The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between tourism arrivals and the global incidence of biodiversity loss, measured by the probability of the extinction of species of plants, ...mammals, birds, and fish while controlling for other relevant covariates: protected areas, agrarian production's share in GDP, crop production, energy intensity, and population levels. This study is designed around cross-sectional data from 2018 in 178 countries across the world. The biodiversity loss–tourism arrivals nexus is assessed in this study by the count model estimation. We adopted negative binomial and hurdle negative binomial regressions. The findings showed the existence of a positive relationship between tourism arrivals and some species extinction variables. Tourism demand is responsible for an excessive degree of biodiversity loss in the case of mammals and birds. The findings of this study suggest that an overdispersion test due to count data constraints should be taken into account when examining the link between biodiversity loss and tourism in a cross-sectional analysis.
Ovim pilot istraživanjem analiziraju se veze između komunikacijskih kompetencija turističkih vodiča i zadovoljstva turista vođenim turama u nekoliko gradova Istarske županije. Pomoćni cilj rada je ...utvrditi korelaciju između komunikacijskih vještina vodiča, te spola i godina iskustva u radu. Svrha istraživanja je ukazati na propuste verbalne i neverbalne kompetencije vodiča tijekom vođenja tura. Za potrebe istraživanja prikupljeni su podaci od 283 ispitanika (turista) odabranih destinacija. Ispitanici dolaze s različitih emitivnih tržišta. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na potrebu poboljšanja verbalnih vještina vodiča, kao i neverbalne komunikacije, poput pristupačnosti i sposobnosti razvoja prijateljskih odnosa s klijentom. Doprinos istraživanja je unaprjeđenje spoznaja u području interdisciplinarnih istraživanja (turizam i kultura). Rezultati istraživanja predstavljaju transfer znanja o očekivanim kompetencijama ispitanika i utjecaju na zadovoljstvo korisnika u svrhu unaprjeđenja kvalitete rada medijatora u turizmu i promotora destinacija.
Traveling is one of the oldest phenomena of human life and is part of the human history. Development has significantly contributed to the travel effects of travel agencies and tour operators. ...Development of tour operators, specialists in the UK, is an example of the expected development of tour operators in Croatia, with emphasis on organizing trips for singles. The problem of research in this paper is as follows: the concept of organizing trips for singles is insufficiently presented and promoted on the Croatian tourism market. The basic working hypothesis is: tour operators have an important role in the qualitative and quantitative improvement of the travel and tourism development. The purpose of the research is to show the fundamental characteristics of travel agencies and tour operators with an emphasis on organized trips for "single" as a possible future trend in the tourism market. The aim of the research is to investigate and compare the development of Croatian operators with examples of operators in the UK.
Triggered by the phenomenon of globalisation and unrest on both sides of Mediterranean, during recent decades there has been a process of tourism travelling re-switching in the tourism expenditure ...domain; hence the debate over convergence or divergence of the international tourism flows, caused by abruptly fall out of vogue of some destinations due to negative shocks produced by unrest in that volatile region, has never ended. Following on the extensive multidisciplinary literature on this issue, the purpose of this paper is two-fold 1) to apply a traditional analysis of convergence (sigma and beta convergence) in tourism demand flows and Principal Component and Cluster Analyses to investigate on the existence of different international tourism models, 2) to analyse tourism receipts expressed as a share of total and derive a possible classification of the countries and its profiles by means of a multivariate approach. This paper tries to test the hypothesis of convergence of tourism demand in Mediterranean area. We considered a sample of 20 Mediterranean countries, and used data from the World Indicator Database 1995-2015, keeping all relevant variables that interfere with international tourism demand in that region. The excepted results of this paper can be interpreted as a further contribution to the literature on contemporary positive economics in the international tourism domain.
Several authors indicated the existence of different relative importance of each web site quality factor across e-business domains and between stakeholders. They also found the correlation between ...web site quality and e-business performance . The website with the highest quality produced the highest business performance. Therefore there is a need to constantly monitor users’ behavior and their requirements in different e-business sector towards better web site design. The aim of this research is to explore possibilities of classification data mining tools to support and automate process of discovering users` perception of web site design quality factors. In order to do that we collected 81 cases that serve as an input for inductive reasoning. We applied modified ID3 algorithm and induced the most informative attributes and rules describing users` perception of web design quality for online travel agency. The findings can provide the management and web designers with useful insights to enhance and refine their business performance.
Elitni turizam pojavljuje se u nizu selektivnih oblika turizma (kulturni, sportski i dr.) i stoga se često pojmovno različito definira (luksuzni, premium, visokokvalitetni, specijalizirani, ...alternativni, transformativni). Destinacije orijentirane dodanim koristima za klijenta i razvoju partnerstava bolje konkuriraju na tržištu elitnog turizma. U hrvatskom turizmu pojedine se destinacije nazivaju destinacijama elitnog turizma. Međutim, postoje razlike u razvoju hrvatskih obalnih destinacija koje teže visoko kvalitetnom turizmu. Cilj rada je ispitati stavove dionika odabranih obalnih gradova o razini razvoja elitnog turizma. Svrha istraživanja je ukazati na potrebne izmjene modela razvoja turizma (zbog rizika pojave negativnih eksternalija u vidu zagađenja, buke, gužvi, poteškoće prilaza destinaciji, nedostatka ambijentalnosti) koji ne ide u prilog turistima visoke platežne moći već ih usmjerava drugim destinacijama. Ispitani su stavovi dionika obalnih destinacija kombiniranom metodom prikupljanja podataka (metoda anketiranja i dubinski intervju). Rezultati istraživanja upućuju na izostanak uravnoteženog razvoja destinacije u turističkom sustavu. U varijablama destinacijske ponude oko varijable dodane ponude i usluge procjenitelji su bili najmanje ujedinjeni. Doprinos rada su preporuke javnom i privatnom sektoru kao i lokalnom stanovništvu za unaprjeđenje segmenta luksuznih ponuda i razmišljanja o implementacijama inicijativa turizma globalne razine.
Turističke zajednice (DMO) svojim društvenim djelovanjem mogu turistički proizvod učiniti visoko kvalitetnim ističući autohtonost i izvornost ponude. Istraživanje je provedeno metodom anketiranja s ...ciljem analiziranja rada priobalnih i ruralnih turističkih zajednica u hrvatskome turizmu (Istarske i Primorsko-goranske županije). Prikupljeno je 58 upitnika od ukupno 66 turističkih zajednica u Istarskoj i Primorsko-goranskoj županiji te je provedena deskriptivna statistička analiza. Istraživanje je dio širega istraživanja provedena u razdoblju od 2014. do 2016. godine među turističkim organizacijama u hrvatskome turizmu. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na nerazmjer između djelovanja turističkih zajednica obalnih i ruralnih prostora s aspekta iniciranja razvoja novih turističkih proizvoda.
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