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Competitiveness of Frontier Regions and Tourism Destination Management
Get PDFThe competitiveness of border regions is often lower than the competitive ability of a country's interior regions. Mostly being areas that mark the end of one entity and the beginning of another, border regions demonstrate weaker economic performance. Tourism, as a method of development, provides opportunities to develop tourism destinations in places where tourism attractions and resources, and comparative and competitive advantages exist. This paper deals with models for assessing competitiveness in the field of tourism and destination management as a vital element in achieving a higher level of competitiveness for a tourism destination. Our research focuses on tourism supply providers in the border regions of Slovenia and Croatia. We assess their attitudes on tourism, regional competitiveness, and potential tourism destinations as the outcome of cooperation between the two countries. Results indicate the possibility of enhancing competitiveness through a strategic approach in planning and managing cross-border tourism destinations
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
Cross-border regions as potential tourist destinations along the Slovene-Croatian frontier
Get PDFThe competitiveness of border regions is generally lower than that of a country’s interior regions. Typically being areas that mark the end of one entity and the beginning of another, border region demonstrate weaker economic performance. Tourism, as a method of development, provides opportunities to develop destinations in places where tourism attractions and resources, and comparative and competitive advantages, exist. Our research focuses on tourism supply providers in the border regions of Slovenia and Croatia. We assess their attitudes on tourism, regional competitiveness, and potential tourism destinations as the outcome of cooperation
between the two countries in the field of tourism. Results indicate the possibility of enhancing competitiveness through a strategic approach to planning and managing cross-border tourism destinations
CROSS-BORDER TOURISM COOPERATION OF SLOVENIA AND CROATIA
Get PDFSvrha ovog rada bila je ispitivanje mogućnosti za prekograničnu suradnju na području turizma u graničnom području Slovenije i Hrvatske. Željeli smo utvrditi postoji li zanimanje za prekograničnu suradnju i na kakvom je ono stupnju po mišljenju nositelja turističke ponude. Upotrijebili smo standardizirani upitnik za anketiranje odabrane populacije, koji su bili u potpunosti samopopunjavani. U uvodnom dijelu smo naveli motive, prednosti i nedostatke suradnje, a zatim smo se posvetili posebnostima prekogranične suradnje unutar kojih smo naveli razvojne faze suradnje kao i stupnjeve prekogranične suradnje. Rezultati su pokazali da je spremnost za prekograničnu suradnju na visokom nivou. Ispitanici vide mogućnosti povećanja svoje
turističke ponude prekograničnom suradnjom kao i mogućnosti kreiranja integralnog turističkog proizvoda na mjestima gdje za to postoje kompatibilne turističke atraktivnosti.The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibilities of cross-border tourism cooperation in the border areas of Slovenia and Croatia. We wanted to determine whether interest exists for cross-border tourism cooperation and what is the level of interest according to tourism supply providers. In surveying the selected population, we have applied a standardized, self-administered questionnaire. In the introductory part, we list the motivations, advantages and weaknesses of cooperation, and in the following section, we focus on the specifics of cross-border cooperation and look at the development stages of cooperation as well as the
levels of cross-border tourism cooperation. Results demonstrate a high level of willingness to cooperate.
Respondents perceive possibilities to increase their tourism offering as well as possibilities of creating a joint tourism offering on the localities with compatible tourist attractions
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Competition In Tourism In Terms of Changing Environment
No full textAbstractThere is a vast body of literature about competition, competitive advantage and competitive identity in tourism industry. Competitiveness is grounded in the strategic and operational advantages businesses have been able to achieve and through the application of these concerns to tourism, the competitive advantage of destinations. Globalization is creating trends and expectations but there is also evidence to suggest that the strong sense of the local community is a vital part of the destination competitive advantage. Tourism competitiveness is rarely examined at the single business level as the complexity of the tourism system is based on interaction and interdependency. Therefore the concerns with strategy, structure and rivalry seems a little different within tourism – hence the growing concerns with network partnerships, clusters and co-operations within the tourism literature. Management of tourist services should satisfy the needs of the customer (tourist) and contributes to tourist well-being as well as it should contribute to well being of local community. This is the part of sustainable competitiveness concept
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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