In addition to achieving economic goals , tourism companies must take care of social goals and the impact of their business activities on the environment. Social responsibility and economic profit are not contradictory, but rather complementary. Many companies implement Environmental Management System (EMS) in their business operations. Nowadays, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is more and more represented in tourism and hotel industry. An increasing number of tourists are showing concern for the environment and they are staying in green hotels during their travels. The survey was conducted to determine whether the tourist"s intention to stay at the green hotel is affected the tourists' care for the environment and the perceived value of the green hotel offers. Statistical analysis was performed on a sample of 155 respondents from the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The results of empirical research have shown that these variables have a positive impact on the choice of green hotels, so the study offers important practical implications for tourism and hospitality companies.
Due to the process of globalization, travel has become much more affordable, so tourists have the opportunity to visit foreign and even some exotic destinations. Market research helps travel agencies in formulating a marketing strategy, which should attract tourists and ensure their satisfaction, which ultimately enables the service provider to make a profit. The purpose and goal of the research is to determine whether cultural intelligence as a push-factor implying the desire of tourists to learn a foreign language, and get to know other cultures and their value systems and cultural heritage as a pull-factor implying touring buildings, and cultural monuments of other countries, influence the choice of foreign tourist destinations. Furthermore, the research examines whether the influence of these variables from the aspect of a demographic characteristic of age is more pronounced in respondents belong to generation Z compared to the generation X respondents. The sample includes 208 respondents from the Republic of Serbia. After statistical processing of the data, the obtained results show that variables have a statistically significant positive impact on the choice of foreign tourist destinations, and that their impact is more pronounced in generation Z respondents compared to those of generation X, so the research provides useful information to marketers and travel agencies.
The aim of the paper is to show the influence of cultural intelligence in the acceptance of foreign brands and how these insights can help multinational companies in shaping and presenting their brands so that they are better accepted in different cultural environments. Cultural intelligence consists of four factors, two of which have been analyzed for the purposes of this paper - the metacognitive and behavioral factors. The metacognitive cultural dimensions are useful for the individual uses to obtain certain knowledge about a culture. Behavioral cultural intelligence represents the ability to adapt an individual to verbal and non-verbal behaviors according to the situation in culturally diverse environments. The results of the empirical research proved a statistically significant positive impact of the behavioral element of cultural intelligence on the acceptance of foreign brands by consumers, while the influence of the metacognitive factor on the acceptance of foreign brands is not statistically significant, which is different from most of the empirical studies conducted so far.
The issue of adequate measurement of the use of intangible assets and monitoring its impact on the financial performance of the organization in recent decades is bridged by a measurement-managerial model that unites financial and non-financial performance indicators - Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Since this paper focuses on banks as representatives of specific, modern financial organizations, the subject of research is to examine the possibility of applying this model in the analysis of banking performance. The aim of the research is to analyze, by using the qualitative methodology (review of existing papers in the literature), whether the BSC model is applicable for the analysis of banking performances; and then, by using the quantitative methodology, through connecting two perspectives of the same model (perspective of internal business processes and perspective of customers), to examine how the determinants of TAM model (perceived usefulness, ease of use) and determinants of SERVQUAL model (perceived security and privacy, responsibility) affect electronic banking customer satisfaction. The empirical research was conducted through the survey method on the territory of the Republic of Serbia at the end of 2020, and the sample included 324 respondents. Statistical software SPSS Statistics was used to process the collected data. Based on the literature review, it was found that the BSC model is applicable for the analysis of banking performances. The results of the empirical research have shown that perceived usefulness, perceived security and privacy, and responsibility have a positive statistically significant impact on the satisfaction of electronic banking users, while ease of use does not have a statistically significant impact on the satisfaction of mentioned users.
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