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Journal articles on the topic "European hospitality sector"
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Campos Soria, Juan Antonio, and Luis Robles Teigeiro. "The employment multiplier in the European hospitality industry: a gender approach." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 31, no. 1 (January 14, 2019): 105–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-10-2017-0675.
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to estimate the capacity of the predominant activity of the Hotel and Restaurant (H&R) sector to create female employment in European Union (EU) countries. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used was conducted in two stages. First, a branch employment multiplier was calculated using the Leontief input-output tables (IOTs), which show the direct and indirect capacity of the activity to generate female employment. Second, a regression model was estimated to explain the determinants of the female employment multiplier in the H&R sector. It should be noted that the reliability and simplicity of the proposed model allows countries without IOTs, but with gender-disaggregated labor statistics, to easily estimate their own female employment multiplier. Findings The results show that the job-creation capacity of the H&R sector significantly varies across the EU countries, especially in relation to the female employment multiplier. Although international differences in gender wage gaps help to explain such multipliers, institutional factors and feminization rate also play a key role. Research limitations/implications The results may contribute to improving the actions of member states to stimulate the sustainable development of the tourism sector. Originality/value Based on previous literature, the finding that higher tourism expenditure may result in increases in tourism employment gives rise to another set of interesting questions. The most fundamental of these may concern the nature of the economic underpinnings of the growth of female employment. This paper contributes to this issue by conducting a specific analysis across EU countries using a homogenous and comparable methodology.
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Capdeville Chapuzet, Amaury, and Bambang Hadi Prabowo. "Cost Competitiveness and Structural Changes of The Hospitality Sector in Europe." Tamansiswa Accounting Journal International 3, no. 1 (October 21, 2021): 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.54204/taji/vol312021005.
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We investigated 120 hotels in 5 European countries to collect data for the 2010-2020 time period. The cost of labor and human capital is an important indicator of the competitiveness of the hospitality industry. We analyze human capital from work or performance. We use the Input-Output to measure performance.Based on the results of the regression and analysis, it can be seen that from 5 countries there are centers of tourism and high hospitality competitiveness, namely France and Spain. This difference in competitiveness affects the occupation of the hotel and the performance of the hotel business. The labor factor also follows based on the center of tourist attraction in 5 countries.
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Williams, Colin C., and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic. "Regulating the sharing economy to prevent the growth of the informal sector in the hospitality industry." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 29, no. 9 (September 11, 2017): 2261–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-08-2016-0431.
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Purpose To tackle one of the main negative consequences of the sharing economy, namely, the growth of the informal sector, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate for the first time the impacts of the informal sector on the hospitality industry and then to discuss what needs to be done to prevent the further growth of the informal sector in this industry. Design/methodology/approach To evaluate the impacts of the informal sector on the hospitality industry, data are reported from 30 East European and Central Asian countries collected in 2013 in the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey. Findings The finding is that 23 per cent of hotels and restaurants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia report competing against unregistered or informal operators, and 13 per cent view these informal competitors as a major or severe obstacle. The larger the business, the greater is the likelihood that the informal sector is considered their biggest obstacle. Practical implications To prevent the further growth of the informal sector in the hospitality industry, regulation of the sharing economy will be required. To achieve this, it is shown that state authorities need to adopt both direct control measures that alter the costs of operating in the informal sector and the benefits and ease of operating formally, as well as indirect control measures that reduce the acceptability of operating in the informal sector. Originality/value This is the first paper to evaluate the impacts of the informal sector on the hospitality industry and to outline the policy measures required to prevent its further growth with the advent of the sharing economy.
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Carlisle, Sheena, Stanislav Ivanov, Corne Dijkmans, and Bartolome Marco-Lajara. "Environmental Skills Gaps in Tourism and Hospitality Organisations." Tourism 70, no. 3 (June 14, 2022): 411–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37741/t.70.3.6.
