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Development of Inbound and Domestic Tourism in the Republic of Moldova in the Context of New Global Travel Trends

Author(s): Natalia Antoci / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Travel trends determine the evolution of the tourism industry and also has an impact on all sectors operating in this industry. Tourism is an industry with a complex profile, which highlights both the country’s tourism potential and a wide range of services, which contributes to meeting certain moral, cultural, spiritual needs and, last but not least, meeting the needs of tourism consumption, of people, who intend to benefit from certain tourist services, thus increasing the world economy. In the conditions of crises of the world economy, which often produce the negative impact on the development of several national economies, tourism has proved, for several countries, to be a good solution to get out of these crises. Moreover, currently, both developing and developed countries pay special attention to the development of strategies to intensify domestic and international tourism as those that contribute to overcoming economic crises.

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Tourism for Young People with Traditional Practical Vocations. Application in Ozana Valley Touristic Area

Author(s): Vasile Avadanei,Lidia Avadanei / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper is elaborated on three pillars. The first pillar refers to the tourist basin Ozana Valley from Neamț County (Romania) which is one of the most important and most frequented tourist areas in the country. The second pillar refers to a concept of classification of the component elements using the “order in complication” method, through which each relevant element is developed in order to increase the added value of the tourist services in the area. The twelve cultural districts recompose a diversity and an individuality of each element so that the definition of the target groups, the frequency of the area. The mapping mode is a strong point of the paper. Also, the way ecosystems are organized. The third element refers to local human resources. It is necessary that, both as employment and as entrepreneurship, the human factor be recruited from local resources. This preserves the deepest elements of cultural specificity. The area has the institutional capacity to specialize young people to develop and support local activities in a complex ecosystem. These are the three school units with a technological profile on specializations that can be associated with tourism. The traditional paradigm can make room for small producers. Most importantly, arguments and reasons are provided for population stabilization.

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Young People Decide on the Tourist Future of Piatra Neamț

Author(s): Vasile Avadanei,Lidia Avadanei / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper starts from the drama of young people after graduating from school. In general, there is an expectation regarding the employment of young people in well-known companies for successful careers. This year was associated with the fact that tourism is a development priority for both Neamț County and Piatra Neamț. We put in front of the young people the hypothesis that they would be the decision makers of some policies, actions, initiatives through which they create job opportunities. Two fronts of work resulted. First front was the hypothetical role of young people as a generator of jobs. The second front was formed by the challenge of building a vision for attracting tourists. The result was an interactive dialogue that generated some interesting ideas and highlighted the fact that youth is a resource worth considering for the future of local development.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cultural Tourism

Author(s): Mariana Bălan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

During recent decades, tourism has become one of the most dynamic and fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Tourism is the economic sector that contributes to job creation both directly and indirectly, especially for women and young people. Thus, in 2019, the number of jobs in tourism accounted for 10.3% of total jobs worldwide, and the contribution of tourism to global GDP was 8%. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic is an important and evolving challenge for the tourism sector. Measures taken by countries around the world to counter the pandemic have severely affected the tourism industry, and recent developments in this health and economic crisis show that the likelihood of this sector returning to normal in the near future is very low. Based on the latest developments in quarantine measures, travel bans, border closures and previous crisis patterns, various international tourism bodies anticipate significant reductions in jobs and incomes in this economic sector. The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to combat it significantly affect all aspects of our lives and living environment, including tourism and cultural heritage. The paper presents a brief assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in general and especially cultural tourism, worldwide, at European and at national levels.

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Registered Traditional Agri-Food Products from Dobruja Region in Romania

Author(s): Laetitia Casangiu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Local traditional products have been rediscovered in the last years and are taking on a more and more important role in the preferences of the consumers, both because of the fact that they have a powerful symbolic value, and for their nutritional properties and qualities. Prepared after methods and recipes that have been passed on from generation to generation, with local raw materials; these products that are typical of industrial products intended for mass consumption. The present study sets out to bring into focus the traditional food from Dobruja registered at a European and national level with the purpose of making them better known and promoting them in the activities of gastronomic tourism. Furthermore, the endeavor of their identification , and presentation has the role, on the one hand, to rise the consumer`s awareness on the existence of some traditional foods that follow certain quality standards, and, on the other hand, to set an example of good practice for all the producers interested to adopt a higher production stage that can offer them better visibility on the market.

