Stanislav Ivanov
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4380931 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stanislav Ivanov |
| PRENOMES | Stanislav |
| SOBRENOME | Ivanov |
| ASSINATURA | IVANOV S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Varna University of Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6851-5823 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Gendered Lens to Platformisation in Tourism and Hospitality
The rapid platformisation of tourism and hospitality (T&H) is reshaping work, yet for many workers this digital transformation deepens existing vulnerabilities rather than dismantling them. Platforms now colonise recruitment, task allocation, and algorithmic management in a sector already defined by precarity and a workforce disproportionately composed of young people, women, and migrants. While the European Institute for Gender Equality warns th…
The economics of service robots in hospitality companies
The paper develops a conceptual framework for the economic aspects of service robots in hospitality companies that includes several key components: task automatability by service robots; effects of service robots on back-of-house and front-of-house operations (full vs partial process automation); impacts of service robots on jobs in hospitality companies (substitution, enhancement/augmentation, transformation, new job creation); and the effects o…
Education 2070
This conceptual article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) could transform education in the next 50 years. It envisions a society with high share of workless individuals where AI is utilized for the common good. The study curricula will focus on developing human skills, promoting co-existence, collaboration, and co-construction of knowledge with AI, ensuring the acquisition of necessary skills for species survival in the case of a technolo…
Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) offers important opportunities for the hospitality and tourism (HT) industry in the context of operations, design, marketing, destination management, human resources, revenue management, accounting and finance, strategic management, and beyond. However, the implementation of GAI in HT contexts comes with ethical, legal, social, and economic considerations that require careful reflection by HT firms. The pu…
ChatGPT for tourism
Purpose The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is disrupting various industries, including the tourism sector. This paper aims to outline the applications, benefits and risks of ChatGPT and large language models in general on tourism. It also aims to establish a research agenda for investigating the implications of these models in tourism. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the available literature on ChatGPT, large language models and a…
Digital vs. Hybrid
This study compares two versions (one digital, one hybrid) of a serious board game for teacher training called the “4Ts game”. Teachers play the game in groups to learn about—and directly engage in—the joint design of collaborative learning activities for their students by choosing the Tasks to be proposed, the Timing of activities, the Technologies to be used, and the Team composition, in an iterative process of decision making. The game comes i…
Religiosity and Attitudes towards Robots
Religion is one lens in which people understand the world around them and interpret the world around them. However, it is unclear whether religion has an impact upon attitudes towards robots around the world. In this article, the authors investigate how an individual’s religiosity impacts upon perceptions of robots. The article investigates how an individual’s religiosity impacts attitudes towards robots, using data from a large-scale global surv…
Drivers of generative AI adoption in higher education through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), this study investigates the relationship between the perceived benefits, strengths, weaknesses, and risks of generative AI (GenAI) tools and the fundamental factors of the TPB model (i.e., attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control). The study also investigates the structural association between the TPB variables and intention to use GenAI tools, and how the latter might affect …
Robots and emotional intelligence
The research on emotional intelligence in social robots is growing. This paper provides a thematic analysis of the studies on robots and emotional intelligence, synthesising and evaluating current knowledge and research topics. In addition, based on the thematic analysis of the studies, it also provides a conceptual framework explaining the emotional intelligence of robots that includes both actors (human and robot) in a human-robot interaction s…
European Journal of Tourism Research
This editorial presents some of the key changes in the European Journal of Tourism Research in the period 2018-2022. In particular, the journal changed its publishing model and became a Platinum open-access journal, the journal’s scope was amended to focus on European tourism, an online submission system was introduced, and the editorial team was expanded. The paper also presents the editorial philosophy of the co-editors and their vision of how …
The digital skills divide
Purpose This paper aims to present the findings from a European study on the digital skills gaps in tourism and hospitality companies. Design/methodology/approach Mixed methods research was adopted. The sample includes 1,668 respondents (1,404 survey respondents and 264 interviewees) in 5 tourism sectors (accommodation establishments, tour operators and travel agents, food and beverage, visitor attractions and destination management organisations…
What can we learn from Star Wars about the future of tourism? Absolutely everything
Purpose This viewpoint is a response to Yeoman's (2022) editorial on Sunderland AFC and the future of tourism. This viewpoint aims to outline the lessons one can learn from Star Wars about the future of tourism. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the live-action movies and series of the Star Wars franchise. Findings The paper derives specific conclusions in the following directions: the future technology in travel, tourism and hospital…
Game of algorithms