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This research analyses the current self-reported level of proficiency of environmental skills, the required future level of proficiency, and the gaps between them. Given the increasingly urgent need for the tourism industry to take action to support environmental management practices, this research provides evidence of key environmental skill gaps. Mixed methods research is applied where the sample includes 1404 respondents to a questionnaire and 264 interviewees from senior management of organisations from five tourism sectors (accommodation establishments, food and beverage outlets, destination management organisations, tour operators and travel agents, visitor attractions) in eight European countries. Analysis of variance, t-tests, correlation and cluster analyses, and Pearson Chi-square tests were employed for data analysis. The findings revealed that the country of registration, the size and the tourism sector type influence significantly the current and future proficiency levels of environmental skills, and the gaps between them. Most respondents did not receive environmental skills training. Theoretical, managerial and policy implications are also discussed.
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Singh Mahato, Gyaneshwor Prasad, and Anish Dahal. "Boris Lissanevitch and Nepali Tourism: History Revisited." Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures 3, no. 1 (August 19, 2021): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jtha.v3i1.39114.
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In the transitional phase of Nepal, attaining peoples’ democracy in the 1950, the tourism and hospitality sector witnessed dynamism. The isolated Nepal was on the way of opening for tourism. This paper tries to frame a picture of the era of 1950s in Nepal when commercial tourism was introduced. An overlooked pioneer, Boris Lissanevitch, who established the international-standard Royal Hotel in Kathmandu in 1954, assisted in making key changes in the progression of tourism as visa issuance, hospitality modernization, management of royal events, sightseeing activities, accomplishing inter-continental land cruise, and introduction of European vegetables and dishes. His vision of tourism as an economic sector led Nepal attaining its golden age (of tourism) thus paving the way for other tourism and hospitality enthusiasts to establish similar businesses. This paper aims at interpreting and appreciating the efforts Boris made in the development of tourism in Nepal among tourism scholars and stakeholders
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Arzoumanidis, Ioannis, Anna M. Walker, Luigia Petti, and Andrea Raggi. "Life Cycle-Based Sustainability and Circularity Indicators for the Tourism Industry: A Literature Review." Sustainability 13, no. 21 (October 27, 2021): 11853. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132111853.
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The tourism industry is one of the fastest growing sectors, even though in the last couple of years there has been a negative effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This growth has led to an increase in environmental, economic and social impacts. Furthermore, the transition towards a circular economy has become one of the priorities of the European Union given its orientation towards sustainable development. However, the concept of circular tourism has been poorly analysed until now. This paper aims at identifying a set of life cycle-based sustainability- and circularity-related indicators for the hospitality sector by means of a literature review and a content analysis. It presents an overview of the most relevant themes and indicators in the tourism sector, showing that carbon footprint and resource-related indicators are especially relevant. Given the complexity of the measurement of circularity and the fact that life cycle-based indicators have started to be considered in this field, the paper also proposes some criteria for indicator selection to make their application more feasible for hospitality actors.
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Styles, David, Harald Schoenberger, and José Luis Galvez-Martos. "Water management in the European hospitality sector: Best practice, performance benchmarks and improvement potential." Tourism Management 46 (February 2015): 187–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2014.07.005.
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Ariza-Montes, Antonio, Juan M. Arjona-Fuentes, Rob Law, and Heesup Han. "Incidence of workplace bullying among hospitality employees." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 29, no. 4 (April 10, 2017): 1116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-09-2015-0471.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to the address the key factors of workplace bullying among hospitality employees, as workplace bullying results in damaging consequences on both individuals and organizations. Design/methodology/approach This study first defines the phenomenon of workplace bullying and then reviews the related literature. Data are collected from a sample population of 238 hospitality employees obtained from the latest European Working Conditions Survey. Logistic regression analysis is used to achieve the study objectives. Findings Results from the binary logistic regression model show the main personal and organizational factors related to the probability of workplace bullying. The logistic regression model explains 76.4 per cent of the total variations in the sample. The model correctly classifies 78.1 per cent of hospitality employees who did not feel bullied in their profession and 74.1 per cent of employees who did feel bullied. Practical implications The authors’ findings imply that responsible managers in hospitality enterprises may reduce the organizational levels of workplace bullying by adjusting certain working conditions and establishing a supportive environment. Originality/value Studies on personalities inclined to bullying are inconclusive. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to develop a comprehensive and exploratory conceptual model of workplace bullying that links personal variables, working conditions and contextual factors to the prevalence of workplace bullying within the hospitality sector in the European context.
