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STRATEGY OF TOURISM IN CROATIA FOR COMPETING ON THE EUROPEAN TOURISM MARKET
Get PDFThe paper deals with the problems that have arisen due to the rapid development of traveling motives in the world tourism market. Croatia, as Mediterranean tourism country still does not have a clear solution of alternative tourism offer. There are other problems that are generated by the growing number of tourists and changes in tourism consumption. In the paper author have demonstrated the results of influences of trends in the tourist demand side. The changes in the tourist demand have resulted in the change in the concept of mass type of tourism. Such trends have influenced the emergence of specialized producers and offers of typical Croatian products.Strategy, Tourism, Croatia, Alternative tourism, European market.
Sharia and Democracy: Efforts to Synergize the Demands of Faith with the legal System in Indonesia
Get PDFSince the fall of the New Order's authoritarian regime, Indonesia as a country with the largest Muslim population in the world is often praised as a country that has proven that Islam, democracy and modernity can grow and develop together. However, democracy in Indonesia does not escape the challenges associated with the return of the spirit of religion in political life. The problem is the return of religion to politics – and to public life in general – is a serious
challenge to the rule of democratically enacted law and the civil liberties that go with it. Islamic activism or Islamism although they use freedom provided by democracy, actually rejects the principles of democracy and human rights which they see as contrary to the sharia and the absolute sovereignty of God. In the past thirteen years there has been a tendency for rising aspirations for Indonesia to be regulated by sharia law. The purpose of this research is to look for the meaning of sharia and democracy for Muslims, the theological foundations for Muslim to support democracy, and the challenges and alternative solutions that can be offered so that sharia can be transformed to Indonesia legal system. By assuming that sharia has a purpose and that Islamic law can change, evolve in line with developments and challenges of the times, the author argues that the synergy between sharia and democracy can occur in Indonesia as long as Muslims in Indonesia can accept plurality in understanding the sharia and are not bound to one model in understanding sharia. The author believes that sharia can be applied in democratic countries such as Indonesia, because the purpose of the sharia and the purpose of the state are the same, namely the achievement of social justice for all without discrimination
Croatian Tourism Offer in the War and After War Period
No full textCroatia is aspiring to becoming a member of the European Union. Membership in the EU and market economy will result in a competitive economy able to fit into the global market competition with a stable growth of the standard of living for everybody. Tourism is a significant source of revenue for the Croatian economy. Work provides an overview of the Croatian tourism offer. The aim of this paper is to review the situation in the Croatian tourism before the war and after war period. The purpose is to point out that tourism has a great revitalization power in the toughest conditions. Croatian tourism has experienced a recovery. However, it is still facing problems. The paper is divided into 4 parts. First section covers an overview of the status of Croatian tourism, while the second two sections cover pre war and after war period of Croatian tourism. Results are given in the last section with recommendations for Croatian tourism sector and activities in the futur
PERSPECTIVES OF REGIONAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CROATIA
Get PDFCroatia has a set of cultural, historical and natural attractions and also has a great tourism potential needed to be supported by the sustainability concept of tourism development. Current Local Agenda 21 processes emphasize a cooperative approach to identifying the community’s goals for tourism. Article present example of sustainable regional project in Croatian tourism on the Town of Rovinj. In spite of difficulties involved in trying to find an acceptable definition for sustainability in Croatia, the example present how society develops along sustainable principles.Tourism, Croatia, Town of Rovinj, Sustainable development, Regional tourism, Attractions.
Special evidentiary actions in the context of judicial control of their application in practice in the Republic of Croatia
No full textThe focuse of this paper is the institute of special evidentiary actions, its application in practice, and the question to what extent the content component of the investigating judge's order must be justify in order to respond to the challenge of the standard of legal predictability. Proving the existence of certain forms of crime, with elements of conspiracy and latency, would be significantly hampered without the use of special evidentiary actions. The complexity of this challenge is raised to a higher level as it involves certain encroachment into individual human rights that are proclaimed as the highest constitutional values and are the subject of numerous international conventions and documents. Special evidentiary actions are taken latently, or secretly, because otherwise the realization of their very nature and purpose would be thwarted. In the light of this, the main guarantee of the protection of the defendants rights, as well as other persons, from excessive interventions into their fundamental rights lies precisely in the role of the court. The turning point in Croatian court practice was the decision of the European court for human rights in the case Dragojević v. Croatia, successively followed by the decisions in the cases of Bašić v. Croatia and Matanović v. Croatia, in the field of retrospective statement of reasons for investigating judge's orders, through the application of special evidentiary actions in practice. Such practice of domestic courts, by the decision of European court for human rights, was established as a behavior contrary to Art. 8. of the Convention, which led to a reassessment of the assurance level of appropriate guarantees against various possible abuses by public authorities
Special evidentiary actions in the context of judicial control of their application in practice in the Republic of Croatia
