poor Tourism is based on the changing the way of tourism benefits distribution for the poor sake. Within the scope of the study, qualitative research method was applied and source and document examination were carried out. In the study, the terms of the definition, qualities and features of the poor side tourism approach which is primarily a new concept in the tourism literature was examined. Afterwards, the effects of tourism sector on poverty have been examined; it is found out that tourism activities have been effective in reducing poverty in three ways, direct, indirect and dynamic.

Hüzün Turizmi Üzerine Bir Derleme

Author(s): Ahmet ÇELİK / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2017

Special interest tours that change day by day, mass tourism areas, reducing the effects of the physical and cultural, new attractions and a more sustainable tourism objective. Sadness, pain, sorrow, sadness for the past in people, sadness, empathy, sympathy, fear, hatred and revenge as an alternative tourism with inner feelings directed movement. Starting in the last decade as general academic studies of tourism destination marketing sadness of being addressed. It is not just death in terms of tourism, culture and social examination as required. In this study, the national compilation of studies contained in publications, sought solutions to the problems about the nomenclature. In addition, paper is being carried out until it has been reviewed and determined and potential brought together the regions, only the literature study aims to gain.

Kayseri İlinin Gastronomi Turizmine Yönelik Bir SWOT Analizi Çalışması

Author(s): Taşkın Deniz,Emel Atişman / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2017

Kayseri province with its historical, cultural and natural beauties has a tourism potential. Kayseri, a settlement with thousands of years of history, is at literally a culture cradle because of hosting of many cultures with different characteristics. Kayseri's such a cultural richness shows itself in Kayseri’s cuisine and traditional delicacies. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the Kayseri cuisine for the potential of gastronomic tourism. In this direction, firstly literature search was performed, then SWOT analysis of Kayseri province and evaluation of Kayseri cuisine in terms of gastronomy products was made. After the data was evaluated, opinions about the potential of gastronomy tourism in Kayseri province were revealed. According to result, it is found that Kayseri should increases the share of gastronomy tourism in order to gain competitive advantage, to became brand and to contribute local economy.

Bitlis İlinin Kalkınmasında Turizmin Rolünün Yerel Halkın Demografik Özelliklerine Göre Değerlendirilmesi

Author(s): Ümit Şengel,Burhanettin Zengin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2017

Tourism has been causing important effects on communities. These effects can be economic, social cultural or environmental. Tourism social effects can both be negative and positive. All these effects come up with an important role which leads the countries, cities and regions to ongoing developments. Such effects can only be ensured via improving tourism industry. In order to extend the tourism in a particular region, the shareholders whom gain favour through tourism of the area, are expected to be supportive to the tourism activities of the region. In this aspect, the shareholders aware of the effects of tourism over the regional development are more likely to support tourism compared to others. All these given reasons show how important is the studies related to the role of stakeholders in a tourism derived regional development. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the demographic attributes of the local stakeholders and dig out if these attributes have any effects on the role of tourism over the development of Bitlis Province. The findings have been reached through quantitive research method via survey forms. According to the analyse results, the effects of tourism on regional development of Bitlis province has shown some changes link up with some demographic attributes of locals.

Konaklama İşletmelerinde Yeşil Pazarlama Uygulamaları: Doğa Residence Otel Örneği

Author(s): Ayşe Nevin Sert / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2017

Environmental degradation in the world is increasing day by day. As a result, there is an increasing tendency for environmentally friendly practices to minimize the impact of environmental problems. As the environment is a crucial factor in in the tourism sector environment friendly applications are great importance. One of these applications is “Green Marketing”. The aim of this study is to examine the green marketing practices in the hospitality companies in the case of Doğa Residence hotels and to present the benefits that these applications provide. Green marketing applications of Doğa Residence Hotels have been analysed as a case. The questionnaire formulated for this purpose was applied to the managers of Doğa Residence Hotel and the observations and documents were utilized. In the direction of the obtained data, it has been seen that green practices have reduced the expenses of the hotel enterprises and help them to gain reputation. It has also been observed that due to the change in consumer demands and sensitivities, hotel enterprises are turning to green applications to respond to this demand.

Rize İlinin Turizm Göstergelerinin Yıllara Göre Türkiye ile Kıyaslanması: 2009-2015

Author(s): Ahmet Tayfun,Esin Aysen,Burcu Ayşenur Akbulut / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2017

Rize, which is situated in the region of Black Sea of Turkey has a rich tourism potential in terms of the historical and cultural attractions such as traditional houses, stone hampback bridges, mosques, museums. as well as it’s natural beauties such as plateaus, hot springs, rivers, falls, lakes, flora and fauna. The usage of tourism resources of Rize and numbers of tourists have been changing within years. The main purpose of the study is to distinguish the situation of Rize in the tourism of Turkey and evaluate it’s share of tourism in the axis of Turkey according to the years, of 2009-2015. In this context it will be displayed the change of tourism indicators of Rize in years and compare them with the tourism statistics of Turkey. The tourism of Rize will be compared in terms of the characteristics such as the number of tourist, overnight, purpose of visit, level of income and education with the tourism of Turkey and put forward the points which differ from each other. In addition, by taking into consideration of the current situation of Rize tourism,which is supported with numbers it will be made some suggestions for Rize.

Značaj međunarodne saradnje zemalja Dunavskog regiona za razvoj i bezbednost Srbije i Evrope – pravni i geopolitički aspekti

Author(s): Saša V. Mijalković,Vera Arežina / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2012

International cooperation, on regional, interstate and local level, is essential for development of the countries in the Danube region. Besides, Serbia is a member in several regional initiatives – Central European Initiative – CEI, Southeast Cooperation Initiative – SECI, South-East European Cooperation Process – SEECP, Cooperation Process on the Danube, etc. Of great importance for Serbia and the region is adoption the EU Danube strategy, which is expected during next year. According to the Danube strategy, the Danube countries will be involved in joint projects with the aim of environmental protection, socio-economic development, as well as development of tourism, education, etc.