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Sonia Mileva Bojanova
Investments and Threats for Tourism Development
Summary:
The topic is extremely important in light of intensification of different types of threats, which ruin all kind of expectations, scenarios and prognosis for tourism development. Dynamics of investments in tourism are analyzed with special attention on FDI and Bulgarian investments abroad. Among the threats for tourism development the main focus is put on the terrorist attacks, geopolitical uncertainty, crisis and impacts on sector’s recovery. Based on analysis and evaluation main areas for further research on investments and threats for tourism development.
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Svetoslav Kaleychev
Space Tourism - Utopia or Expected Future
Summary:
In the recent years, a new and completely unknown field has gained popularity in the economic industry, contributing new and unknown concepts, attitudes and ideas, namely space tourism. The ever wider enters of information and communication technologies into the life of contemporary society, has led the possibility of access to information of a global scale. All this has led the creation of new and unknown experiences that have shaped the evolution of space tourism as a response to modern trends in the development of tourism as a science and economic branch. Space tourism itself represents a unique, extremely and difficult to access experience. It can reasonably be argued that the development of the contemporary society has defined the last years as the appropriate time for its realization as new and completely unknown to the general public economically and in particular a tourist product.
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Marusya Smokova Stefanova, Margarita Bogdanova, Evelina Parashkevova Velikova, Elitsa Krasteva, Mariela Stoyanova, Lyubomira Todorova
Best Practices for Gamification in Cultural Heritage: Bulgarian Experience
Summary:
Gamification has gained significant attention in recent years. Even the cultural heritage has not been unnoticed and various gamification techniques have been applied for different purposes. Bulgaria is among the countries with prominent interest in the matter. Although some successful initiatives have been carried out and are still implemented, there is a lack of systemised knowledge for what does not work well and why, which will help practitioners, researchers, public and local authorities in avoiding making the same mistakes in the future. The objective of the paper is to identify best practices for gamification in Bulgarian cultural heritage. The objective is addressed by providing a context specific framework for selecting best practices on gamification in Bulgarian cultural heritage. Based on a set of 12 gamification criteria and 9 impact criteria and by keeping to a 3-stage procedure, the first two top-rated initiatives have been selected as best practices and briefly described.
