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COVID-19 put the world and tourism in a situation that had not been predicted even by the most pessimistic forecasts of either theoreticians, or the people directly involved in tourism development. Hence the need of theoretical research of the issue and of didactic and methodological knowledge to disseminate the findings of such research into practice. The impact which crises have on tourism development is the subject of research for a number of Bulgarian and foreign authors. Currently, however, there seems to be ...

Covid-19 had tremendously affected the way how people learn. As a general tendency, the sector of adult education has transformed towards digitization offering a wide range of online adult education programmes, including in geosciences. Due to the Covid-19 related restrictions, educational institutions offering adult education programmes were forced to develop their strategies on how to adapt to the new reality. Within this study, a comparative analysis of three adult education institutions representing Latvia, Po...

Given the demographic situation in Latvia, the decline in the working-age population and the increase in the number of persons with disabilities (PwD), it is necessary to address the employment issues for disabled people. Therefore, it is relevant to integrate the factors affecting the employment of people with disabilities into a coherent system to address the employment problem. Only 47.2% of the working-age population with disabilities were employed in Latvia in 2021, while the employment rate in the general ag...

The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected persons with disabilities in the world; the number of deaths caused by the pandemic has largely affected persons with disabilities as reported by United Nations. However, people with disabilities not only faced greater health impacts, but were also affected by worsening economic situation. Many persons with disabilities were dismissed from work, but many unemployed persons with disabilities stopped looking for work. The pandemic has halted the progress that had...