The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the way tourism activities are conducted. Restrictions on moving from place to place have likely limited the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but have also led to economic crisis in many countries around the world. In this article, we assessed...

Technology is destroying book culture - at least if one trusts the book industry's branch journals. In this, technology and culture are often discussed as separate matters, which do not seem to get together as the term culture is highly charged with value attribution. However, research on the...

Among the different cultural heritage assets, genetic resources (GR) and traditional knowledge associated to them (TK) have a technical character and enjoy legal protection in the international law. Due to these characteristics, measures of patent law have been often considered for their...

The purpose of this research is to assess the conservation and management of heritage and the existing status of tourism in the town of Debre Tabor and its environs. The town of Debre Tabor is one of the exceptional towns in Ethiopia with a rich historical heritage. The historical sites of the...

Some cultural goods, like clothes and films, are consumed socially and are thus characterized by the same consumption network externalities as languages. At the same time, producers of new cultural goods in any one country draw on the stock of ideas generated by previous cultural production in...

Purpose: The existing cultural heritage tourism research rarely pays attention to the antecedents of brand authenticity. This research fills this gap and points out the critical role of brand legitimacy in building destination loyalty by constructing a theoretical framework....

Technology is destroying book culture - at least if one trusts the book industry's branch journals. In this, technology and culture are often discussed as separate matters, which do not seem to get together as the term culture is highly charged with value attribution. However, research on the...

Most cultural heritage projects strive in ensuring financial sustainability, mainly relying on public subsidies. At the same time, they lack fund management policies which directly affects their financial sustainability. European Union heritage policies focus on sustainability but after...

In recent years, the soaring prices of heritage properties in Georgetown, Penang have gained the attention of practitioners and investors. The practitioners claim that the prices of heritage properties within the core and buffer zones in Georgetown have increased more than 300% since the city...

We explore how bank CEOs' cultural heritage shapes the nexus between lending relationships and the cost of bank loans in the US syndicated loans market. We show that banks led by CEOs that trace their origin in more individualistic and masculine societies are less inclined to share with their...

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the external factors influencing ICT usage at UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS), focusing on exploring practices Tanzania. The study proposed and tested two hypotheses: a) there is a significant relationship between perceived pressure from competitors and ICT...

The aim of this research is to analyze the influence and propose arguments for using the PPP framework for FDI projects, directly or indirectly connected to cultural heritage. In the literature overview we analyze topics of determinants and barriers to FDI, relations between FDI, cultural...

Cultural sustainability, performance and the sustainable development goals in time of crisis is an essential cultural tapestry that responds meaningfully well to human critical needs in time of crisis, especially in North East Nigeria and other troubled spots in Nigeria and West Africa. The book...

The preservation of cultural heritage is entailing excessive cost (paid by people through taxation) while is a source of additional income for both, the State and the people, due to tourism. Since the evaluation of this good cannot be in market terms, we apply a modified version of the...

Chapter 1: The socio-economic impact of cultural heritage: setting the scene -- Part 1: From cultural heritage to local development: the role of tourism -- Chapter 2: Cultural heritage, tourism and economic development in the existing literature and beyond -- Chapter 3: From cultural heritage to...

Spatial Analysis of Cultural Resources and their Contribution to the Sustainable Tourism Development of Greece -- Exploring Stakeholders' Perspectives on Hotel Design -- Tourists’ Willingness to pay for Environmental and Sociocultural Sustainability in Destinations: Underlying Factors and the...

The role of entrepreneurship in Latin America and Iberia -- Venture capital and technology entrepreneurship in Latin America: A comparative approach -- World heritage sites and tourism entrepreneurship in Latin America -- The Role of Douro River in the Emergence of Technological Entrepreneurship...

Wayanad is a beautiful hill station nestled in the lap of Western Ghats. Once branded as the most backward district in Kerala, it emerged as one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the recent years. Scenic beauty, bio-diversity, weather, indigenous people etc. attract tourists to...

Wayanad is a beautiful hill station nestled in the lap of Western Ghats. Once branded as the most backward district in Kerala, it emerged as one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the recent years. Scenic beauty, bio-diversity, weather, indigenous people etc. attract tourists to...

Current global pressures on energy consumption have elevated the objective of energy efficiency both within the scientific and legislative agenda. This is due to increasing scarcity of natural resources and impacts on climate change originating from traditional fossil fuel-based energy...

While the topic of climate change is of global importance and has global consequences, the context is far more dangerous for emerging economies, including small island developing states (SIDS) and their coastal cities. The literature supports the need for robustness in infrastructural dimensions...

This paper uses panel data on over 200 regions of Europe to study the spatial distribution of UNESCO sites and the capacity of regional governments to conserve heritage, using new designations in the World Heritage List as a proxy. We test whether the location of a region matters by controlling...

Evidence-based policies require well-established research and reliable data. One of the major difficulties in delivering such data for cultural policies lies in measuring culture, expressing its ephemeral nature in numbers and indicators, as research used to do in other sectors....

The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspectives of local stakeholders on the role of religious tourism and the development process that alter the sacred space and religious heritage of Varanasi. Specific objectives include study local stakeholders' view on the motivation of visitors,...