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Tourism is a growth generator element of functional complexity of the territorial systems with touristic function, an important part for the economic development of these resorts, but it also represents the space where the economic crisis can generate major imbalances in their evolution. The study aims to identify adaptive patterns of territorial systems with touristic function after the start of the global economic crisis. The methodology of this study consists in the creation of an economic database at administr...

Deforestation is a contemporary challenge manifested in extensive areas, requiring both quantitative analysis through established and qualitative methods by applying fractal analysis methods. Using GIS methods for processing post-processed satellite imagery, the loss area during 2000-2016 were determined and prepared as images necessary for fractal analysis. The fractal methods used were the Local Connected Fractal Dimension (LCFD), the Tug-of War Lacunarity and the Fractal Fragmentation Index (FFI). Methods that ...

The main attention in the article is paid to a problem of public transport along suburban routes tariff transportations calculation. Research represents system approach, which is describing harmonization interests of the suburban passenger traffic market participants. The existent methods analysis of tariff formation for public transport services is conducted in this paper. Nowadays these methods do not reflect interests of all market participants and also do not take into account all influencing factors. The nece...

The aim of the article is to explore real factors of the economic transformation in some Arab countries – exporters of natural resources, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) and the Republic of Sudan, as the concrete examples of limitations, which influence on the potential of development of the transitional economies of the Western Asian and African states. Among the factors of economic development and growth there are not only factors of supply, in the first instance raw materials, capital a...

The economic activity through its correlative system is under the direct influence of human capital as a determinant. Tourism as an economic activity has great potential for transformation. This potential is due to the upward trend, together with other economic activities, to the attention of the specialists, who are dealing with the irreparable destruction of the environment. In this sense, tourism and the environment have been a matter of discussion for the scientists of the past two decades, which led to the fo...

With time, the localities within the Carpathian and Sub-Carpathian space of Romania have changed their functionality because of several historical and social events that took place. The study aims to highlight the transformations that have been observed over time, explaining the situation of the last few years and the trends that could favour the local economic situation. Thus, the research has been based on the analysis of the documents that rightfully proclaimed the establishment of the locality, on the analysis...

Business creating and developing is a complex, multifaceted and risky task. One of the ways to solve such tasks is to create an internal control system. Internal control should be exercised at all the levels of enterprise management. The current state of this issue does not provide clear recommendations for solving the problem, and this leads to an increase of the cost and tax burden. The organization of internal control is complicated due to the vagueness of the wording of the content of this type of control in t...

Regional property complex transformations in different territories have several distinguishing features since they follow different patterns and result into a particular structure of a region’s economy. No matter how exactly property ownership transformation took place in a given region, specific features of it would be indicated by structural shifts between the private and public sectors. The shifts determine vector and dynamics of social and economic development of a region, thus stipulating the role of both pub...

The purpose of this report is to trace the dynamics of room prices in the main hotel types in Bulgaria, which occur as a result of the changing market situation (conjuncture) during the period 2010-2016. The 4 star coastal and mountain recreational hotels are investigated by categories, seasons and weekly periods. The method of average values and price indices is used as well as the method of non-standardized interview with hotel managers. The results of the survey lead to the conclusion that hoteliers in Bulgaria...

Background: The aim of this article is to discuss selected concepts of establishing and transforming business models and then to present the business model transformed with their use for a selected sector. Method: Selected methods of linear and algorithmic designing used in the process of organization creation and strategic plans establishment were analyzed. They were referred to the specific economic sector, covering both the tourist services and health resort treatment in health resorts. Results: To illustrate t...

The spa resorts from Romania recorded after 2000 specific sectoral dynamics determined by the lack of a strategic reference framework and very low private investments. The study aims to highlight the patterns of structural evolution of spa resorts from Romania, based on a consistent statistical support. On this line, a database was created starting from the classification of activities in the national economy (NACE) for the period 2000-2016. Based on this statistical support, detailed analyzes were carried out reg...

“Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad took part in a large scale monitoring study that focused on the university graduates all-over the country. The national study was performed for 18 universities targeting the graduates and their insertion on the labour market. A national database was set-up and data-processing was performed, involving the entire amount of data. After consolidating the results, the central database was split-up and delivered to the universities for their own data-processing and conclusions. This pap...

Background: Ski resort is a kind of tourism destination and can be defined and understood in many different ways. The common feature of all ski resorts is dominant role of the offer for winter sports (alpine and cross-country skiing, snowboarding) participants in the destination product. However ski resorts are diverse due to different natural and legal conditions, their size, technical equipment, age and other factors. The concept of community and corporate models of ski resorts is an attempt to explain that diff...

