Tourism comprises a self- contained phenomenon synonymous to consumption and spare time and its growth, due to the development of technology and the improvement of the standards of living, has taken global dimensions. As a result tourism has developed to a pure industry, leading the economy and...

Environmental Education Centers have emerged more that thirty years ago. Preoccupation with the local environment can lead to a better understanding of universal problems, since local problems are always part of the universal. The trainees fully understand that their everyday choices and their...

The European Community has designed and is implementing policies to support disadvantaged mountain areas in today’s ever-changing world environment. Despite the initiatives, it appears that to reverse the devastation of mountain communities in disadvantaged areas is a difficult affair....

The current challenges make the constant search and adoption of sustainable touristic development necessary. This kind of development has both the human and the environment in the centre of interest. The touristic development should aim to both increase the level of the offered services? quality...

Wine-tourism is an important resource of income when it comes to organized wine producing countries. Wine-tourism in Greece emerged and developed only during the last twenty years and it’s far from being a well-organized industry.The foundation of the “Wine producers’ Association of the...

Quality rural products in general and wine more specifically, acquire an increasingly important role in European Communities Rural Growth policies. This results from the fact that they have a commercial advantage over other products, they support rural income and the rural economy, contribute to...

Purpose ndash; Mamp;A differences are based on three levels: preconditions, payment methods and motives-drivers. The paper's purpose is to determine the motives, preconditions and methods of Mamp;As in Greece and to compare them with the ones that are recorded in the studies for the Anglo-Saxon...

Legal initiatives have a significant impact on the inner and outer corporate environment. Recent scandals and developments have triggered a wave of regulative and voluntary initiatives to improve corporate governance (CG) quality. The legislators legislate, but how feasible, effective is the...

The paper analyzes ownership structure in Greece. Greece has the same characteristics as Spain, Italy, Portugal, and other countries that are ranked in the Continental Europe corporate governance system. Two measures of ownership concentration are used. The first is the sum of equity holdings of...

In this paper we examine the pattern of stock returns and volatility at an individual share level in the Greek stock market, which is subject to various international and domestic influences. The introduction of foreign and domestic indices to analyze basic stock trends is common in the...