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Owing to its features, Greece is a country that can meet a whole range of tourist expectations. The country is a popular destination – the number of tourists is constantly increasing; in 2007 the number amounted to 18,754,593 visitors, over 92% of whom were Europeans. Greece is the most popular with the citizens of the Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Holland, France, and the neighbouring countries...
The paper is dedicated to the issue of the relationship between the level of satisfaction of foreign tourists visiting Mexico and the potential for growth in the number of persons visiting from abroad. The publication is based on survey research conducted by the Mexican agency “Secretaria del Turismo” among tourists arriving by air. The survey asked participants to rate the state of the Mexican tourist...
This research is dedicated to the characteristic of structural spatial shifts of the world manufacturing industry. These trends have conduced to the restructuring of the world economy and main shifts in the manufacturing locations both at regional and global levels. On the one hand, countries have got a great chance to develop and to become active players in the world economy. On the other hand, those...
The key direction of economic development of Irkutsk region is forming a recreational complex based on such a unique resource as the lake Baikal as a competitive advantage of the region. It is possible to develop various kinds of tourism here. Development of the tourist sector may become one of the prime projects of development of interregional cooperation within the limits of the Siberian federal...
The Coca-Cola Company, a producer of soft drinks, the largest in the world and also in Poland, started its production in Poland in 1992. The first factory was based in Radzymin near Warsaw and in the beginning it employed 200 workers. It was the first direct investment of the Company, which initiated subsequent investments connected with setting up new factories and gradual development of distribution...
The article is devoted to modern methods and technologies which can be used in development of territorial socio-economic systems. Research in this sphere must serve as the basis of territorial planning. The combination of marketing and logistical technologies is the most effective and progressive in territorial development. Modern economic integration needs special attention to be paid to conserving...
The fundamental purpose of healthcare industry is to effectively provide medical services that improve the quality of health in a given society. The most important issue is the issue of access to medical facilities. The paper presents the spatial distribution of medical services across Mexico. This includes access to hospitals, clinics, and analytical laboratories, as well as the number and profile...
Lviv Oblast can be proud of most favourable conditions for the development of various forms of tourism. It is a region of unique environmental features, characterized both by lowlands and mountain ranges with large share of protected areas. Tourist functions of the region are proven by numerous cultural heritage sites, especially in such a centre as the city of Lviv. In Lviv there are over three thousand...
The long-term development of modern economy depends to a great extent on the development of the information sector, as well as on the activities, phenomena and processes that pertain to the development and application of modern technologies, including information technologies, in various economic sectors, which contributes to transformations of corporate management methods. This article is aimed at...
Today’s business constantly has to prove its «social profitability» before the people, has to demonstrate that the businessmen take care not only of the profit, but also of general well-being of the citizens of the country (the region, the settlement), and that business development is connected directly with society development. Unfortunately, it is otherwise in Russia – for a variety of reasons....
The following article deals with the contemporary processes of internationalization of production and delocalisation of automotive industry, with a particular reference to France. On the basis of statistical data referring to the rate of production and its structure, the article presents the changes in the concentration of worldwide car production with a particular reference to French car concerns...
From the behavioural economy point of view, the image of a region becomes more and more important. Image has strong influence on forming the demographic situation, at the level of investment attractiveness and some other aspects of competitiveness of a region. Image is mostly important for tourist business development. Throughout the last fifteen years we have developed methods that enable measuring...
The by-product of the current global economic processes is increasing competitive pressure. In conditions of world economy globalization, the Czech Republic was particularly successful in the 1990s, mainly due to the strategy of “low cost economy”. Low costs were the primary source of competitive advantage. Increasing pressure of large countries with cheap labour force does not allow the Czech Republic...
The aim of this article is to show spatial disparities in the level of regional socio-economic development of the European Union, basing on selected demographic, social and economic indexes derived from the Eurostat database. For the comparison, EFTA regions as well as some candidate countries (Croatia) were taken into account. The analysis was made with the help of taxonomic methods, namely the taxonomic...
Innovations are presently considered one of the most important factors of the regional development. Their introduction enhances the competitiveness of the region, economic growth and living standard in regions. The objective of the contribution is to assess regional innovative potential of the Zlínský region, to present the results of enquiry aimed at the analysis of conditions and hinterland for...
The article outlines the main features of the development of industrial areas (zones) on the territory of Moscow and their reorganization in the period 1990-2009. Along with the reorganization of economy “from plan to market”, the process of changes in the industrial sphere began in Moscow City. It is noted that during that period privatization of many industrial enterprises was carried out. They...
The aim of the study is to analyse the process of historical growth, transformation and global expansion of the largest Brazilian aircraft industry enterprise – Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica). The company history can be divided into three main stages. The first one lasted from 1969 until the second half of the 1980s. In that stage, the company developed production supported mainly by...
The aim of the paper is to analyze the changing role of industry in the Polish economy in the period of economic transformation and European integration based on its share of the employment structure and gross valued added, to determine changes in the spatial structure of Polish industry in the regions (voivodships) and changes in the divisions structure of Polish industry as an expression of restructuring...
The world development is characterized by blurring the division between science and economy. As a result, industrial development based on a growing dependency on knowledge and information has accelerated. In turn, due to the development of the knowledge-based economy, the importance of the so-called intellectual property laws is also on the increase. Protection of these laws not only constitutes one...
The article describes the structure of Scania as a global corporation. The company manufactures: city buses, coaches and heavy-load trucks. The article depicts the development of Scania in the world and mainly in Poland. We have described in detail the company from Słupsk – Scania Production Słupsk S.A. Mainly, employment figures and structures, production in numbers, as well as target markets. The...
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