The tourism development processes of Belarus were analyzed against the background of other Central and Eastern European countries. The degree of Belarus's involvement in global globalization processes, a factor in the development of regional tourist markets, as well as the competitiveness of the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide details of the communist and socialist past to inform the debate on redesigning tourism in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries as impacted by the transition and accelerated by European Union (EU) membership. Design/methodology/approach: The...

This special issue contains five articles (in addition to an introduction and a conclusion) that capture some of the types of thinking and research in the domain of science and power relations in tourism studies. The articles deal with: the rise and fall of orientalism in travel, tourism and...

The purpose of the article is to present the problem of creating the image of Joseph Stalin by Moscow's tourism industry. On the basis of material collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the paper presents different 'embodiments' of Stalin, which can be found in...

We consider that the factors which influence the economic competitiveness, in general, exert, also an influence over a country's tourism competitiveness. Infrastructure, public and private institutions and their transparency, telecommunications, health and education infrastructure, at a primary,...

Various events, such as the global economic crisis, have seriously hampered long-term stable tourism processes with a particular relevance to international visits. In this study, we use the smooth paths of partial least squares (PLS; more specifically its PLS-SVD algorithm) and principal component...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the contribution of travel and tourism competitiveness to the global competitiveness level of the Central and East Europe (CEE) countries. The aim is to identify the correlation between the achieved travel and tourism competitiveness level (measured by the ...

This article reports the findings of an arts-based participatory action research project on the experiences of Central and Eastern European female migrants working in the hospitality sector in the United Kingdom. It critically explores the participants' negotiations of their multiple, intersecting...

In densely populated areas of Central Europe, many successful tourist destinations face the problem of approaching the limit of their growth potential. Solutions to this problem commonly refer to the idea of "smart growth" based on increasing efficiency in the use of nature for economic production...

Within the context of tourism development in the countries of contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, this paper briefly discusses the challenges for industry and key issues for researchers within six broad topic areas. These are: climate change adaptation and mitigation; integration with...