Abstract Croatia as EU accession country is divided into three Nomenclature des unites territoriales statistiques (NUTS 2) regions which are quite different from twenty one official administrative Croatian Counties. Furthermore, Croatian Counties show significant economic and social disproportions. These disproportions are in the focus of the extended on-going scientific research. The focus of ...

This paper focuses on the orientation behaviour of pedestrian city tourists. It explores the importance of landmarks for pedestrian orientation and shows the results of a study conducted 2005/06 in Vienna. The hypothesis of the study is that better orientation and guiding systems will lead to more and longer trips on foot. Individual tourists combine public transport with long walking distances...

Three experiments investigated how perceived foreign threats to the United States can influence Americans' endorsement of assimilation and multiculturalism as models for foreign and domestic intergroup relations. The initial study, conducted during the 6-month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11), discovered that a diverse group of Americans preferred assimilation as ...

We examine the relationship between the degree of foreign ownership and performance of recipient firms, using of panel of 21,582 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We find that joint-ventures perform better than wholly foreign owned and purely domestic firms. Although productivity and profitability initially rise with foreign ownership, they start declining once foreign ownership reaches ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions millennial generation towards Kintamani as a tourism destination from three aspects, namely attractions, facilities and accessibility. As qualitative research, data analysis was carried out in descriptive manner. sample 99 people, determined by Slovin method, consisting 89 domestic tourists 11 foreign tourists. results showed that Tourism ...

Whether and what type of the lobbying-induced trade policies can improve the domestic welfare? We show that as compared to the case of no lobbying and the case of domestic lobbying, the domestic-foreign lobbying achieves the lowest tariff and may also realize the highest welfare for the domestic country. Our results suggest that the domestic-foreign lobbying may contribute to a freer trade in t...

Security and protection demands in tourism industry are very high due to the vulnerability of its infrastructure in light of security challenges and threats. Actual threats appear in the form of endangering the values that compose a train of products and services in tourism – from the moment of buying/selling a package tour, transfer of passengers and luggage to their destination, to stay in ho...

positive effects of tourism due to social, cultural and economic interest in becoming the first industry in the world, so that many countries and areas are by creating suitable infrastructure exploitation of the benefits sought the industry. for most of these countries an important source of tourism business, income, job creation and foreign exchange is considered. for this reason, to achieve t...

When a country interacts with foreign countries, it exposes itself to foreign culture and behaviour. This exposure could in‡uence the domestic culture through imitation or adaptation in the same way as individuals tend to be in‡uenced in their behaviour by the groups that they frequent. This could carry over to business culture in general and the corruption culture speci…cally. Therefore, the m...