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Vasanicova, Petra, Sylvia Jencova, Beata Gavurova, and Radovan Bacik. "Coopetition of European Union Countries within Destination Management." Journal of Tourism and Services 13, no. 24 (June 30, 2022): 71–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.29036/jots.v13i24.368.
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Coopetition has been the issue of various studies in different fields, but there is a research gap in examining coopetition within the tourism sector and destination management. This paper aims to determine whether there are internally homogeneous and externally heterogeneous groups of European Union countries regarding indicators of natural and cultural resources of the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI), and thus subsequently identify the importance and possibilities of competition among countries within the tourism sector. Multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis are used to verify the research hypothesis, along with ten indicators of the fourth sub-index (Natural and Cultural Resources) of TTCI. The results of the cluster analysis led to a six-group solution. Italy, Spain, and France have the best position in terms of tourism competitiveness. The results show space for competition in the international tourism market. Even though EU countries are competitors at a global level, their cooperation could be beneficial to tourism development. The findings of this study can be helpful in planning and strategy development for tourism policymakers and destination management organizations but can also be used to develop various marketing strategies. Furthermore, cooperation between destinations will support the need for strategic flexibility in the tourism sector, as the diversity of tourism attractions will increase.
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Zekan, Bozana, Irem Önder, and Ulrich Gunter. "Benchmarking of Airbnb listings: How competitive is the sharing economy sector of European cities?" Tourism Economics 25, no. 7 (December 11, 2018): 1029–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354816618814349.
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Airbnb is arguably the world’s most popular accommodation sharing platform. Its impact on demand and supply within the tourism and hospitality industry is nowadays unquestionable. The present study delves into inspecting the efficiency of Airbnb listings of European cities, as, in spite of the success of Airbnb as a whole, it cannot be presupposed that all listings are equally successful. More specifically, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed in this first comprehensive benchmarking attempt within the domain of the sharing economy to date. This article also makes a contribution to robustness by introducing an interactivity note to the base model, thus, inspecting the results for corroboration/discrepancies and going beyond the static analyses that are common in DEA modeling. Ultimately, this is done with the goal of highlighting opportunities for inefficient Airbnb listings to properly utilize their inputs and therefore become more competitive.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "European hospitality sector"
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Masuku, Gabriel Mthokozisi Sifiso. "Harmonization of SACU Trade Policies in the Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectors." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1740_1280359750.
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The general objective of the proposed research is to do a needs analysis for the tourism and hospitality industries of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. This will be followed by an alignment of these industries with the provisions of the General Agreement of Trade in Services, commonly known as GATS, so that a Tourism and Hospitality Services Charter may be moulded that may be used uniformly throughout SACU. The specific objectives of the research are: To analyze impact assessment reports and studies conducted on the Tourism and Hospitality Industries for all five SACU member states with the aim of harmonizing standards, costs and border procedures. To ecognize SACU member states&rsquo
schedule of GATS Commitments, especially in the service sectors being investigated, by improving market access, and to recommend minimal infrastructural development levels to be attained for such sectors&rsquo
support. To make recommendations to harness the challenges faced by the said industries into a working document. To calibrate a uniformity of trade standards in these sectors that shall be used by the SACU membership. To ensure that the template is flexible enough for SACU to easily adopt and use in ongoing bilateral negotiations, for example.
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Carrão, Patrícia Margarida Gonçalves. "A estrutura financeira das empresas hoteleiras portuguesas versus europeias." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10405.