Purpose The paper aims to evaluate the ways ChatGPT is going to disrupt tourism education and research. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper. Findings ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize tourism education and research because it can do what students and researchers should do, namely, generate text (assignments and research papers). Universities will need to reevaluate their teaching and assessment strategies and incorpora…
Service robots and perceived discrimination in tourism and hospitality
Biosecurity, crisis management, automation technologies and economic performance of travel, tourism and hospitality companies – A conceptual framework
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 will have a significant influence on travel, tourism and hospitality (TTH) globally. With a massive reduction in tourism globally because of the health crisis, the industry will have to plan recovery and rebuilding of the industry with greater consideration of the biosecurity of customers. A critical element in the reorganisation of the industry will involve the increased incorporation of automation technologies. Thi…
Robotics in crisis management
Robots in service experiences
Purpose This research discusses the role of service robots in gastronomic and dining experiences in a post–coronavirus disease (COVID) world. Design/methodology/approach The research note draws on secondary data to analyse the use of robots as an important mechanism to address the impacts of global disease outbreaks on the food industry, as related to hospitality and tourism. Findings Hospitality and tourism services are highly affected by the cu…
Nationalism in Official Tourism Websites of Balkan Countries
This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about its depiction of the nation for an international tourism market. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions t…
Cultural entrepreneurship
This paper provides a comprehensive review of Scopus-indexed English language publications on entrepreneurship in cultural and creative industries and the arts, identifies research gaps, and gives directions for future research. The paper analyses 131 publications published in the period 1982 – 2019 through quantitative analysis of frequencies, cross-tables, and Chi-square test, and qualitative thematic analysis of the publications. Eight researc…
The first chatbot of a tourism/hospitality journal
The first chatbot of an academic journal in the field of tourism and hospitality was launched in 2017. This editorial presents the structure of the chatbot of the European Journal of Tourism Research, reflects on Editor’s experience in developing and using the chatbot, and provides practical recommendations to editors and publishers who may wish to adopt chatbots for social media communications
Tourism Information Technology
Information technologies have invaded our world and proliferated in our everyday life.Tourism, as a very information-intensive industry, uses most of the technological innovations throughout all its sectors and activities.The third edition of Benckendorff, Xiang and Sheldon's book, Tourism Information Technology, provides an excellent insight into this matter
Demographic change as a driver for tourism automation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Findings There are three major solution…
Automation fears
Impacts of the refugee crisis on the hotel industry
Die Validierung des Etik-Instruments
Transforming competitiveness into economic benefits
Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) offers important opportunities for the hospitality and tourism (HT) industry in the context of operations, design, marketing, destination management, human resources, revenue management, accounting and finance, strategic management, and beyond. However, the implementation of GAI in HT contexts comes with ethical, legal, social, and economic considerations that require careful reflection by HT firms. The pu…
Automation fears
Impacts of the refugee crisis on the hotel industry
Drivers of generative AI adoption in higher education through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), this study investigates the relationship between the perceived benefits, strengths, weaknesses, and risks of generative AI (GenAI) tools and the fundamental factors of the TPB model (i.e., attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control). The study also investigates the structural association between the TPB variables and intention to use GenAI tools, and how the latter might affect …
Tourism’s impact on growth
Service robots and perceived discrimination in tourism and hospitality
Impacts of the entry of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation on its tourism industry
Attitudes and willingness to donate towards heritage restoration
In this exploratory study, an attempt was made to clarify the role of the visitors' perception of the socialist era in relation to their (1) perception of socialist monuments' maintenance level, (2) willingness to visit socialist monuments, (3) willingness to present socialist monuments for tourism purposes, (4) willingness to pay towards a visit to a socialist-era monument, and (5) willingness to donate towards socialist-era sites' restoration. …
Globalisation as a Driver of Destination Competitiveness
Nationalism in Official Tourism Websites of Balkan Countries
This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about its depiction of the nation for an international tourism market. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions t…
Robots and emotional intelligence
The research on emotional intelligence in social robots is growing. This paper provides a thematic analysis of the studies on robots and emotional intelligence, synthesising and evaluating current knowledge and research topics. In addition, based on the thematic analysis of the studies, it also provides a conceptual framework explaining the emotional intelligence of robots that includes both actors (human and robot) in a human-robot interaction s…
Market penetration of hotel chains
Using virtual communities in tourism research
Power politics and integration into Western institutions
Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007 and they share many characteristics. In this work, we will investigate the placement of embassies for the two countries to determine if the placement of embassies seems to be influences by the desire to integrate into Western European institutions or is largely interested in realist concerns. In this analysis, the authors perform logistical regressions on the placement of embassies fo…