No full textThe focuse of this paper is the institute of special evidentiary actions, its application in practice, and the question to what extent the content component of the investigating judge's order must be justify in order to respond to the challenge of the standard of legal predictability. Proving the existence of certain forms of crime, with elements of conspiracy and latency, would be significantly hampered without the use of special evidentiary actions. The complexity of this challenge is raised to a higher level as it involves certain encroachment into individual human rights that are proclaimed as the highest constitutional values and are the subject of numerous international conventions and documents. Special evidentiary actions are taken latently, or secretly, because otherwise the realization of their very nature and purpose would be thwarted. In the light of this, the main guarantee of the protection of the defendants rights, as well as other persons, from excessive interventions into their fundamental rights lies precisely in the role of the court. The turning point in Croatian court practice was the decision of the European court for human rights in the case Dragojević v. Croatia, successively followed by the decisions in the cases of Bašić v. Croatia and Matanović v. Croatia, in the field of retrospective statement of reasons for investigating judge's orders, through the application of special evidentiary actions in practice. Such practice of domestic courts, by the decision of European court for human rights, was established as a behavior contrary to Art. 8. of the Convention, which led to a reassessment of the assurance level of appropriate guarantees against various possible abuses by public authorities
EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL TOURISM TRENDS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: CONVERGENCE OR BIG DIVERGENCE
Get PDFTriggered by the phenomenon of globalisation and unrest on both sides of Mediterranean, during recent decades there has been a process of tourism travelling re-switching in the tourism expenditure domain; hence the debate over convergence or divergence of the international tourism flows, caused by abruptly fall out of vogue of some destinations due to negative shocks produced by unrest in that volatile region, has never ended. Following on the extensive multidisciplinary literature on this issue, the purpose of this paper is two-fold 1) to apply a traditional analysis of convergence (sigma and beta convergence) in tourism demand flows and Principal Component and Cluster Analyses to investigate on the existence of different international tourism models, 2) to analyse tourism receipts expressed as a share of total and derive a possible classification of the countries and its profiles by means of a multivariate approach. This paper tries to test the hypothesis of convergence of tourism demand in Mediterranean area. We considered a sample of 20 Mediterranean countries, and used data from the World Indicator Database 1995-2015, keeping all relevant variables that interfere with international tourism demand in that region. The excepted results of this paper can be interpreted as a further contribution to the literature on contemporary positive economics in the international tourism domain
Význam tržní síly v bankovnictví: případová studie České republiky
No full textNowadays, the banking system, as a part of the financial market, is an essential element through which financial resources are redistributed in the economy. This redistribution is affected by the degree of concentration of the banking sector, or the market power of individual banks within the banking sector. Therefore the aim of this article is to analyse the importance of the market power in the banking sector, in the case of the Czech Republic. This paper is based on the research of scientific articles on the given topic and on the measurement of the market power by means of the concentration of three or five of the largest banks. These studies do not have a definite conclusion on the relationship analysed. In addition, this paper uses a correlation analysis to compare the development of the market share and earnings before taxes of six selected banks, which represent three different sizes of banks based on the Czech National Bank's classification - large banks, medium-sized banks and small banks. First, the data are tested for their normal probability distribution. If so, Pearson's correlation coefficient is used, if not Spearman's correlation coefficient is used.(Pokud ano (if so) je tady nejasné. Můj návrh: If the test is positive, Pearson's correlation coefficient is used, if not Spearman's correlation coefficient is used. The volume of the assets is used to measure the market share. It concludes that a relationship between market share and profit development does not exist. However, this conclusion is not unambiguous because in some cases the correlation has been confirmed, both in a positive and a negative sense. The discussion then outlines factors that are likely to result in the more ambiguous conclusions.v současné době je bankovní systém nezbytným prvkem finančního trhu, prostřednictvím kterého jsou v ekonomice přerozdělovány finanční zdroje . Toto přerozdělování je ovlivněno stupněm koncentrace bankovního sektoru nebo tržní silou jednotlivých bank v bankovním sektoru. Cílem tohoto článku je proto analyzovat význam tržní síly v bankovním sektoru, a to v případě České republiky. Příspěvek je založen na rešerši vědeckých článků na dané téma a na měření tržní síly prostřednictvím koncentrace tří nebo pěti největších bank. Tyto studie nemají jednoznačný závěr o analyzovaném vztahu. Tento článek dále používá korelační analýzu k porovnání vývoje tržního podílu a zisku před zdaněním vybraných šesti bank, které podle klasifikace České národní banky představují tři různé velikosti bank - velké banky, střední banky a malé banky. Nejprve jsou data testována na jejich normální rozdělení pravděpodobnosti. Pokud mají toto rozdělení, použije se Pearsonův korelační koeficient, pokud nemají, použije se Spearmanův korelační koeficient. K měření tržního podílu se používá velikost aktiv. Článek dospívá k závěru, že vztah mezi tržním podílem a vývojem zisku neexistuje. Tento závěr však není jednoznačný, protože v některých případech byla korelace potvrzena v pozitivním i negativním smyslu. Diskuse pak vymezuje faktory, které pravděpodobně stojí za těmito nejednoznačnými závěry
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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