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Tourism as a Key in the Well-Being of Citizens: Glimpses from India

Author(s): Ved Pal Singh Deswal / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Today, in the era of competition and post-COVID challenges, tourism has become an important part of our life for everyone because it gives the necessary break from the monotonous life as a result of lockdown of couple of months during the covid period. Various studies have revealed that tourism influences peoples’ quality of life. India’s travel and tourism sector ranks 7th in the world in terms of its total contribution to the country’s GDP, according to a report by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).

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Tourism and the Importance of Honey Consumption in Healthy Diet

Author(s): Cristina Șurlea,Laurentiu Rosu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The opinion that in Romania the diseases and deficiencies caused by alimentation no longer exist has almost become a common place. Over 60% of the aliments offered are industrially finite products. The daily necessary of energy is ensured-at present-in a percentage of 75-80%, by overprocessed foods, such as the meats, the margarine, the extraction flour, etc.

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Psychosocial Aspects of Mountain Residents in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Dana-Alina Ungureanu,Danut Ungureanu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

While physical distances, relative isolation and lower population density play in favor for rural areas in terms of the direct impact of COVID-19, as the contagion spreads rural areas are increasingly hard hit. Rural inhabitants have dramatically less access to adequate health services, education, internet and communication technology, social protection and public infrastructure. For many rural small-scale producers and workers, the generation of income depends on their physical access to markets, and on-farm jobs.

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Relevant Differences between Urban and Rural from the Perspective of Young People’s Lifestyle

Author(s): Dana-Alina Ungureanu,Danut Ungureanu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The central theme of this study is how young people and young adults experience obstacles and opportunities in relation to their past, present and potential future in a rural area. There are certainly differences in the lifestyle of young people in rural and urban areas, observable for most of them. In this article we will focus on the following perspectives: living conditions, access to transportation, access to digitalization, to health and social services. Although social services seem to be a particularly relevant issue for the social groups of older people, it also targets the impact on children. Moving is an important element of difficulty in rural areas, involving relevant aspects of life. Although the desire to repopulate the mountainous rural environment is very high, there are aspects that the elderly have not thought about and on which the success of choosing the rural area really depends. Young people are less and less concerned with the management of farms, most of the actions that are chosen by them and successfully completed are those aimed at choosing a healthy lifestyle, like eating healthy food and being away from urban stress. In other words, the lifestyle that young people have in mind when moving to rural mountains is completely different from what older people expect.

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Costinești – istorie și practică balneară

Author(s): Oana - Nicole Stoican,Mirela Stoican,Daniela Varvaruc / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Costinești resort is the symbol of the seaside for young people, which is why it has attracted a significant number of high school or student tourists. But the therapeutic importance of these resorts was not and should not be neglected by the presence of valuable spa resources, especially for diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The present paper aims to identify the importance of these resorts for medical tourism, to make a brief description of its evolution over time and to identify current tourist activity. In this sense, the natural and anthropic tourist objectives are mentioned, the spa resources at its disposal, as well as the treatment and leisure base. The natural resources of these resorts bring it to the forefront, as a resort for leisure but also for spa tourism.

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Telemedycyna a niepełnosprawność wzrokowa – szanse, zagrożenia, wyzwania

Author(s): Katarzyna Binder-Olibrowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Telemedicine has been evolving for years, and the prevalence of its use spurred by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made it difficult to imagine healthcare without it in the future. As with other health care interactions, there is a need to control the quality of telemedicine interactions. One of the determinants of this quality is the fit between the services and the needs of the recipients. For years, attention has been drawn to the inequalities in access to health care experienced by people with disabilities. Hence, the question is whether telemedicine is an opportunity to achieve equality or is it another threat for this group of people? What challenges are associated with the use of technology-based health care services? This study is an attempt to answer these questions in relation to people with visual dysfunctions.

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Internet w służbie rodziców dzieci z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną

Author(s): Jakub Niedbalski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Despite the changes that have taken place in recent years, there are plenty of activities that are still inaccessible to categories of excluded and marginalized people due to numerous barriers in the social space. New media, and among them the Internet, offer a real chance to get rid of these limitations at least partially. Therefore, in this paper, I try to present the importance and functions of the Internet as attributed by parents of people with disabilities. The research conducted was qualitative in nature, and data analysis was based on the procedures of the grounded theory methodology.

