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The Global Real Estate Transparency Index covers one hundred markets and is based on 186 variables. These indicators are divided into six parts – performance measurement, regulatory and legal frameworks, and governance of listed vehicles, market fundamentals, environmental sustainability and transaction process. The Index is one of the tools that helps to assess and compare markets across the Globe and give an idea of how investable the market is based on its transparency. Because transparency is critical to the o...

Travel agencies and their activities have great potential for developing tourism in Slovakia. Their role is to offer, sell and organize individual tourism services. Travel agencies offer services that meet the needs of customers of all generations. Generation Y gradually gaining in importance in terms of the number of visitors who use the services in tourism. Instead of saving money or establishing family life, the generation Y prefers to travel to different destinations and explore the world. The aim of this pape...

We identified factors that influence the ability and desire of people to engage in physical culture. We studied their impact on the classes of various physical activity forms. We used the data of The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE), 25th wave (2016). The sample size is 1893. There are several Russian and foreign papers about determinants of physical activity. We used it to highlight the necessary factors. We used the multinomial regression for modeling. It helped us to f...

In this paper we address issues relating to marketing and the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, we look into the main marketing concepts, identify the importance of marketing in promoting sales of pharmacy companies and demonstrate the strands used to promote sales and satisfy the needs of consumers in terms of improving their health. In addition, we highlight the development of the pharmaceutical sector in Kosovo, the competition between pharmaceutical producers and distributors, the strategies that firms us...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are a dynamic and changing system that has to be able to quickly adapt to changes in society and the political or business environment. Nowadays, an important factor of competitiveness for Latvian farmers being in the European Union (EU) and working in the global market is available information and the ability to use it quickly and correctly. Besides, designing a future rural development policy has to take into account the presence of other EU Member States and the need to agr...

Incorporating silk to clothing creates value. However, with increasing worldwide environmental concern, the environmental implications of silk production practices should not be disregarded. A relevant part of environmental assessment studies focuses on the final product (i.e.: silk clothes), however, upstream and downstream processes also contribute to total impacts. Therefore, the objective of this study is to present an introductory analysis for conducting a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the silk cocoon produc...

The role of logistics in today's global business is steadily increasing, which is why the coordination and control of logistics activities has become a necessity. The logistics industry provides a significant contribution to the economy through job creation, the creation of national income and the inflow of foreign investment. However, most of the previous empirical research is based on the assessment of the effects of logistics and 3PL operators on business operations and on the effects on the economy, ignoring t...

Assessing archaeological and cultural potential is a key milestone to shaping a complex study that can impact sustainable tourism within a particular geographic area. The study aims to identify monuments capable of meeting the requirements of cultural and tourist activity through: accessibility, originality, seniority, maintenance or level of rehabilitation and promotion. The analyzed geographic area is the historical and geographical province of Romania, Dobrogea. It is a province with a great historical backgrou...

The financial market is the type of market, where the creation and trading of financial assets, such as stocks, debentures, bonds, derivatives, currency, etc., takes place. It plays a crucial role in the allocation of resources in a country's economy; and also acts as an intermediary between depositors and investors through the financial interactions between them. The financial market provides a platform for buyers and sellers to trade assets at a price determined by supply and demand. The targets of this research...

Shrinking is a series of causes that have different effects on the rural areas. These effects are often direct and indirect, immediate or may express in a long-term dimension. The causes of shrinking are diverse: e.g. economic recession, increasing urbanization, changes in environmental conditions, etc. The most commonly shrinkage characteristic is a permanent decline in population. Latvia like several other European countries is losing population. As a monocentric country Latvia has some additional challenge - de...

Oenotourism is the form of tourism practiced especially by connoisseurs, people with a high level of education and a high degree of culture, connoisseurs of the phenomenon and wine enthusiasts. Visits to the wine cellar are complemented by wine tasting in tandem with culinary tasting in a specific ambience. The past of wine and grapes on the territory of Romania is confronted with the history of this country, the wine can be considered a symbol of the Romanians' stability and continuity in these lands. In order to...

Taking into account the fact that the economic growth of the country it is based on the following three elements are important, as follows: the accumulation of capital, which includes investments in fixed assets and human resources; the increase in population and therefore labour force; the progress of technological; it follows that research and innovation have an important role to play in this way. Therefore, the investment in the technology, the costs of the research and development workforce in the field of res...

In this paper, we calculate the consumer surplus of the quadratic demand function p=a?bx1?cx12 and the producer surplus of the quadratic supply function p=d?ex1?gx12 where x is a crisp quantity and a, b, c, d, e, g are polygonal fuzzy numbers. Polygonal fuzzy number is generalization of triangular fuzzy number. This type of fuzzy number was introduced by Baez et al. [A.D. Baez-Sanchez, A.C. Moretti, M.A. Rojas-Medar, On polygonal fuzzy sets and numbers, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 209 (2012) 54-65.]. For a fixed parti...

