The article seeks to explain the importance of environmental indicators of sustainable development in the transitional selective tourism destination, that is, in different types of selective tourism. The survey results reveal that there are statistically significant differences of environmental indicator importance among different types of selective tourism. This new research approach in the field of sustainable tourism development and its results can be a beneficial input for tourism policymakers in the process of identification and creation of an optimal set of measures and activities of protection and preservation of the quality of the environment in selective tourism destination.
Purpose
This paper aims to determine to what extent there is a difference in employees’ perception of abuse in the selective tourism destination in various types of specialized hotels.
Design/methodology/approach
A survey of employees in specialized hotels in the selective tourism destination has the sample of 1,796 cases. Multivariate analysis of variance is used for testing the level of perception’s differences.
Findings
There is a statistically significant difference in the perception of abuse among employees in various types of specialized hotels such as wellness hotels, sport hotels, business hotels and congress hotels.
Research limitations/implications
The results offer employees’ perception of differences about abuse in various types of specialized hotels in the selective tourism destination. There is a possibility of practical usage of methodology for identification of the most often types of abuse in specialized hotels. The identification of abuse is to protect specific social structures such as employees in specialized hotels in the selective tourism destination.
Originality/value
Research could serve as a good example for future practical and theoretical research in the field of abuse and specialized hotels. The paper can be used as a methodological tool to show how to identify the most often types of abuse in specialized hotels in a concrete selective tourism destination.
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