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Edukacja zdalna. Adaptacja procesu dydaktycznego do potrzeb osób z niepełnosprawnościami

Author(s): Justyna Migacz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents information on the adaptation of the study process to the needs of selected groups of people with disabilities. The article focuses on adapting remote education. The concept of adaptation of the education process was defined. Suggestions for communication with people with disabilities were presented. Adaptations of remote education divided into groups of people with disabilities were presented. The information presented in the article is based on the literature on the subject as well as the author's observations and experience. The article contains practical knowledge. Due to the experience of the author, a significant part of the article is devoted to discussing the adaptation of remote education to the needs of people with visual disabilities. The article highlights the differences between distance and conventional education. Differences in the adaptation of the education process of people with disabilities resulting from the use of remote education were indicated.

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Wirtualizacja działań społecznych i obywatelskich – szanse i zagrożenia – na przykładzie Kongresu osób z niepełnosprawnościami

Author(s): Zbigniew Głąb / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The limitation of direct contacts resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic caused many projects - wanting to maintain their continuity - to move to the Internet. One of them is the Congress of People with Disabilities - a cyclical social initiative involving and connecting people and institutions related to the subject of disability - aimed at introducing changes and new solutions in this area. The virtualization of the Congress posed new challenges - both for its organizers and participants. The study aimed to determine how the Congress changed its nature as a result of its transfer to the Web, as well as the opportunities, challenges and threats associated with it. The analysis takes the perspective of the social movement and the related issue of representation - with the proviso that it is possible to discuss some features by which the Congress can be described as well as taking into account the difficulties in applying this theory to the disability community in general. For the analysis, 8 free directed interviews were conducted with the organizers of the Congress and the accompanying conventions. Among the respondents there are experts (with and without disabilities) in the field of disability, involved in the organization of Congress 2020, but also in its earlier editions. The research results indicate a noticeable change in the nature of the Congress - related both to the technical and financial side, but also to the social aspect associated with the relations and bonds between participants. Among the most important concerns was maintaining the rank of the Congress as an event that stands out and attracts new people to the emerging nucleus of the representation of people with disabilities in Poland. The particularly emphasized advantages of virtualization include the equalization of accessibility for people with various disabilities.

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Kultura zdalna: szansa na uczestnictwo czy zagrożenie izolacją? Przypadek osób z niepełnosprawnością wzroku

Author(s): Monika Dubiel / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The closure of polish cultural institutions for the public in 2020 forced them to switch their activity to completely virtual mode. It influenced significantly the quality, form and frequency of contact with culture for whole society, but probably it was the biggest change for recipients with disabilities. In this article I analyze the proces of virtualization of culture for its accessibility for people with visual impairment. I investigate possibilities and dangers related to it. The field of my research is the accessible cultural offer of selected institutions and nongovernmental organizations. I collected research data by interviewing both: employees of cultural institutions and recipients with visual impairment. The main research question is: Does virtualization contribute to removing barriers for people with visual impairment in the access to culture or the contrary, deepens already existing problems? Further questions are: how the virtualization impact the frequency of the accessible events and grade of participation of people with visual impairment in them? What kind of innovative solutions appeared in the accessible offer of institutions and organizations? Is the accessibility of distance culture easier or more difficult than in the case of face to face events? Disability studies and accessibility studies serve as a theoretical frame for my considerations.

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Dostępność Zintegrowanej Platformy Edukacyjnej dla uczniów ze specjalnymi potrzebami edukacyjnymi

Author(s): Joanna Wojtyńska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The pandemic limitation in the functioning of schools and the transition to distance learning increased the interest in the website www.epodreczniki.pl, where is located the so-called Integrated Educational Platform (ZPE). The article presents the genesis of ZPE, its content and, above all, the solution used to ensure the adaptation of the didactic materials on the above-mentioned side to the WCAG standard and the requirements of pupils with special educational needs (SEN). The adaptation of the materials was discussed in relation to the educational needs of students with various disabilities related to the use of ICT.