The actual problem of the present is the overcoming of global inequality. This article discusses current theoretical models that seek to explain the uneven pace of economic growth. The aim of the research is to study the causes of the uneven economic development of the countries of the world and the proposed ways to make away economic backwardness. The research method is a comparative analysis of the concepts of the new institutional economic theory and the Other Canon on the origins of wealth and poverty of moder...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the development of luxury hotel industry in Romania in the last more than thirty years. The research methodology consists of the inventory of the accommodation capacity of Romania, of the luxury hotels built in this period and the analysis of assessment methods and identification of hotel strategy types for this market (hotel chain penetration, formation of the new brands). According to the new trends in luxury travel industry, the research aims at analyzing the possibilit...

Clusters through their structure (the "four-leaf clover" model: members of the Business and Research-Development-Innovation areas, Authorities and Catalysts) play an important role in the innovation eco-system as accelerators for innovation and competitive value chains development of value in the smart specialization priorities. The services provided to the cluster members, especially aimed at creating synergies between science and research through the collaboration between the business environment and the RDI bas...

In today’s world, where we can witness the ubiquitous implementation of information and communication technologies along with the inevitable digitalization of business processes, the role of intangible assets, of intellectual property and intellectual resources for achieving sustainable competiveness is growing in importance. The aim of the present article is to contribute to the identification of the elements of intellectual capital in trade under the established fields in the economic literature: human, organisa...

The problem of shaping and functioning safety culture and its role in the operations of construction enterprises has been undertaken in the paper. The ways of defining safety culture and the safety culture assessment model in the company have been presented. Risk and safety have been presented as cultural values. Social factors conditioning the conduct and motivation to organize safe working conditions have been incorporated into the safety culture notion, and the development of positive safety culture is now rega...

The paper presents the situation of investments in the hotel and restaurant industry, from the eight development regions of Romania, during 2008-2016. The data used in the study was taken from several sources of statistical data of various organisms in the field, and then they were sorted and hierarchized for further processing. The purpose of the processing was to highlight the level of investment in the hotel and restaurant industry in each development region of Romania and to compare the turnover of the sector ...

The purpose of this work is to study the economic phenomenon "city - entrepreneur" and to justify the parameters of its identification in relation to the realities of the modern Russian economy. The main method of research is the analysis of statistical indicators. The authors propose quantitative parameters that allow identifying the city-entrepreneurs in the Russian economic space: the level of economic diversity and services; the availability of human capital: the level of urban environment and living condition...

In the development strategies and programmes of the Russian Federation as a whole and of individual regions, tourism is recognized as an important tool for sustainable rural development. The popularity of rural tourism is largely due to the low cost of recreation and the possibility of recreation and rehabilitation in certain climatic conditions, but its development requires the search for new forms of organization and the creation of appropriate conditions, and in the first place – infrastructure. The aim of the ...

In this article the institutional environment of the banking system of the BRICS countries are analyzed. There is analysis of the key statistical characteristics of the banking sector, the main trends in its development. Also article reveals the characteristics of the external institutional environment. The purpose of our study is to test the following hypothesis: factors of the external institutional environment affect the banking system. The subject of the study is the BRICS countries banking system. The period ...

Nowadays, companies deal with a dynamic process of adapting economic sectors to the EU requirements and conditions as well as to internal domestic regulations in terms of corporate sustainable activities, including identifying, measuring, estimating and disclosing various information. Ongoing economic changes determine conditions under which today’s business is conducted also in the area of municipal management, and impose the necessity to implement innovative organizational, financial and accounting solutions. Th...

The article examines correlation between the existing principles of state competition policy and innovative economic development. A perfect competition model has been currently adopted as an ideal sample of the commodities market state, being characterized by a sufficient number of sellers and buyers, when none of them can decisively influence market prices. Consequently, countries endeavor to bring real markets conditions closer to this ideal state by competitive policy, that occur in dedicated state effort to re...

Persons with disabilities, constituting one of the largest minorities in the world, experience a difficult situation on the labour market and are particularly vulnerable to marginalization resulting from unemployment. In Poland, similarly to other countries, persons with disabilities are characterized by the significantly low activity on the labour market. They are more frequently unemployed and less often take up work comparing to people without disabilities. The survey and the subject literature review carried o...

