Alexander Naidenov

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of National and World Economy

The main goal of the article is to study the generations that are actively participating in the tourism market at the moment and to examine their attitudes towards domestic tourism. The analyses of the generations' domestic leisure tourism practices in Bulgaria include two-dimensional frequency distributions and statistical pair-wise hypothesis tes...

Destination marketing and branding are key factors that considerably influence the destination choices for both domestic and international visitors. Understanding the dynamics of how tourists select which destination to visit is crucial for destination planners, tourism organizations, and businesses. This is particularly so in the context of domest...

Tourism is a very important sector for the Bulgarian economy with its GDP share varying between 10 and 13% before the COVID-19 health crisis. In 2021 domestic tourism accounted for 89% of the personal travel expenditures of Bulgarians. The purpose of the present paper is to analyse public attitudes towards the domestic leisure tourism in Bulgaria a...

Camping tourism has become very popular since the beginning of COVID-19 as tourists started to look for socially distanced and yet experiential activities. However, the academic scholarship is relatively thin, particularly in the context of Eastern Europe-a geographical location with rich traditions in outdoor camping and tourism. Drawing on a quan...

Stimulating domestic tourism is a priority in the development of the tourism industry in Bulgaria. The share of the population's expenditure on travel within the country averages 69% of total travel expenditure. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyse the attractiveness, effectiveness, and significance of the national Black Sea resorts...

The present article 3 focuses on the problems of e-government and digital administrative services on a European scale and in the Republic of Bulgaria in particular. This is a controversial topic, important for all economic and social processes. In the context of the evolving Covid-19 crisis, investing in new digital administrative services can brin...

The research explores post-pandemic travel intentions, availability of travel funds and accommodation preferences in Bulgaria and Azerbaijan, two countries with similar demographic and territorial characteristics but relatively different consumption patterns and tourist behaviour. In both countries, tourism forms a major part of national economy an...

This article aims to present the ad hoc approach of cost management taken by the companies under the conditions formed due to the COVIDIzation of the economy. Considering the uniqueness of the situation caused by COVID-19, the term COVIDization of the economy is interpreted. In general, it means complex changes in the PESTEL environment, conditione...

New challenges in the dynamically changing business environment require companies to experience digital transformation and more effective use of Big Data generated in their expanding online business activities. A possible solution for solving real business problems concerning Big Data resources is proposed in this paper. The defined Agile Elastic D...

The standardization is an inevitable process in the world of globalization. The Eurostat efforts for the 'unification' of the statistical production processes of the EU members' national statistical organisations lead to the development and the implementation of a standardization 'tools' such as SDMX, GSBPM, ESMS, NPMS, etc.

Each generation reacts to the life events depending on many factors but maybe the most important is the environment (time, place, family, etc.) in which it raised. The modern fast-paced communications cradle generations who need to process a large amount of information for a very short time trying to filter the disinformation and data 'garbage'. Us...

The paper presents the results from the experimental estimation and forecasting of the Bulgarian unemployment rates based on the seasonal and trend decomposition using the locally weighted scatterplot smoothing regression (STL). The reasons for the usage of local subsets of values for the curve fitting instead of a general time series model are dis...

The paper searches for the answer to the question ‘What are the main reasons for the formation of the contemporary Bulgarian human values?’. The usage of some ‘traditional’ statistical methods and also non-conventional ones such as the structural equation modeling, in combination with data from the ESS representative national survey, provides a sol...

The study of the Bulgarian human values main drivers requires the usage of latent variables in order to represent the hidden " forces " that constitute these complex structures. When the standard statistical techniques cannot provide the adequate tools for that kind of study we need to use advanced methods such as structural equation modeling (SEM)...

The pursuit of high quality production is one of the main topics of our modern world society. The great variety and complexity of the production characteristics lead to the need for use of the specific software products in order to control for the production process quality. There are many software solutions to this issue but one of the most famous...

The economic processes acceleration tendency leads to the need for faster and accurate information about the key indicators in order to observe and eventually to control these processes. The unemployment rate as one of these important indicators is usually produced on quarterly and annually basis. During the last few years Eurostat is discussing th...

The paper contributes to the empirical research on the microdeterminants of income inequality in Southeast European transition countries. The analysis utilizes data from a representative survey of 3,300 Bulgarian households conducted in 2007 and quantifies income differentiation effects related to certain socio-demographic characteristics. Quantile...

The ar﬒ cle presents the results from the experimental es﬒ ma﬒ on of municipali﬑ unemployment rates in Bulgaria, using the small area es﬒ ma﬒ on methods. The need for this kind of es﬒ mates is based on the real needs for highly territorially disaggregated data in order to provide informa﬒ on for the correctly localized policies. The basic concepts...