Purpose: Future tourism will take place in a robonomic economy (robot-based economy, robonomics). The massive introduction of robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies which will lead to the advent of an economy that will be qualitatively different from the current economy. The...

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...

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,...

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...

Globalisation is a political, economic, and social phenomenon and there are many who are in favor of it and many opposed to it. In this piece, the authors analyze the relationship between tourism and globalisation. The authors analyze 167 countries and territories for the years 2000-2010 to...

This article was written in order to give an insight into the subject of the educational tourism. The main focus was set on the case of the Eastern European foreign students (educational tourists). The research conducted during June-August 2014 was taken as a basis for writing the present...