At present, one of the main cardinal factors is the question of economic governance and the sustainability of business entities. The issue of financial and economic analyzes contributes significantly to decisions in the field of corporate management. One of the essential dispositions of each manager is an understanding of financial theory. The aim of the contribution is to point out the sustainability of the company's performance, with an accent on economic performance and indicators of the company's economic perf...

The purpose of this study was to estimate Lithuania’s and EU-15 countries group real GDP per capita growth rates and to evaluate possible convergence scenarios. The real GDP per capita (in purchasing power standards) data for EU-15 and Lithuania for a period of 2005-2016 were employed to establish comparative average annual GDP per capita growth rates. Three possible convergence scenarios were analyzed: “As it Were”, i.e. if the average annual growth rates remain at the current levels, “Speeding Up”, i.e. if the c...

The article considers the calculation of recreational capacity of the territory along a certain route"". We take into account that there is still no clear understanding of the term "recreational forests". Therefore it is necessary to distinguish clearly between the real recreational woods intended for rest and, consequently, convenient, and also the woods which are only partially carrying out recreational function. We consider one of the types of forest recreational forest tourism-a fascinating, useful and enjoyab...

The main question which the author of the report would like to answer is this: "Is a freelancer a man of the future of work?». There are methodological difficulties in the study of freelancing. First, in determining the concept of "freelance". Second, when selecting principles and methods for quantifying the participating workers in a given form of employment. We will be able to overcome these difficulties only partially, using a comparative approach, historical method, analysis of statistical data and a systemati...

A wide variety of scientific sources and mass media maintain that at present the loss of people, both in the whole world and in individual countries, has taken on noticeable proportions, which are difficult to conceal or leave unattended by society. In this context, it is sufficient to give the following comments: "statistics show: every three minutes on Earth one person disappears without a trace"; "Every year in Germany, more than 100,000 children and young people are reported missing"; "According to official st...

In modern society, labor becomes a complex and diverse action. The forms of labor are changing, and it`s boundaries are eroding. In these conditions it is important to rethink the economic understanding of labor. The main goal of this article is to formulate special aspects of labor as of a non-economic action. To achieve the goal the author analyzed such notions as “economic action”, “non-economic action”, and “labor” as they exist in scientific literature. It was also required to find out the distinction between...

The analysis of foreign experience in the implementation of projects for sustainable development economy has shown that in almost all countries the greatest number of innovation projects are carried out in the construction and energy sectors, while very strict requirements for energy efficiency level are imposed on the facilities The accumulated array of analytical data in this field is definitely insufficient to obtain clear and unambiguous conclusions about the relationship between the energy efficiency of the b...

This work is devoted to the topical issue for Armenia: the development of tourism by identifying the factors influencing the satisfaction of Russian tourists visiting Armenia, as well as factors influencing their intention to revisit the destination and its recommendation to friends. According to statistics from the past nine years, tourism in Armenia gained new pace of development. Among all other countries and regions, the leader in the number of tourists visiting Armenia is Russia. Also, the two countries signe...

Today in Russia an independent system of qualifications replacing tariff-qualification reference book is being introduced. In foreign countries such systems already exist and run successfully, but in Russia they have appeared relatively recently. Therefore the implementation of an independent system of qualifications involves certain difficulties. An independent system of qualifications consists of four elements: a professional standard, an independent assessment of qualifications, a professional-public accreditat...

Modern institutional theory demonstrates astute attitude to studying transactional costs. The key explanation of transactional costs will include the costs, which the economic entity will bear while complying with the conditions of economic exchange. This is one of the guiding reasons why institutional theory of economics is often referred to as the economic theory of transactional costs. The real volume of transactional costs in the Global economy is getting increasingly high. Economic entities are facing the nec...

Migration of the population is one of the most important demographic processes. It has a significant impact on the change in the structure of the population, and as a result - on the overall economic indicators of the country's development. Transformational processes in the Russian economy are responsible for qualitative changes in the labor market. These changes affect both demand and supply of labor. Increasing the efficiency of costs for hiring new employees and stimulating their labor productivity are one of t...

The article reviews the questions of development of food security in information aspect and in the context of information economy. The importance of the article is conditioned by advancing development of information and digit economy and its influence over all the state economy. The goal of the article is to address the issue of food security within the development of information economy and implementation of information and communication technologies. The article reports in depth of food security as the foundatio...

The features of state utopia implementation are analyzed on the basis of Soviet socialism conceptions. The transformation of social-economic and philosophical-political foundations of state is disclosed through the phenomena of property and freedom. The research is based on systemic, comparative-historical and statistical approaches. The research objective is to study the interrelation between the socioeconomic and the political-visionary spheres of functioning of the first socialist state, and to reveal the cause...

