Competitive intelligence (CI) is gaining significance as a process that enables companies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.  For this study, a path model was developed to empirically investigate the relationship between CI use in hospitality and the hotel industry and its background environmental and organiz ...

This paper empirically studies the impact of social factors on the sustainability of the hospitality industry in Qatar.  Besides the social factors that influence the sustainability of any business, it shows that the most relevant factors for the sustainability of the local hospitality industry are education, life expe ...

This paper studies an innovative mechanism for managing local tourism and recreation systems and offers recommendations on their development. It examines issues on local tourism system management in the Volga Federal District, Russia. It shows that the relevance of local system development is largely dictated by the lo ...

OECD Tourism papers address issues such as trends and policies, innovation, sustainability, skills and statistics.  This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Tourism Committee (www.oecd.org/cfe/tourism).  It complements OECD tourism publications and ...

The report takes a comprehensive look at the prospects for the EMEA real estate market in 2020.  It provides a cautious economic and political outlook in the region amidst weakening global trading conditions, the capital markets in light of the accommodative policies of central banks that reinforce expectation of conti ...