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Mestrado em FinançasO presente estudo tem como objectivo a realização de uma comparação da estrutura financeira das empresas portuguesas do sector hoteleiro com empresas de outos países da União Europeia do mesmo ramo de actividade. A amostra que serviu de base para esta investigação é constituída por empresas do sector hoteleiro de seis países (Portugal, Espanha, França, Reino Unido, Grécia e Itália) com referência ao período de 2001 a 2010. A metodologia utilizada consistiu no modelo de regressão linear de forma a aferir os factores explicativos para a estrutura financeira de cada país, na ANOVA para a comparação de médias de endividamento e no método σ convergência de modo a perceber, se a estrutura financeira entre os vários países em análise estão a convergir ou a divergir. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que as empresas do sector hoteleiro estabelecidas na Grécia e em Portugal apresentam os maiores níveis de endividamento a médio e longo prazo, apresentando também a maior queda de rendibilidade entre os anos em estudo, o que aponta para eventuais dificuldades financeiras. Quanto aos determinantes da estrutura de capital, os que apresentam maior importância para a generalidade dos países são a rotação do activo, a rendibilidade, a flexibilidade financeira, a dimensão e a tangibilidade do activo. Contudo, nenhum dos países analisados apresentam os mesmos factores explicativos que Portugal para qualquer maturidade de endividamento. Por fim, constata-se uma tendência de convergência no nível de endividamento total e a curto prazo dos países em análise.
The study in hand has as it's objective the comparison between the financial structure of a Portuguese company, hotel sector, and other EU companies of the same business sector. This study was based by a sample of companies of the following countries: Portugal, Spain, France, UK, Greece and Italy (Date referenced: 2001 ? 2010). The methodology used was the linear regression model as it's a way of calibration and explanation for the financial structure of each country. In ANOVA the comparison of the average debit and the σ convergence method was used as a way of understanding if the financial structure of all the countries in study are converging or diverging. As a result of all the analysis it's suggested that the companies established in Portugal and Greece in the hotel sector have the biggest debit levels in medium and long-term and the greater drop in profitability in the years in study. All this points out for eventual financial difficulties. As for the determinants of the capital structure, in general the most important are: Asset turnover, ensuring profitability, financial flexibility, dimension and tangibility of the asset. Still, none of the countries in study have the same explanation factors as Portugal for any debt maturity. In the end, we find a short-term tendency of convergence in the levels of the total debit of the countries in study.
Books on the topic "European hospitality sector"
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Petrovici, Norbert, Codruța Mare, and Darie Moldovan. The Economy of Cluj. Cluj-Napoca and the Cluj Metropolitan Area: The development of the Local Economy in the 2008-2018 decade. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52257/9786063710445.
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Over the last decade, globalization processes have intensified, and as such, global organizations relocated their secondary processes to new spaces specialized in operations (Peck 2018; Oshri, Kotlarsky, and Willcocks 2015). Most of the processes that are being externalized are Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) (Oshri, Kotlarsky, and Willcocks 2015). The global outsourcing hotspots are India, China and the Philippines, that concentrate over 80% of outsourced processes. At European level, Central and Eastern Europe has capitalized most of the outsourcing in the West, particularly in regards to German capital (Marin 2018; Dustmann et al. 2014). Almost half (45.4%) of the total foreign investments of German companies is outsourced to Central and Eastern Europe. In Romania 63.7% of the German foreign investments are processes that were outsourced to our country (Marin, Schymik, and Tarasov 2018). As Peck (2018) points out, the logic behind the process is finding the cheapest labor force pools. Initially, outsourcing was focused on industrialized labor, however, now it is mostly skilled and highly skilled workforce that is being outsourced (Pavlínek 2019). Even if it is work performed by white collars, it has a high level of repetitiveness; however, in sectors such as IT there are also R&D operations (Oshri, Kotlarsky, and Willcocks 2015). Cluj is an example of a city whose local economy and workforce composition changed dramatically after the 2008-2010 financial crisis. The city is one of the Central and Eastern European hubs that benefited from the globalization of outsourcing operations. In particular, Cluj-Napoca excels in four transnational fields: Information & Communications Technology, Business Support Services, Engineering, Research & Development and Financial Services. In 2018, Cluj-Napoca was one of the most developed cities in the European Union in the GDP per capita group 19.000 – 27.000 at Purchasing Power Parity, cities that made a credible commitment at European level to promote knowledge, culture and creativity. In particular, participation in global production chains has generated the emergence of two types of internal markets: An internal market for the well-paid labor force employed in internationalized sectors that consumes a series of dedicated products and services: hospitality (restaurants, cafes, bars), food stuffs (meat products, pastries, premium alcoholic products), lifestyle services (hair salons , spas, gyms), cultural services (festivals, theatres, operas), location services (real estate services, interior design services, furniture manufacturing services). A set of markets that serve the global capital in reproducing their location (cleaning services, security, construction of type A office buildings, human resources). Both domestic and internationalized markets are responsible for the impressive development of the city between 2008 and 2018. The GDP of the Cluj Metropolitan Area and the private revenues of companies have doubled in the last decade.
