Daša Fabjan

University of Primorska | UP · Faculty of Tourism Studies - Turistica (UP FTŠ Turistica)

Purpose – The impact of tourism is an ongoing research interest among scholars as it is directly related to the tourism development process. Residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts can indicate development guidelines if planners pay attention to them. Design – We examine residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and their support for sustainable...

This chapter focuses on the association between the proximity of a physical environment suitable for recreation and physical activity, which is a public health priority in communities. After the COVID-19 lockdown, tourism destinations experienced an increased number of visitors who showed the need for physical activity. To ensure the health of visi...

Modern tourism planning and development of a destination should include input from all levels of society, including diff erent age groups and varying interest groups within a local community. However, it is very rare that, in the process of participatory planning, youths and school groups are invited to express their views on development plans or h...

Modern tourism planning and development of a destination should include input from all levels of society, including diff erent age groups and varying interest groups within a local community. However, it is very rare that, in the process of participatory planning, youths and school groups are invited to express their views on development plans or h...

Modern tourism planning and development of a destination should include input from all levels of society, including diff erent age groups and varying interest groups within a local community. However, it is very rare that, in the process of participatory planning, youths and school groups are invited to express their views on development plans or h...

This article presents the use of a spatial difference-indifferences (DID) estimator to measure the impact of new highways on residential property values in mainly rural NE Slovenian municipalities. In the last 15 years, the introduction of two motorways in this region has improved the municipalities’ average accessibility to the highway system by m...

Modern tourism planning and development of a destination should include input from all levels of society, including different age groups and varying interest groups within a local community. However, it is very rare that, in the process of participatory planning, youths and school groups are invited to express their views on development plans or ha...

Although much research has been performed on passengers' origin airport choice, there is little research on airports' catchment area size and even less on airports' catchment areas in cross-border regions. This paper addresses passengers' airport choice and analyzes airports' catchment area size and its homogeneity in the Upper Adriatic region. Usi...

Events industry plays an important role in nowadays economy and can have a substantial impact for a successful business; in addition, sustainability-oriented tourism is becoming an important component of development and planning of a tourist destination. Thus, organizing sustainability-oriented events is crucial and should focus on the zero waste e...

This article seeks to explain passengers’ choice of airport and analyse catchment areas of three airports in the Upper Adriatic region. The Upper Adriatic region is considered as a uniform, territorially and socio-economically integrated region – and as a single multi-airport and cross-border region. The analysed region is also specific in terms of...

The purpose of this research was to determine social interaction between hospitality employees and their guests, and consequently assess how front-line employees categorize and stereotype hotel guests based on their facial attractiveness with reference to three main characteristics. Social stereotypes represent a means of information transmission i...

Court expertise dealing with the reconstruction of road traffic accidents often have to take into account the possibility that an accident could have been a set-up. Such suspicions can be eliminated only by considering all the evidence material from the accident scene. In case of photographic material experts come across the missing material, bad l...

The study of geomagnetic fields is one of the earliest studies in the field of geosciences. At present, measurement of the geomagnetic field is concerned with answering the fundamental questions about the Earth's deep interior, mantel conductivity, structure and the thermo-mechanical properties of its crust, its lithosphere and the near-Earth envir...

This paper discusses the effect that bus transit service unreliability has on demand and presents the results of its study. In the research a set of regression models that estimate route-level demand were developed using data collected with Automatic Passenger Counters and Automatic Vehicle Location systems installed on buses, and demographic, soci...

A two-stage raster-based GIS approach for evaluation of continuous accessibility fields has been presented. The proposed methodology can be essential for a complete integration of accessibility in many different studies-fully integrated in GIS environment - at macro or mezzo level. In the model applied, the improvement of time-spending distances to...