Auflistung Nach Schlagwort "tourism"
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Beach Erosion and Consequential Impacts Due to the Presence of Harbours in Sandy Beaches in Greece and Cyprus
(2015)Harbours with protruding breakwaters that are built on coasts cause alterations to the wave field, which attacks the coastline adjacent to the structures. As a result, sandy beaches often start eroding. Examples from Greece ... -
Considering regional challenges when prioritizing tourism policy interventions: evidence from a Mediterranean community of projects
(2022)Policy-led interventions in the tourism domain should acknowledge the particular challenges of the territories to be implemented to promote desirable impacts. When intervention areas exceed the national level, the indicator ... -
Contribution of natural and socio-cultural resources in tourism development of Mainland Greek prefectures: A typology
(2008)Shortly after the Second World War, the considerable increase in tourist flows to Greece as well as to other countries, created the necessary conditions for tourism to become a major factor of economic and regional ... -
Detecting determinants in tourist seasonality of greece: A binary logistic regression approach
(2021)Tourism seasonality is a complex phenomenon ranked as one of the most important and timeless issues for regional and tourism development. This paper builds on binary logistic regression to examine the determinants of tourism ... -
Determinants of visitor pro-environmental intentions on two small greek islands: Is ecotourism possible at coastal protected areas?
(2012)A relatively under-researched question is whether there is a possibility of influencing environmentally aware tourists regarding ecotourism at destinations that continue to develop under a pattern of mass 'seaside' tourism. ... -
Heat waves occurrence and outdoor workers’ self-assessment of heat stress in slovenia and greece
(2019)Changing patterns of heat waves are part of the global warming effect and the importance of changes is reinforced by their negative impact on society. Firstly, heat waves were analyzed in Brnik (Slovenia) and Larisa (Greece) ... -
High prevalence of hypohydration in occupations with heat stress - Perspectives for performance in combined cognitive and motor tasks
(2018)Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of dehydration in occupational settings and contextualize findings to effects on performance in cognitively dominated tasks, simple and complex motor tasks during moderate and high heat ... -
Measuring the Impact of Greece as a Safe Branding Tourist Destination: Evidence from Spain and Greece
(2022)After the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, many tourist destinations promoted a safe, COVID-free image to attract tourists. The main purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the effect that the image of a place ... -
Network stiffness: A new topological property in complex networks
(2019)Aiming at serving the interdisciplinary demand in network science, this paper introduces a new concept for complex networks, named network stiffness, which is extracted from structural engineering by assuming that a complex ... -
The Nexus of Tourism Spending with Economic Performance: A Panel Data Analysis for the Eurozone Area
(2021)The paper investigates the nexus of tourism spending (i.e. leisure and business tourism spending) with economic performance (i.e. GDP and employment) for the Eurozone countries, during the period 2000- 2018, employing ... -
Occupational heat stress: Multi-country observations and interventions
(2021)Background: Occupational heat exposure can provoke health problems that increase the risk of certain diseases and affect workers’ ability to maintain healthy and productive lives. This study investigates the effects of ... -
Operational and geographical dynamics of ports in the topology of cruise networks: The case of Mediterranean
(2018)Geography is an integral part of the cruise industry since cruises are conducted in the geographical space and thus are submitted to spatial and geomorphological constraints. However, the cruise-literature lacks of research ... -
PEACE and TOURISM: A NEXUS? EVIDENCE from DEVELOPED and DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(2019)The paper empirically examines the nexus between tourism and peace. To do so, it uses in the analysis the recently developed composite Global Peace Index. The sample employed consists of 113 countries and covers the period ... -
The role of sustainable restaurant practices in city branding: The case of athens
(2021)The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the role that restaurant practices play on tourists’ choices and specifically on city branding. It examines whether sustainability practices are considered by customers ... -
Sustainable wine tourism development: Case studies from the Greek Region of Peloponnese
(2020)Even though Greece has had an agriculture-oriented economy for decades, recently it has relied heavily on tourism, which now constitutes 30% of the national GDP. Successful developmental synergies of tertiary and primary ...