The present paper addresses the subject of developing sustainable tourism in the Black Sea basin in conjunction and cooperation with the European Commission's concerns on maritime tourism in this part of Europe. The first part of the paper discusses the theoretical framework, and defines the concepts of "sustainable development" and "sustainable tourism" as well as describes the main milestones leading to a sustainable development of tourism. It continues with the presentation of the six coastal countries Bulgaria...

Tourist information centers play the role of an important subject in the development of tourism in the destination. They exist in all countries with developed tourism and therefore have their foundation in Slovakia as well. The aim of the paper is to explore and compare the environment, the offer of regional products and employees' access in tourist information centers in Western, Central and Eastern Slovakia. In order to fulfill the aim of the paper we have made in the months from January to April 2018 survey in ...

Latvia has defined the smart specialization strategy in national level since 2013. The planned outcome - increased capacity of innovations - includes the share of high and medium-high technology sectors in the export; number of researchers employed in the private sector; increase in manufacturing productivity and share of innovative enterprises. Smart Specialization Strategy measures are tied to the Latvian Sustainable Development Strategy until 2030, the Spatial Development Perspective and the National Developmen...

Previous research on the application of innovations in Kosovo have shown that businesses and other institutions have a low level of creating something new. Despite some efforts to change this situation still innovations remain a challenge in Kosovo despite the benefits they bring. This paper discusses the challenges the problems and benefits of small innovations. From the research on the vision for economic development for the future in Kosovo, economic development is focused on innovative opportunities for each s...

Sustainable development of the socium and economics, balanced interaction with the environment - these global issues are most relevant today. The world community is forming an understanding that these issues should be in the priority as the vital goals of all countries in the world. The article shows the implementation of the green financing policy in Mongolia at the present stage. Its positive impact on the socio-economic development of Mongolia and international cooperation with its geographical neighbors - Russ...

The article discussed the specifics of the functioning of the typical mechanisms of re-gional self-regulated organizations to support small businesses in the economy of the Russian Federation. In order to improve the mechanism for the activities of the regional self-regulatory organization to support small business, more complete implementation of the system of statutory functions for the development of small businesses in the re-gion, improve the level of sustainability to fluctuations of the external environment...

In terms of natural resources and existing potential, balneo-tourism represents one of the main forms of tourism in Romania, that can be even further developed with proper regulations, investments and promotion. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness upon relevant aspects that can help to promote more efficiently this form of tourism. Along with the concepts related to the addressed topic, this paper presents the results of a qualitative research that aimed at identifying the appropriate action directions i...

The paper discusses the technological complex of wastewater treatment of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. Based on the review of the main modeling methods of discrete-continuous chemical and engineering processes, it substantiates expediency of using the theory of Petri nets (PN) for modeling the process of wastewater treatment of petrol stations. PN enables to simulate discrete parallel asynchronous processes, to get a graphical representation of the network, to describe the system at different abstractio...

The relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that globalization of world economics and participation in this process of Russia mean an ever closer intertwining of national economies. This fact promotes more intensive the development of countries on the basis of international economic activity. The study focused on the use and implementation the most common and major index of globalization KOF (Konjunktur for schungsstelle) in world economy. The aim of this study is sensitivity rate analysis of globalization...

In this paper the negative social and economic consequences of raising the minimum wage for the regional economy on the example of Krasnoyarsk Region are discussed. It is shown that in Krasnoyarsk Region regional coefficients and northern wage surcharges have been established, and according to the Constitutional Court Decree No. 38-P of 07.12.2017 employers are obliged to charge them in excess of the minimum wage. As a result, the social guaranteed minimum wages in the region is even higher factually than the subs...

Film tourism as one of the new tourism trends is becoming more popular between the visitors of some countries. This form of tourism may consist of some other forms including visiting the film locations, film studios or film festivals. Moreover, some film locations worldwide might attract high amount of visitors and generate higher return. The Game of Thrones movie is supposed to generate 10 % out of all visitors in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where the film was shot. The article deals with the most famous film locations w...

The purpose of the study is to analyze the common and the different features in development of the large agricultural farms and the place of these farms in the agriculture of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The economic analysis methods and techniques, especially the time series and a comparative method was used in the study. The Lorenz Curve was created for the evaluation of the income differences in the groups of various agricultural farms. The Eurostat and FADN data for 10 CEE was used, coveri...