Abstract: Globally, tourism is the most developed economic sector, its strong influence surpassing established economic sectors such as the automotive industry or the agri-food sector.
The fantastic potential to stimulate the development of other economic branches (constructions, food sector, transport industry), as well as the influence it exerts on the gross domestic product of countries like Spain, Greece, San Marino, make the tourism sector an economic and social phenomenon. In the context of an accelerated expansion of the tourism industry worldwide, which increases the number of those involved in tourism, there is a need to create a system to maintain the quality of tourism services and improve services offered to tourists.
This paper aims to analyze the importance of applying the principles of quality management in tourism services through sociological research methods.
Abstract: Textiles are a sophisticated and ancient technology with many appealing qualities. They are frequently soft and are readily folded, twisted, sliced, or deformed. When under tension, textiles can hold their shape and can even be manufactured to have different degrees of stretchability. Smart wearables and IoT-based clothing have the potential to have a significant impact by balancing functionality and the joy that fashion brings, along with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). It is now possible to easily fabricate both soft materials with embedded flexibility and stiff objects with embedded flexibility by combining textiles and 3D printing. In order to reinvent technology that can anticipate wants and desires, smart clothing tries to strike a balance between engineering, cybersecurity, interface, fashion, user experience, design, and science. The increasing merging of textiles and electronics now allows for the seamless and widespread integration of sensors into textiles, and conductive yarns have been developed to make this possible.
Keywords: smart textiles, IoT, sensors, e-textiles, 3D printing
Abstract: The evaluation of companies’ progress towards sustainability and the integrated reporting associated with it was supported by multiple proposals, which took the form of methods, conceptual frameworks, standards, ratings, indexes, awards, accreditations, awards, alliances, studies, and research. The present study highlights the perspective of aligning the integrated reporting standards in the context of the transition to the new business models of the future. In order to shape the concept of performance, it is important to implement the process of reducing the gap regarding the integrated reporting of companies and the adoption of standards regarding the reporting of non-financial information in an integrated way, unanimously accepted and assumed.
Keywords: global reporting initiative; disclosure quality; Global Reporting Initiative (GRI); sustainability reporting; economic indicators
Abstract: Our research examines some organizations that have implemented change in order to identify relevant motivational practices that can be used by organizations that intend to involve themselves in an organizational change endeavour. The research investigate the existing correlations between the organizational ability to reconfigure its’ resources according to the changing demands of the environment and some organizational practices in the sphere of individual motivation, specific to proactive or reactive organizations.. The analysis was based on data collected through a questionnaire whose respondents were directors, managers and consultants directly involved in a change initiative within a Romanian organization and who had extensive knowledge about change processes and their results. Our results aim to support the continuous improvement of organizational change processes, revealing some motivational aspects with impact on the organizational agility