... (IRT) components were applied in the tourism sector. Design/methodology/approach The data were gathered from 402 tourists who utilized MPS for the first time to book their vacation. In a longitudinal study, an online questionnaire was used to contact clients of several travel businesses to predict...

... of sports entrepreneurship opportunities, sports tourism, market opportunities, entrepreneurship infrastructures and entrepreneurship-oriented environment in the development of sports entrepreneurship infrastructure in Iran. The credibility and efficiency of the proposed model for analysis of sports...

...Davood Ghorbanzadeh; Rafina Rafkatovna Zakieva; Mariya Kuznetsova; Aras Masood Ismael; Alim Al Ayub Ahmed Purpose The role of social media in the tourism industry growth cannot be ignored, because today the internet and social media platforms are one of the most popular information channels used...

...Pasquale Del Vecchio; Giustina Secundo; Giuseppina Passiante Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how customer knowledge management (CKM) can opportunely support the process of value creation from Big Data. Focusing on tourism as a knowledge-intensive industry, the paper tries to contribute...

...Sonja Sibila Lebe and Matjaž Mulej; Katja Crnogaj; Miroslav Rebernik; Barbara Bradac Hojnik; Doris Omerzel Gomezelj Purpose – The tourism sector is heavily dependent on entrepreneurship and cannot survive in the long run if it is not both sustainable and entrepreneurial at the same time...

...Dr Sonja Sibila Lebe, Prof Matjaž Mulej; Mirjana Pejic Bach; Jovana Zoroja; Marjana Merkac-Skok Purpose – Tourism has become one of the world's major industries measured in terms of turnover, the number of employees and foreign currency earnings, having at the same time a huge impact...

...Sonja Sibila Lebe and Matjaž Mulej; Marko Ropret; Tadeja Jere Jakulin; Borut Likar Purpose – This paper aims to analyse whether and how the Development Plan and Policies of Slovenian Tourism (SiPlan) could be improved systematically and systemically, enabling more comprehensive management...

...Dr Sonja Sibila Lebe and Prof. Matjaž Mulej; Zdenka Zenko; Valentina Sardi Purpose – Socially responsible innovative behaviour should reduce the incidence of one-sidedness in the behaviour of persons employed or active in tourism organizations. People with disabilities are often poorly integrated...

... Wirksworth (NOW) & Ecclesbourne Valley Rail (EVR). The researchers designed and implemented a pilot study that explored the potential of a small, yet attractive and active, market town to diversify and regenerate using tourism. This project, which has been funded by the UK Higher Education Innovation...

... between virtual communities discussing tourism (e.g. www.TripAdvisor.com ) and the SNS (e.g. www.facebook.com, www.twitter.com). While the former seems to be a growing source of information, the latter acts rather more in a social context. In this section, we present the theoretical bases...

... be judged only in context of a problem and the aims of researches. For illustration, the methodology is applied to a tourism system, which possesses the typical properties of global and local organisations. A verbal description of a tourism problem is followed by a causal loop diagram, which helps...

...Matjaz Mulej; Sonja Sibila Lebe; Borut Milfelner Purpose To work out an innovative organisation model for tourism destinations in rural areas. Design/methodology/approach By outlining the problematic of tourism development in rural areas and implementing the concept of network management...

... for the entire period to which the model is applied. The parameter estimation indicates the extent to which the defined model is acceptable as a model of future regional economic and tourism growth. Findings Providing the trends of past are unacceptable in the future period, the author proposes the use...