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Diagnoza kształcenia zdalnego wśród studentów i doktorantów z niepełnosprawnościami w sytuacji pandemii Covid-19 – wybrane zagadnienia raportu z badań

Author(s): Anna Gutowska,Joanna Sztobryn-Giercuszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the publication is to present selected results of the research on distance education of students with disabilities in Polish higher education institutions during Covid-19 pandemics. The authors gathered the opinions from 291 students with various disabilities, and they performed the analysis of the implementation of online education process in pandemics from the perspective of this specific group. The publication includes the respondents’ experiences referring to different areas of distance education and to its positive and negative aspects. It also offers the assessment of online learning from the substantive and organisational angle and from the perspective of its influence on the psychic, physic and social sphere of the respondents’ functioning. Also the opinions of students with disabilities on the support they expected and the one they received and on their expectations for distance education to be better adjusted to their needs are included in the publication. Perspectives of students with different disability types and levels, representing various higher education institutions, different study programmes, cycles and stages of studying were taken into consideration in the research.

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Muzykoterapia online w czasie pandemii

Author(s): Edyta Górska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In March 2020, because of the pandemic and lockdown, therapeutic activities for people with intellectual disabilities were suspended via revocation throughout Poland. Online music therapy became a necessity when switching to a remote form of music therapy for people with disabilities. It has become a challenge for both the leaders and the mentees. Online music therapy has turned into a daily ritual. The main research problem is the idea of conducting online music therapy. In the process of changing stationary music therapy to online music therapy, I applied innovations that have now become established as new methods. The participants were adults and children with intellectual disabilities from the PSONI center in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. This activity required the development of unconventional solutions, new methods and music therapy activities and it became one of the therapeutic measures in the period of isolation. Online music therapy has proven to be an effective method of therapy, which can successfully replace stationary music therapy in a situation of higher necessity, such as a pandemic.

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Joga w czasach zarazy – możliwości i wyzwania praktykowania jogi online przez osoby z dysfunkcją wzroku

Author(s): Kamila Albin / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This paper discusses yoga practice initiated during lockdown by visually impaired people using information and communication technology. The aim of the analysis is to show what possibilities remote communication tools offer blind and visually impaired people in terms of sport, especially in relation to the practice of yoga. The author reflects on the challenges of mediating exercise and contact with the teacher through digital platforms such as Zoom. The article also uncovers the perspective of yoga teachers who conduct classes with visually impaired people. It addresses the issue of challenges they face in working with this group and new skills in teaching yoga they have had to develop. The author poses the question as to whether this way of practicing yoga can have any advantage over practicing in a yoga school. The author explores answers to the questions posed above using the method of analytical autoethnography. The paper combines different perspectives of insight into the experience of practicing yoga: that of a researcher, a sociologist and a person with disabilities, and that of other people participating in classes and yoga teachers.

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Poradnictwo prawne i obywatelskie świadczone na odległość dla osób z niepełnosprawnością. Obserwacje z okresu pandemii

Author(s): Aleksandra Różycka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The public service of citizens and legal advice has been virtualized even before the lockdown had been implemented in response to the pandemic. This was possible due to previous experiences and both legal and organizational changes introduced one year earlier, which enabled the provision of remote services for people with disabilities from the beginning of 2019. This group of citizens was initially given the choice between advice given in person and services provided by various means of distance communication. Later, in time of the pandemic, the remote advice in most of the poviats (regional unit in Poland) became the only one accessible to all the citizens. Thus people with disabilities lost additional conveniences consisting in the possibility of having a personal meeting both at the point of advice and place of residence, in a place provided with appropriate equipment supporting communication or offering an access to a sign language interpreter. This article attempts to answer the question whether, under these conditions, it is possible to fulfill the role of legal and citizens counseling, taking into account that the problems of the beneficiaries may be complex and they are quite distanced from the ideal of fair protection of rights and obligations contained in the legal system. It was also considered what circumstances and forms of remote counseling contribute to maintaining the appropriate social quality of counseling services, which seems to condition nearing the institutions of the legal system and applicable regulations to a specific situation of an individual and its entire context, and consequently increases the chance of receiving adequate and valuable legal or citizens advice by people with disabilities.

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