Book chapters on the topic "European hospitality sector"
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Antolini, Fabrizio, and Antonio Giusti. "Tourism of Italians in Italy through crisis and development: the last 15 years, region by region." In Proceedings e report, 239–44. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.45.
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Tourism is a very important economic activity for many nations and Italy is among those that particularly benefit from it. In fact, even during the period of pandemic, despite the crisis, tourism in Italy proved to be a particularly resilient sector: among all European countries, Italy is the one that recorded the highest number of total tourist nights-spent. However, tourism statistics are not yet exhaustive in describing a highly variable phenomenon at the territorial level. Even the tourism satellite accounts, so useful for sectoral planning at regional level, are compiled for the whole country. Instead, the territories do not always know themselves, while the enhancement of landscape resources is one of the major issues that has not always been adequately analyzed; also in the recently approved Italian PNRR/Next Generation EU. In this article, we aim to examine the trend of the tourism phenomenon in the various Italian regions over the past 15 years; a period marked by crises of different origins (economic, political, health) which slowed down the economic development of the third millennium. In particular, given the problems mentioned above, we decided to start the research by considering the arrivals in hotels and non-hotel establishments by Italian tourists. The hospitality business is in fact an important part of the tourism industry. We expect domestic tourism to have greater stability, being less affected by international problems. We then examined the tourism of Italians in Italy, in the various regions, from 2006 to 2020. This analysis allowed us to observe the tourism phenomenon in Italy from a different perspective, observing, region by region, the relationship between tourism within the region and tourism coming from others regions. The choice of arrivals, instead of night spent, reduces the influence of the specific type of tourism in each region. The first results appear interesting.
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Christou, Anastasia, and Eleonore Kofman. "Gendered Labour." In IMISCOE Research Series, 33–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91971-9_3.
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AbstractAs we saw in Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-91971-9_1, the gendered transfer of labour globally and within Europe has been the focus of attention and the core of the discourse concerning the feminization of migration. Whilst gendered labour migrations are not new, their composition, extent, and how we analyse them, theoretically and methodologically, have evolved. As data show, migrants and especially females, are heavily concentrated within certain sectors producing not just a migrant division of labour (Wills et al., 2010) but a gendered migrant division of labour. Some sectors such as household services (domestic work and care) or social reproductive labour are not only predominantly female but, especially in Southern Europe, overwhelmingly filled by migrant women. Although this type of work has attracted much attention in studies of female labour migration, other sectors, both lesser skilled and more skilled, have also relied heavily on female migrant labour but have been much less studied. Mirjana Morokvasic (2011) questioned the basis of our preoccupation about migrant women as subaltern and victims, exclusively filling low skilled sectors. Thus domestic and care workers have become the emblematic figures of globalised migrations in stark contrast to the easily mobile male IT worker (Kofman, 2013). This is not to deny that domestic and care work globally employ more migrant women than any other sector, and that demand has not grown in response to the inadequacies of public provision across different welfare regimes, leading to the search for cheap solutions to fulfil reproductive needs by using migrant workers, including men. However it does raise issues around our lack of attention to other low skilled sectors such as hospitality and contract and commercial cleaning in hospitals, offices and public spaces, which also employ large numbers of migrants. Skilled labour, especially in welfare sectors, such as education, health and social work is also sourced globally to make good shortfalls in professional reproductive labour (Kofman & Raghuram, 2015). Thus at all skill levels migrant women are employed disproportionately in diverse sectors of social reproduction in sustaining the wellbeing of the household and of society more generally.
