Albania is recognized as a tourism destination at the Mediterranean coast and has a competitive position in the international tourism market. Sustainability and awareness for environmental issues are major part of the tourism development strategy in Albania. There are a lot of reasons explaining...

Nautical tourism ports make an open, dynamic and complex system which has been rapidly evolving; this is the reason why the development of this system requires continual monitoring and research. The existing models and development plans concerning nautical tourism ports do not provide for a...

Croatia has a set of cultural, historical and natural attractions and also has a great tourism potential needed to be supported by the sustainability concept of tourism development. Current Local Agenda 21 processes emphasize a cooperative approach to identifying the community’s goals for...

The local rural communities of Romania have been affected by the evolution of the history in the last decades. To these there have been added the years of centralised economy and afterwards the transition towards the market economy. All of these have put the inhabitants of the villages between...

The problems of environmental damage, economic unsustainability and social dislocation caused by rapid and extensive places for recreation growth might suggest that the key to greater sustainability lies in setting limits to urbanization and changing the rules in architecture and planning for...

The concept of "sustainability" is, at root, about a commitment to considering the future of the planet in our everyday affairs. In the corporate law context, supporters of sustainability seek to integrate these long-term environmental and social concerns into the corporation's DNA. This article...

In the present context, a crucial element that distinguishes one country against another in terms of economic is competitiveness. We can refer to this level of business or sector, at city, region or nation. Sustainable development is one of the factors is to develop the competitiveness and meet...

Tourism is one of the most important growth leading sectors in the world's economy. However, economies endowed with beautiful natural sites do always face a trade-off in the management of these resources. The problem is then to find an equilibrium point between utilisation and conservation of...

The economy of the historical Catalan town of Alghero, situated in the North-West coast of Sardinia (Italy), is highly influenced by the trend and dynamics of tourism activity. However, the higher the number of tourists in a certain location the greater the costs associated with negative...

In today's recreation and tourism, sustainable tourism must play an important role by making one or several types of tourism sustainable, with a lowest possible impact on environment and ecology. In order to develop sustainability of tourism which forms one of the very impressive spheres of...