Using virtual communities in tourism research
Future Tourism
1. Introduction: What Future for Tourism? Part 1: Global Changes and Their Impact on Future Tourism 2. Peak Oil Confronts Society and Tourism: A Futuristic View 3. The Political Economy of Future Tourism Part 2: Political and Social Trends and Future Tourism 4. Security and the Future of Tourism 5. Wellbeing, Equity, Sustainable Development and Social Tourism in Twenty-first Century Europe 6. Shapers and Shifters for the Future of Travel and Tour…
Attitudes and willingness to donate towards heritage restoration
In this exploratory study, an attempt was made to clarify the role of the visitors' perception of the socialist era in relation to their (1) perception of socialist monuments' maintenance level, (2) willingness to visit socialist monuments, (3) willingness to present socialist monuments for tourism purposes, (4) willingness to pay towards a visit to a socialist-era monument, and (5) willingness to donate towards socialist-era sites' restoration. …
Globalisation as a Driver of Destination Competitiveness
Tourism’s impact on growth
Heritage tourism
Transforming competitiveness into economic benefits
Geopolitical drivers of future tourist flows
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the major political and economic changes in the world and the likely impact that these changes will bring to tourism and hospitality industries. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a geopolitical perspective on the dynamics of tourist flows, stipulating that geopolitics has a major impact on the size, structure, and direction of these flows. Findings The paper identifies six geopolitica…
Die Validierung des Etik-Instruments
Political ideologies as shapers of future tourism development
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the link between political ideology and the management of tourism in countries. The authors stipulate that the predominant political ideology in the country influences the nature and logic of state interventions in the tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach The paper elaborates several case studies from various countries – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Scandinavia, Russia, USA, China, Japan, Indonesia, …
The Wiley Blackwell companion to tourism
This 50-chapter companion covers a wide range of aspects in field of tourism studies: the political economy of tourism, environmental issues, social theories, globalization, cultural geography and
Impacts of the entry of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation on its tourism industry
Market penetration of hotel chains
Ethisch-moralische Kompetenz als Teil öffentlicher Bildung
Ethisch-moralische Kompetenz ist ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil öffentlicher Bildung und als solcher auf eine Thematisierung im öffentlichen Erziehungssystem angewiesen. Ein international validiertes Testinstrument erlaubt es, ethisch-moralische Kompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern am Ende der Sekundarstufe I sowie in der gymnasialen Oberstufe in den Teilkompetenzen ethisch-moralische Grundkenntnisse, Urteils- und Handlungsentwurfskompetenz…
Impacts of the refugee crisis on the hotel industry
Cultural entrepreneurship
This paper provides a comprehensive review of Scopus-indexed English language publications on entrepreneurship in cultural and creative industries and the arts, identifies research gaps, and gives directions for future research. The paper analyses 131 publications published in the period 1982 – 2019 through quantitative analysis of frequencies, cross-tables, and Chi-square test, and qualitative thematic analysis of the publications. Eight researc…
The first chatbot of a tourism/hospitality journal
The first chatbot of an academic journal in the field of tourism and hospitality was launched in 2017. This editorial presents the structure of the chatbot of the European Journal of Tourism Research, reflects on Editor’s experience in developing and using the chatbot, and provides practical recommendations to editors and publishers who may wish to adopt chatbots for social media communications
Tourism Information Technology
Information technologies have invaded our world and proliferated in our everyday life.Tourism, as a very information-intensive industry, uses most of the technological innovations throughout all its sectors and activities.The third edition of Benckendorff, Xiang and Sheldon's book, Tourism Information Technology, provides an excellent insight into this matter
Demographic change as a driver for tourism automation
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Findings There are three major solution…
Automation fears
Robots in service experiences
Purpose This research discusses the role of service robots in gastronomic and dining experiences in a post–coronavirus disease (COVID) world. Design/methodology/approach The research note draws on secondary data to analyse the use of robots as an important mechanism to address the impacts of global disease outbreaks on the food industry, as related to hospitality and tourism. Findings Hospitality and tourism services are highly affected by the cu…
Nationalism in Official Tourism Websites of Balkan Countries
This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about its depiction of the nation for an international tourism market. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions t…
Biosecurity, crisis management, automation technologies and economic performance of travel, tourism and hospitality companies – A conceptual framework
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 will have a significant influence on travel, tourism and hospitality (TTH) globally. With a massive reduction in tourism globally because of the health crisis, the industry will have to plan recovery and rebuilding of the industry with greater consideration of the biosecurity of customers. A critical element in the reorganisation of the industry will involve the increased incorporation of automation technologies. Thi…
Robotics in crisis management
Tourism (26 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Business (22 obras) · Computer Science (15 obras) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (15 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Marketing (14 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Law (12 obras)