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Efthymiou, Marina, Pavlos Arvanitis, and Andreas Papatheodorou. "Institutional Changes and Dynamics in the European Aviation Sector." In Global Dynamics in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality, 41–57. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0201-2.ch003.
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This chapter covers three areas of institutional changes in the European aviation sector that may significantly affect the dynamics of the tourism industry. Further to the introduction, airlines are discussed in section two; airports are analysed in section three; and air navigation service provision are presented in section four. The dynamics of these three pillars and the interrelationship with the tourism industry is explored in section five. Among others, the chapter argues that when a proper systemic approach is followed any smart relaxation of regulatory and infrastructural constraints will have positive repercussions on tourism growth and development not only of central places but also of more peripheral regions. Finally, section six concludes and discusses the way forward.
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Hudson, Dr Simon, and Louise Hudson. "The Financial and Behavioral Impacts of Customer Service." In Customer Service for Hospitality and Tourism. 3rd ed. Goodfellow Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781915097132-5081.
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As world economies shift from a dependence on manufacturing to a focus on providing timely, quality service, customer service becomes more and more criti- cal to business success – particularly in the service sector. The opening spotlight featuring Scott Dunn Travel is a good example. The tourism industry is just one part of the growing service sector, and there is an increasing dominance of services in economies worldwide. The services sector employs around 45% of the world’s total labor force, and in many western countries, the service sector is responsible for over three-quarters of the Gross Domestic Product. In North America today nearly 80% of people employed work in the service sector and less than 10% are employed in manufacturing. The service sector accounts for nearly 80% of GDP. This is the same in many European economies (United Kingdom, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, France, Denmark and Belgium) and, outside Europe, other manufacturing countries have moved to services as well. For example, in South Korea service activities represented 54% of total employment in 1995 and by 2019 that percentage was over 70%.
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Şchiopu, Andreea Fortuna. "Tourism and Hospitality's Young Workforce." In New Trends and Opportunities for Central and Eastern European Tourism, 44–62. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1423-8.ch003.
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This chapter aims to study the perspectives on the foreign language skills based on the Romanian tourism and hospitality young workforce views. Qualitative and quantitative methods help collect data to identify the main barriers to foreign language learning, the fluency in English and a second language and the willingness to learn a second language when necessary, and the young workforce's openness and readiness for exotic foreign languages. The results show that English is a requirement within the labor market in the tourism and hospitality sector that the young workforce knows about and that knowing a second foreign language may act as a differentiator within the labor market. China is gaining ground as a tourism market with many Chinese tourists traveling the world. This brings about a new challenge for the tourism staff: that of acquiring new exotic foreign languages. It is well understood that tourists prefer to use their native tongue or a world language such as English.
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Kiptenko, Viktoriia, and Maria Rastvorova. "VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM LABOUR FORCE: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES." In Theoretical and methodological approaches to the formation of a modern system of national and international enterprises, organizations and institutions' development (2nd ed.). 2nd ed. Primedia eLaunch LLC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/tmafmseoid.ed-2.16.
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The importance of volunteering is globally recognized by the UN. We speculate that the socially beneficial activity on a voluntary basis should be an important component of modern development strategies, for travel and tourism in particular. The process of training specialists in this sector has to follow the current trends, including the sustainability imperative. The volunteer experiences - as a way to preserve and strengthen universal human values manifested around the world - ground the eventual means of its practical implementation in the education and professional training of future travel and tourism proficient by the Department of Regional Studies and Tourism of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The cooperation between the academia, stakeholders, public organizations, and the city of Kyiv administration (KCSA) within the framework of the Academy of Hospitality project of 2021 proves the feasibility of taking into account the new systems of productive interplay within the "teacher-student" format, the priorities of world and European experience in the process of training tourism managers and volunteers. Preservation of rights and responsibilities of tourism managers, personal growth and practical professional training put focuses on the awareness of the need for lifelong learning.
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Ribeiro de Almeida, Cláudia, Vânia Costa, and Jorge Abrantes. "Airline Business Models and Tourism Sector." In Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry, 216–39. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9936-4.ch012.
