The conference was organised by the National Centre for Information and Documentation (NACID), Sofia, Bulgaria and the National Library of Sts Cyril and Methodius, Sofia…
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The conference was organised by the National Centre for Information and Documentation (NACID), Sofia, Bulgaria and the National Library of Sts Cyril and Methodius, Sofia, Bulgaria, and was supported by Unesco.
The Information and Communications Services International Forum (Sofia '95) was held on 17–20 October in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Forum was hosted by…
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The Information and Communications Services International Forum (Sofia '95) was held on 17–20 October in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Forum was hosted by the Centre for Telematic Services (CTS) at the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTC) and was organised by BTC, the European Information Industry Association, the Bulgarian Information Industry Association and the Association for Tourism Telematics in Bulgaria. During the conference an exhibition was organised with the participation of 32 Bulgarian and foreign companies in the area of 400 square metres. The exhibitors were companies known worldwide, represented directly or via their Bulgarian partners: IBM, Motorola, Ericsson, Alcatel and others.
The Bulgarian national conference Telecommunication Nets and Systems Development — TELECOM'95 was held with foreign participation from 10–12 October 1995 in the International…
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The Bulgarian national conference Telecommunication Nets and Systems Development — TELECOM'95 was held with foreign participation from 10–12 October 1995 in the International House of Scientists at the St Constantine resort on the Black Sea. The conference was organised by the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, the Committee of Posts and Telecommunications (CPT), the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), and the Union of Electronics, Electrotechnology and Communications (UEEC). During the conference an exhibition was organised with the participation of Bulgarian and foreign companies.
Moving from a small Eastern European country to North America (Canada) while working in the IT industry gave me an exciting experience and an opportunity to think about the…
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Moving from a small Eastern European country to North America (Canada) while working in the IT industry gave me an exciting experience and an opportunity to think about the differences and similarities in the industry between the two countries. I have a degree in computer engineering from an Eastern European university and more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry there, and now almost one year of working experience in two high‐tech companies in Canada. Maybe one year is not enough for deep analysis and conclusions but I think that the first impressions are often quite interesting. While a whole book could be written on the different aspects of technological development and implementation, education and training, people's attitudes and so on, here I have tried to touch only on some areas which I felt were most important for me.
Tourism on wellness is a rapidly expanding segment of the travel industry; nevertheless, it is still in its infancy, and more study research is needed to develop a scientific…
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Purpose
Tourism on wellness is a rapidly expanding segment of the travel industry; nevertheless, it is still in its infancy, and more study research is needed to develop a scientific foundation for health and wellness tourism. The study uses bibliometric indicators like as citations to determine the field structure on wellness tourism from 1998 to 2021, and the VOSviewer software to map the significant trends in wellness tourism (WT) area, to examine the present situation.
Design/methodology/approach
To reach this objective, the theme of “wellness tourism” was searched in the “Scopus” database, and bibliometrics data on the publications were obtained. In total, 414 papers were found during the initial search, which was then narrowed according to the criteria. Using this strategy, the author discovered 386 records, and after removing 4 duplicates and 1 irrelevant document, the refining produced 381 related documents. The most-cited papers, significant authors, co-citation of references, sources and authors were all investigated for the publications related to WT.
Findings
According to this report, research into wellness tourism has increased in recent years. The authors discovered two papers with over 238 “Scopus” citations and a total of 10 studies with 1414 citations. According to Scopus, the document Napier et al. receives 36.5% of citations each year. There were a total of 804 authors who published about WT between 1998 and 2021, with Smith, M, Voigt, c, and Puczkó, L being the most-cited reference authors in the subject. Han h. has the highest index of 56 of all the authors.
Research limitations/implications
The “Scopus” database was used for bibliometric analysis, although the VOSviewer was used exclusively. This considered as a first study to utilize a bibliometric method to address this research gap, identifying the tools, journals, and, most crucially, conceptual subdomains like spa, yoga, therapy, spirituality and trekking that will be significant in future research.
Originality/value
Using a bibliometric analytic approach, this article looked at papers on wellness tourism published between 1998 and 2021. Thus, its goal is to learn more about wellness tourism and to enlighten wellness tourism scholars on the field's structure.