In the context of the globalization and integration processes development, and changes in the geopolitical position and foreign policy course, which are overlapping on them, the border regions of Russia, Mongolia and China have acquired new opportunities for socio-economic development. Therefore, the study of the barrier and contact functions of the state border impact on the cross-border cooperation and the socio-economic situation of border regions will be a special relevance. The international tourism developme...

Bran castle is a medieval fortress situated in south-eastern Transylvania and the most visited tourist attraction in Romania. Its popularity among international visitors is mainly due to its association with the famous Count Dracula, based on the assumption that this particular castle might be the one that Bram Stoker presents in his novel. The castle has its own history, starting from the 14th century and continuing with its transformation into a summer residence for the royal family of Romania, in the 20th centu...

In the paper with the modern quality management methods using is argued the rationality of rehabilitation equipment production for the patients with the hand and fingers movement disorders basing on the 3D - printing technology. First of all, we start from the descriptions of special needs in rehabilitation for some distributed diseases and shortly characterize the proposed case study (assistive device). Next, we choose the best 3D - printing method for our case study compared with the others, and after that we ma...

In the present-day context, economic growth based on the cluster-oriented approach is considered to be one the most rewarding and effective mechanisms to improve the competitive strength of the regions in the country, as well as stimulate the innovative activity within the advanced social and economic development areas. The industrial cluster sustainable development model would be impossible to be implemented without setting up a definite management mechanism and system. As such, this article outlines the framewor...

In a circular economy we have to rethink, redesign, reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover the waste through a circular economy which is generating a valuable chain between raw material producer and consumer. Economic circular models could be shaped into short cycles, long cycles, cascades, pure cycles, dematerialized cycles and production on demands. Using these models and adapt them for agriculture we save a lot of resources, being able to decouple substantially production by resource extraction. An agri-food syste...

Image is a key factor in attracting first-time visitors, and the environment of a destination plays an essential role in their decision to re-visit it. The aim of the study is to ascertain the moderating effect that cognitive and affective components have on the overall image and relationship with destination loyalty. Twenty-four distinct constructs are identified, five of which are about the cognitive aspect, eleven are about the affective aspect, five are about the overall image of Bulgaria as a spa and wellness...

Cuba is one of the fastest developing tourist regions in the Caribbean, this dynamic growth in tourist traffic is caused by the increased investment in the tourism infrastructure. Since the '90s a trend in the tourist infrastructure can be observed, where building all-inclusive hotels in the coastal region has become increasingly popular. In Cuba's case those were usually closed areas – tourist enclaves, where only foreign tourists and cuban staff could reside. Thus the tourist regions were located in isolated pla...

Hotel service in its essence is a dynamic process, stimulating appliance of various technological innovations, which in turn create convenience and real experience to hotel guests during their stay. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality, mobile applications, digital key and kiosks, voice assistants, chatbots, robots and many more modern technologies play essential role in achieving competitive advantages in the hotel industry. Their effectiveness and appropriate implementation rely entirely on end users’ per...

This article considers the digital transformation of agriculture, its development and links to the digital information economy of the state. The relevance of the article is due to the growing importance of the digital economy on a global scale and its impact on all spheres of the state economy. The purpose of the article is to analyze the current state of digitization of agriculture as well as to develop questions about the development of the information digital economy and the introduction of information and comm...

At present an economic management of any administrative region (territory with fixed legal boundaries) is impossible without modern technologies of spatial analysis. Administrators of power structures use every opportunity to ensure that the management of the region is based on the automated processing of spatial data and particularly on remote sensing data. First of all, the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are used such as data collection and systematization, automated analysis, compilatio...

This study aims to explore the main economic trends in the performance of the agricultural sector of ten new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) after joining the EU in 2004 – 2007. The study is carried out applying the methods of economic analysis including trend test methods and a comparative analysis. The authors have used data that are comparable across the EU countries and have been processed according to the unified methodology of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA). Specifically, the ...

Health tourism as a niche has emerged and has rapidly grown to become a very significant and promising industry. In the European Union, health tourism market is definitely a new and strong trend, with total revenues of 46.9 billion EUR, which is equal to 4.6% of all tourism revenues and 0.33% of the EU-28 GDP in 2014. The purpose of this paper is to describe main attributes and to analyze some of the health tourism challenges in Italy and Croatia. In addition, the financial effects of these health tourism markets ...

This paper explores the role of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) in assessing the evolution of agricultural holdings and their contribution to the national economy in Latvia. Although a significant number of previous studies performed a statistical, econometric and comparative analysis of figures extracted from the FADN database, there is still a dearth of research on the importance of the FADN and its integral elements for the provision of detailed and reliable information required for sustainable deve...

The impact of the food sector on achieving the sustainable development goals is increasingly debated worldwide amid growing climate change effects and on the background of a lack of quickly responses on mitigating them. Initially, the state of the art is quantitatively analyzed for emphasizing the scientific evolution on food consumption in the context of sustainability and the main themes discussed by researchers. Further, several indicators on food consumption expenditures, daily calorie supply, emissions, waste...