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The new century brought innovation, creative business environments, and above all, new competitors to some sectors. One of them is the airline sector that besides being very dynamic is highly competitive and vulnerable to external factors. The new changes impact directly in the way the product/service is presented and sold with consequences for the demand and tourism flows. After the deregulation process that happen in USA on the '70s and in Europe in the late '90s, the airline sector adjust their business models to the new trends and market changes, regulations, new competitors, and above all, to the new demand profile. This new business models brought new perspectives with more flexible and innovative services and products in order to follow market trends and to attract new boosting tourism demand. Despite the business model, air transportation is essential for some tourism destinations, mainly the ones that are very dependent on one single airline typology or with particular geographical features and needs.
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Chauhan, Mukesh. "Travel and Tourism Sector in India." In Corporate Social Responsibility in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry, 119–37. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9902-1.ch010.
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The travel and tourism industry has emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors contributing significantly to global economic growth and development. While traditionally Europe and America have remained among the tourism markets, new emerging markets are expected to witness high growth in international tourist visits over the next decade. India has significant potential to become a preferred tourist destination globally. Its rich and diverse cultural heritage, abundant natural resources and biodiversity provides numerous tourist attractions. The total tourist visits in India have been growing at a steady rate of about 16 per cent over the past five years. The travel and tourism sector in India provides significant socio economic benefits. Several industry drivers such as government initiatives, diverse product offerings, growing economy, increasing disposable income levels and marketing initiatives along with key trends such as increasing number of women and senior citizen travellers, multiple short trips and weekend holidays, introduction of innovative tourism concepts and customised tour packages are playing a pivotal role in shaping the Indian tourism sector. Total tourist visits in various states of India over a five year period reveal that while states of Karnataka, Delhi, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Jammu and Kashmir have improved their positions in 2012 as compared to 2008, those of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala have witnessed decline. Key attributable reason to the success of tourism in states is the increase in state investments towards the tourism sector. While the key commercial and leisure destinations of Delhi and Maharashtra enjoy good quality transport and accommodation infrastructure, states of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand may need significant improvements in their rail, road and airport infrastructure. Abundant natural and cultural resources in the northern states provide ample opportunities for development of diverse tourism products along with a single integrated tourism circuit. While an array of ancient and modern temples may provide an opportunity for developing states in northern India to emerge pilgrimage destinations, presence of palaces, forts and historical monuments help define their multi-cultural heritage. Also, wildlife sanctuaries with a wide variety of flora and fauna, mighty Himalayas, rivers, deserts, climate and diverse landscape provide attractive opportunities for thrill and adventure activities. It is worthwhile to mention here that tourism sector cannot develop without support of travel. Both are closely linked to each other and hence both the sector should be studied together. The research paper is intended to cover the potential, opportunities and framework for sustainable growth of travel and tourism industry in India. The main source of data will be of secondary type collected through various reliable sources.
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Shah, Syed Haider Ali, Kamran Ali Jamshed, Sharjeel Saleem, Mohsin Bashir, and Ozair Ijaz Kiani. "Sustainable Development in the Hospitality Industry of Europe." In Sustainable Development of Human Resources in a Globalization Period, 49–67. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4981-3.ch004.
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The chapter is about the importance of green human resource management practices opted by the chain hotels and the budget hotels of Europe and their role in sustainability of the hospitality sector of Europe. The tourism of any country relies on the hospitality industry where the main issue is the usage of natural resources on large quantity and less awareness of green initiatives and renewable resources. Most of the hotels globally are owned by family businesses, and in most cases, the owners aren't aware of how many natural resources are being consumed, and how, by adoption of the green initiatives, they can reduce the emission of CO2, excess usage of water and electricity, wastage control, and participate in sustainability of their environment. The authors suggest the immediate need of government involvement and their leading role so that these family business hotels can use renewable energy resources and try to get the title of “eco-friendly” or “green.”
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Kjiroski, Kiril, Smilka Janeska Sarkanjac, Sasho Josimovski, Ljubomir Drakulevski, and Branislav Sarkanjac. "Adoption of the Sharing Economy in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Developing Countries." In Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global Hypercompetition, 549–71. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4645-4.ch026.
