Sustainable Tourism Practices – Mountain vs. Non-Mountain Accommodation Establishments in Bulgaria

Иванов, Станислав; Ivanova, Maya; Iankova, Katia

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“…In terms of renewable energy consumption in the region, Romania ranks fourth, Bulgaria sixth, and Poland ranks last. In Bulgaria the use of alternative energy sources, although profitable, is somehow chaotic, without feasibility studies (Ivanov et al, 2014). Despite the differences in the energy structure of European countries, due to energy security and costs, there is a trend of energy convergence, including for renewable energy (Butnaru et al, 2020), and the unidirectional or bidirectional influence with other factors is extremely important.…”

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“…Matev and Assenova (2012) correlate the deficiencies of Bulgarian tourism with the labor market imbalances, more precisely with the lack of staff, especially specialized staff. Ivanov et al (2014) consider that Bulgarian tourism development is of a core-periphery/enclave type, which hinders the integration of tourism enterprises into the local economy. Also, tourism's economic impact in the destination is quite small because of the use of imported products, expatriate labour and foreign ownership of local accommodation establishments.…”

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“…Also, tourism's economic impact in the destination is quite small because of the use of imported products, expatriate labour and foreign ownership of local accommodation establishments. Ivanov et al (2014) propose a holistic approach to sustainability by considering the interests of the local community (employing local employees, purchasing from local suppliers), tourists (special diet menus, certification of sustainable practices), employees and all other stakeholders. Sustainable practices are expensive because they require huge investments, with positive or only marginal effects.…”

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Causes of Sustainable Tourism Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe. The Case of Three Countries: Romania, Bulgaria and Poland

Haller

Hârșan

2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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Resilience is a concept that reflects the ability to cope with change; sustainability is the ability to preserve the beneficial aspects associated with economic activity. Regarding the last decades, we assess the extent to which the resilience of sustainable tourism depends on labour market, economic growth, energy consumption, and renewable energy consumption. We used Granger causality applied to indicators correlated with sustainability (number of international tourism arrivals, labour force, GDP, total energy consumption, renewable energy consumption) for the period between 1995 and 2014. The time interval could not be extended because of the lack of recent data. The main result is that for Romania, Bulgaria and Poland the resilience of sustainable tourism depends on the indicators we analyzed, all of which playing the role of generator or “cause” for the numbers of arrivals. Bicausality was noticed for Romania and Poland and partial bicausality for Bulgaria because labour force and economic growth are not the causes of total energy consumption and neither are the number of tourists, labour force and economic growth the causes of renewable energy consumption. The resilience of sustainable tourism is dependent on the situation in other fields of activity since the tourism sector does not have the capacity for self-regeneration.

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Causes of Sustainable Tourism Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe. The Case of Three Countries: Romania, Bulgaria and Poland

Haller

Hârșan

2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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“…Probably the hotel managers that responded to the questionnaire and the interviews had greater knowledge and more positive perceptions towards robots compared to those who did not respond. Previous studies that researched Bulgarian hotel managers reported similar low response rates (Ivanov et al 2014Ivanova and Ivanov 2015). Second, the authors used nonprobability sampling due to the lack of a publicly available and comprehensive list of contact details of hotels in the country that would have allowed probability sampling.…”

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Hotel managers’ perceptions towards the use of robots: a mixed-methods approach

Иванов

Seyitoğlu

Markova

2020

Inf Technol Tourism

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Adopting a supply-side perspective, the paper analyses Bulgarian hotel managers’ perceptions of service robots using a convergent mixed methods design. Structured quantitative data were collected from 79 managers using a questionnaire, while interviews were used for the collection of qualitative data from 20 managers. The findings indicate respondents feel that repetitive, dirty, dull, and dangerous tasks in hotels would be more appropriate for robots, while hotel managers would rather use employees for tasks that require social skills and emotional intelligence. The individual characteristics of respondents and the organisational characteristics of the hotels they currently worked in played little role in their perceptions of service robots. The managers considered that robots would decrease the quality of the service and were generally not ready to use robots. Additionally, the interviewees indicated that skilled and well-trained employees were more valuable and more adequate than robots for the hospitality and tourism industry. Theoretical and managerial implications are provided as well.

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“…Policy implications: Adopting pro-environmental practices in Central and Eastern European Countries is difficult and overdue compared to western countries [105]. This is especially beause all proenvironmental measures are considered by managers as too expensive compared to perceived profit [106] and the cost-benefit ratio is of exteme importance here [107]. We have mentioned in the introduction that the lodging industry is one of the most important consumers of resources and polluters of environment, and if we want to make this sector clenear, we must adopt arrangements leading to this.…”

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Visitors’ preferences of renewable energy options in “green” hotels

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Tourism belongs to the industries with significant energy consumption. Visitors as well as hotel managers have, however, a positive attitude towards the responsible use of energy resources. The level of research on visitors' preferences of using different types of renewable energy is low, unlike findings on factual characteristics of conventional and renewable energies. That is why our aim was to assess visitors' preferences of environmentally friendly energy sources in hotels. Preferences of six types of renewable energy-"green" tariff energy, solar panels on the rooftops, solar panels on the ground, heat pumps, AD, wind turbine, were measured at four tourist destinations in the Czech Republic. The positive attitude of tourists towards the selected types of energy sources was confirmed. The highest preferences were found for solar panels installed on the rooftops. A typology of preferences was revealed by cluster analysis and differences between clusters were tested for independent variables. Clusters of visitors with a high and low interest in any type of renewable energy were identified as well as a cluster of visitors with interest in all types apart from solar panels installed on the ground-the visitor's origin was found as the main differentiation factor.

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Sustainable Tourism Practices – Mountain vs. Non-Mountain Accommodation Establishments in Bulgaria

Cited by 11 publications

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Causes of Sustainable Tourism Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe. The Case of Three Countries: Romania, Bulgaria and Poland

Causes of Sustainable Tourism Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe. The Case of Three Countries: Romania, Bulgaria and Poland

Hotel managers’ perceptions towards the use of robots: a mixed-methods approach

Visitors’ preferences of renewable energy options in “green” hotels

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