Nowadays solo traveling is an emerging market in tourism industry. It is relatively new type of tourism which forms express the communities’ will to have entire disposal of their choice and freedom. The purpose of the current study is to assess the available resources for developing solo tourism in Bulgaria. The used methodology consists in application of Hartmut Bossel’s system-based approach where the destination is divided into three large subsystems - human, support and natural. Based on the results from a con...

Every business subject strives to achieve the highest possible prosperity and profitability of its business in connection with the fulfillment of its business mission and achievement of the set strategic goals. Successful sales of products and services to customers are a prerequisite for achieving the set goals. Customers are one of the key to future business development, so it is very important for enterprises to pay attention to customer relationship management. Customer Relationship Management is a process of i...

Varna may have great potential but the city could not still attract enough conference tourists. The aim of the study is to estimate the factors influencing the attractiveness of Varna as a destination for conference tourism. The sampling group of the study comprises a total of 53 experts and specialists in the field of tourism. For the purpose of the study, a questionnaire has been designed to gather primary information about experts’ perceptions of Varna as a conference tourist destination. To assess the potentia...

We need to think that an ecosystem is working for us all time, proving a constant flow of resources as economical input, sustain life and all necessary condition for the agricultural activity, creating a mechanism that is wider than our comprehension. An agricultural ecosystem is producing food, fuels, non-food products. This activity is depending on the ecosystem service, by water, climate, soil fertility, carbon sequestration, biodiversity as genetic reservoir. Usually the connection between agriculture and ecos...

Pesticides are intended for the control of pests, weeds, pathogens and other factors that cause damage to plants. Pesticides include substances to combat these harmful organisms, but also substances such as growth regulators, desiccants, vegetable and fruit cleaning substances, and substances applied during storage and transportation of production. The use of these pesticides for developed countries is a current concern. The purpose of this study was to conduct an analysis of pesticides used in Romania during the ...

Environmental pollution, adverse spawning conditions, as well as intensive fishing and other factors have negative influence on fish stock condition, thereby causing fishery enterprises problems to plan their activities in long term. This causes significant consequences not only for the Latvian fishery sector in general, but also for the development of coastal areas and national socio-economic growth. In the modern global economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions for economic recovery. The c...

Research over the past 20 years has shown the enormous role of tourism in the economies of most countries. First of all, it allows solving problems of stimulating social development of regions. Tourism has a stimulating effect on such sectors of the economy as transport, communications, trade, construction, agriculture, production of consumer goods and contributes to the development of practically all sectors of the economy [1]. In the late 70s of the twentieth century, ecological tourism becomes one of the most p...

Today in Ukraine, the issue of organization of recreation becomes a priority issue not only in the physiological-psychological aspect, but also as a socially-organized function of people's lives. It provides an opportunity for an integrated combination of recreation, tourism and excursions, in order to promote the development of tourist excursions. Natural, cultural-historical and socio-economic resources of the region, as well as the presence of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund are important fac...

Marketing of organic food products is a topic of interest taking into account the upward trend of these products globally. Promoting eco-products is an approach to the increasing demand for high quality consumer products. Organic marketing is important because it can help protect the environment and preserve biodiversity, increase food security and can contribute to sustainable development of agriculture. The paper aim was to analyze consumer preferences in southern Romania concerning organic agri-food products. I...

The drinks sector has increasingly diversified lately on the basis of complying with the consumers’ demands as well as on the necessity of adopting sustainable practices imposed by the resource depletion and climate change challenges. This research aims to present an overview of the drinks market at Romanian level since 2013 by considering also the sustainability component. Two methods are applied for a better analysis of this subject: the bibliometric analysis and the statistical analysis of the drinks market. In...

The article presents logistical aspects of the economic security system. The determinants of economic security are presented, and the monitoring and hazard indicators of the analysed security are analysed. The role and tasks of logistics in shaping the country's economic security as well as a comprehensive strategy for improving economic security are presented. Analyses and research revealed that it is important both cognitively and for economic practice to learn the mechanisms of efficient logistics. Logistical p...

This study aims to clarify the ways in which the authorities involved in place brand management choose to use new technologies to communicate their online identity, within a broader context, defined by circular economy. We focused on a methodology repository, applying an already validated instrument, which could generate standardized and comparable results, from previous research, addressing the online identity of place brands issue. However, exploring contextualization, which is now mandatory for place brands in ...

Marketing communications mix consists of eight major modes of communication – advertising, direct marketing, events and experiences, interactive marketing, personal selling, public relations and publicity, sales promotion, and word-of-mouth marketing – but a fully integrated communications mix also includes email marketing, partnerships / promotions, and social media. The most powerful touch-points are Internet, mobile phones, social media, and TV. Innovative media such as interactive video, mobile developments, s...

Diasporas nowadays consists of economic migrants who are belive to have the potential for chanelling financial and social transfers as well as technology and qualifications. Remittances sent by migrants make the main source of external income, not only often bigger than the foreign help but also direct foreign investment. Money transfers make the stable source of funds reaching directly families and make the poverty smaller. Dominican Republic is constantly percieived as a country of a mass emigration to United St...