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The tourism and hospitality industry has been affected by sharing economy platforms and eco-systems, which constitute disruptive innovations (i.e., innovations that create new markets and value networks while disrupting existing ones and displacing industry incumbents). As the third-largest socioeconomic activity within the European Union (EU), tourism can be considered an engine for economic development, accounting for about 8% between 2007 and 2016, while it has been close to 10% worldwide. This chapter examines the potential of the sharing economy in the tourism and hospitality sectors to disrupt the incumbent tourist regions and proposes sharing economy platforms for the introduction of new destinations in developing countries such as the Republic of Macedonia. It is crucial to examine the issue of the sharing economy from a governance perspective. The authors contend that sharing economy should be a part of a comprehensive national tourism policy based on contemporary governance principles and on experiences of other countries.
Conference papers on the topic "European hospitality sector"
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MOROIANU, Nicolae, and Daniel-Ștefan BELINGHER. "IS THERE A CLASSICAL SOLUTION FOR A CONTEMPORARY PROBLEM?" In International Management Conference. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/imc/2021/05.18.
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This paper presents the connection between the main schools of economic thoughts, which explain the role of governmental intervention in the economy and the importance of wages, as countercyclical stabilizers in an economic system. This work aims to look into the economic European situation during the period which precedes the beginning of the current sanitary crisis, in light of empirical analysis. This analysis uses the corresponding data for two years, 2018 and 2019 and includes a series of activity business sectors considered to be relevant (for instance public administration and HoReCa/hospitality, in the light of the impact the sanitary crisis had upon them). The results of this sectoral analysis have as scientific objective the study of the relationship between the evolution of the staff expenditures in the public administration and the evolution of the Gross Domestic Product, emphasizing the level of correlation between these two. Into the assessed context, the research question remains open: if - in the event of a certain reduction of the staff expenditures from the state budget, in order to reach a balanced budget - this could be a real solution (even if only an emergency solution) since there is a high risk of recession; or even more – could be the trigger factor in driving the Romanian economy to a vicious cycle of austerity.
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Čuić Tanković, Ana, Jelena Kapeš, and Valentina Kraljić. "IMPORTANCE OF SOFT SKILLS AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN TOURISM: VIEWPOINT FROM TOURISTS AND FUTURE TOURISM EMPLOYEES." In Tourism in Southern and Eastern Europe 2021: ToSEE – Smart, Experience, Excellence & ToFEEL – Feelings, Excitement, Education, Leisure. University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20867/tosee.06.12.
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Purpose – Besides possessing professional knowledge, tourism service providers need to have expressed communication skills and soft skills in order to offer a better tourism service. In this paper, the tourism employees' set of soft and communication skills is analysed and compared from two different points of view: tourists on the one hand and future tourism professionals, i.e., tourism students, on the other. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to analyse the importance and differences in the perception of soft skills and communication skills in the tourism and hospitality sector from these two standpoints. Methodology – Two structured questionnaires were used to collect primary data: the first questionnaire aimed at examining the tourists' attitudes regarding the importance of soft and communication skills (N=431), and the second one, at analysing the importance of soft and communication skills from the perspective of future tourism professionals (N=404). The research results are presented using descriptive statistics, the t-test, and the Mann-Whitney U test. Findings – The results indicate that both groups are aware of the importance of communication and soft skills. The statistically significant differences between the tourist sample and the future tourism professional sample were found for all items of the Soft skills factor, with the exception of the items Demonstrating respect, Integrity, and Responsibility. Both samples show similarities with regard to all kinds of Communication skills. Statistically significant differences in the perception of all five Communication skills items from tourists' and future tourism professionals' perspectives were found. Contribution – The paper contributes to the theory by systematizing and analysing the literature and conceptualizing the soft skills and communication skills up to date. Its empirical contribution derives from the examination of data related to the tourist sample and the future tourism employee sample. This different point of view contributes to filling the research gap and opens new future research directions. By examining the most important soft skills and communication skills from these two perspectives, this study provides a practical implication for tourism educators and hospitality managers, revealing the communication skills and soft skills that require further development.