­The literature devoted to economic development concerns itself in a growing de­gree with the role and importance of institutions­­­

The competition growth constitutes, at the organizations level, one of the major preoccupations for the present context of the social-economic changes. The effects of the globalisation process have been also noticed at tourism industry level, fact which had generated a series of changes both in...

One of the most distinctive skills of professional marketers is their ability to create, maintain, protect and enhance brands. In the hospitality industry, each company has several options with regard to presenting its brands. Companies with brands that are well established in the real world...

The number of victims made by the tsunami in Southeast Asia is frightening. The available data indicate over 300.000 victims, to whom we must add several hundred thousands of injured people and over 1.75 million people left homeless. The survivors have to deal with the crude truth: the loss of...

Being the most important industry in the world, tourism is often seen as a salutary solutin for helping the economic development of a country leading to an increase in the life standards. But what is the real situation? We try to define tourism and globalization, to present shortly the main...