The increasing communication possibilities in recent decades have contributed to increased and blurred situation as regards information dissemination and feedback among participants in various types of dialogues and communities. This is true especially in tourism industry where it is of vital...

Live projects become popular as an effective educational approach as a means for creating a real life learning environment. Current paper focuses on tourism and hospitality students’ involvement in live business projects and presents the experience of International University College,...

The paper analyses students’ graduation projects from the 2010-2011 academic year in International University College, Bulgaria. After the dissertation was introduced in 2010 as an alternative to enterprise project as a type of graduation project, students showed preferences to it. The paper...

“Understanding Tourism” is an insightful and original approach to different aspects of tourism. It is not about clarifying what tourism is (as the title may mistakenly imply), but rather about what tourism is not by breaking some firmly rooted paradigms such as the “demand – supply”...

The main goal of the dissertation is to elaborate models for analysis and appraisal of congress tourism competitiveness on micro (hotel or congress centre) and macro (congress destination) level and to formulate proposals for its improvement

Tourism is a key sector for the Bulgarian economy contributing to the balance of payment, economic growth and employment rate. The efficiency of tourism sector is closely related to the structure of its management and planning. This study focuses on the evolution of tourism development in...

The dissertation proposes models for analysis and appraisal of congress tourism competitiveness on both – mirco (hotel/congress centre) and macro (congress destination) levels based on comparative approach. The congress facilities including hotels, purpose-built centers, academic and other...

The impact of entrepreneurship education has been recognized as one of the crucial factors that help students develop an entrepreneurial attitude. Various international researches on the matter show significant differences at the retrieval of data, analysis and evaluation of the results. At the...

The European Union has developed and introduced a system of protection of Geographical Identifications (GI) and traditional specialties guaranteed (TSG) for the names and the quality of agricultural products and foodstuffs which is adopted by all member countries, including Bulgaria. The study...

The paper analyses entrepreneurship as a module/subject in undergraduate programmes and its educational aspects. The paper presents the results from a survey among students in undergraduate programmes in tourism and hospitality and discusses the experience of International University College,...