Sport tourism appears as a specialized type of tourism with growing popularity for both participants and local residents. After examining several sides of existing definitions, authors analyse sport tourism impacts on local community in the context of the three bottom line perspective –...

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...

The chief objective of this study is to critically review the underlying concepts of different change management approaches and provide a framework for understanding their impacts on organizational reformation. The study also incorporates real life case from Bulgaria highlighting important...

In this paper, the authors analyze how microchips embedded into humans will impact upon the tourism industry in general and in Europe in particular. The authors discuss how the implanted microchips function and how tourism establishments will have to adjust to this change in the near future....

The research note addresses the problem of dynamic overbooking limits in the context of guaranteed and nonguaranteed bookings. The note shows how the optimal number of overbookings will change when the hotel receives a request for a specific date given the current guaranteed/nonguaranteed...

The paper examines the possibilities to manage the overbookings in the hotel industry. The basic mathematical model for calculating the optimal number of overbookings is analysed and techniques for calculating the optimal number of overbookings for a hotel with two different types of rooms and...

This Ph. D. dissertation discusses the measurement of the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 1 establishes the conceptual framework for measuring the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. Chapter 2 critically evaluates the methods currently used to measure the macroeconomic impacts of...

Cannibalization is an economic phenomenon which has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. In current paper we present a conceptual framework for analyzing cannibalization - its types and sources. Seven types of cannibalization are identified - product, customer base,...