This master´s thesis deals with Invia.cz, a.s. performance analysis. First part of the thesis contains basic theoretical knowledge, regarding methods of company performance measurement. Next part is focused on description of the studied company and then performance assessment of the chosen company using START Model based on EFQM Excellence Model is elaborated. Proposals for improvement of the current situation are suggested in the last chapter.

This thesis describes a design of a travel agency headquarters building. It is a four storey building without a basement made of longitudinal cast-in-place concrete frame system. The building is roofed with non-walkable flat roof and two terraces. Two flats are located in the facility in addition to offices, a café, a shop, a tour saleroom, a small storage, a departure waiting room and other facilities providing quality operation of a travel agency. The land on which the building is located is designed as a car park and parking areas for smooth departure of the travel agency clients.

This master's thesis addresses the processing of project documentation for construction of three storey, multifunctional house in Velké Opatovice. The building is designed on flat terrain, it is terrace graded to the east and south and has a warm flat roof. On the first floor there is a pharmacy, travel agency, textile shop and technical facilities of the building. On the second floor there is an office space for advertising and graphics company. The third floor is designed as a large-area apartment for a family of four.

Dark Patterns är designmönster som används av företag i syfte att manipulera användare till att fatta beslut som de möjligtvis inte hade gjort annars och som inte gynnar deras egna intressen. Den här studien undersöker användarens upplevelse och perspektiv på dark patterns på en onlineresebyrås hemsida där dark patterns används flitigt. Dark patterns använder sig ofta av kognitiva biaser som utnyttjas hos användaren för att styra användaren till att fatta beslut som användaren inte hade avsikt att fatta, och som till följd kan påverka individens välfärd negativt. Dessa designmönster blir allt mer förekommande inom e-handeln, vilket väcker frågan hur etiskt användningen av dark patterns är. I dagsläget finns inga regelverk i Sverige som specifikt gäller användningen av dark patterns, däremot finns det regelverk som berör dark patterns, exempelvis de riktlinjer som den Europeiska dataskyddsstyrelsen har tagit fram gällande användandet av deceptive patterns samt Europaparlamentets direktiv om otillbörliga affärsmetoder. Forskningsfrågorna som ligger till grund för denna studie är: “Hur upplever internetanvändare dark patterns på onlineresebyråers hemsidor?” och “Hur påverkas användarens attityd gentemot onlineresebyråer som applicerar dark patterns?”. För att försöka svara på frågeställningarna har en kvalitativ kartläggning genomförts med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studien undersöker hur fyra internetanvändare med stor resvana upplever dark patterns på en onlineresebyrås hemsida med hjälp av simulerade bokningsprocesser i form av förinspelade videor. Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades med hjälp av tematisk analys. Resultatet visade att deltagarna hade en förståelse att man som användare bör vara försiktig vid bokning av resor för att inte bli lurad. Denna urvalsgrupp betonar att de har vant sig vid ett flertal dark patterns och inte längre reagerar på dem. Däremot upplevdes dark patterns som både något som förhindrar en smidig bokning och som störande moment under bokningen. Studien tyder på att när deltagarna är medvetna om dark patterns upplever de dem också som störande och även oetiska. En överdriven användning av dark patterns verkar även skapa en negativ uppfattning om företag som använder dem. Studien visar även att ett överanvändande av dark patterns kan ha motsatt effekt på vad företagen som implementerar dem hoppas på; att användare snarare upplever negativa känslor som påverkar deras köpbenägenhet negativt. / Dark Patterns are design patterns used by companies to trick users to make decisions that they might otherwise not have done and may not be in the user’s best interest. This study investigates users' experience and perspective on dark patterns on an online travel agency’s website that frequently uses dark patterns. Dark patterns often exploit cognitive biases in the user to steer the user to make decisions that the user might not have intended to make, which could have a negative effect on the user’s welfare. These types of design patterns are becoming more and more common within e-commerce which has sparked the question of ethicality in the use of dark patterns. There are currently no regulations in Sweden that specifically cover dark patterns, but there are regulations that affect dark patterns, such as the guidelines The European Data Protection Board have established on the use of deceptive patterns as well as the European Parliament’s “Unfair Commercial Practices Directive”. The underlying research questions for this study are: “How do internet users experience dark patterns on online travel agencies’ websites?” and “How is the users’ attitude towards online travel agencies that apply dark patterns affected?”. In an effort to answer the research questions a qualitative survey has been done with the help of semi-structured interviews. This study investigates how four internet users perceive dark patterns on an online travel agency’s website with the help of simulated booking processes through pre-recorded videos. The interviews were then transcribed and analyzed through thematic analysis. The results show that the participants had an understanding of the need to be cautious during online travel booking to avoid being tricked or scammed. This selection group emphasizes that they’ve become used to a number of dark patterns and no longer react to them. Dark patterns that hinders a smooth booking are however seen as disruptive elements. This study indicates that the users perceive dark patterns as disruptive and unethical when they’re aware of the dark patterns being used. Excessive use of dark patterns also seems to create a negative perception on the company that uses them. This study also shows that an excessive use of dark patterns could have the opposite effect than desired by the company that implements them; that the user is inflicted by negative feelings that affect the users propensity to purchase negatively.

The topic of this thesis is: Travel contracts according to the new Civil Code. The thesis consists of two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the basic terms related to the tourism and it describes the consumer protection legislation in both the Czech Republic and the European Union. In the practical part, there is an analysis of some travel contracts (including the terms of a contract) of tour operators and travel agencies located in České Budějovice. This part also analyses the results which were obtained from the questionnaires intended for the customers of tour operators or travel agencies and for the tour operators and travel agencies.

230f. / Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-05-09T18:00:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Girardi.pdf: 157119 bytes, checksum: 68fd45babeb2006d32bd46355b096098 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Alda Lima da Silva(sivalda@ufba.br) on 2013-05-10T21:01:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Girardi.pdf: 157119 bytes, checksum: 68fd45babeb2006d32bd46355b096098 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-10T21:01:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Girardi.pdf: 157119 bytes, checksum: 68fd45babeb2006d32bd46355b096098 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Esta dissertação examina sob a ótica da sustentabilidade as relações entre a cultura e o turismo no Centro Histórico de Salvador- CHS. Foi realizada com o método qualitativo, usando instrumentos de observação participante no estudo de caso: roteiro turístico do CHS. Complementadas com entrevistas com os representantes de segmentos do CHS como agentes e guias de turismo e os fóruns oficiais e privados da cultura e do turismo. A pesquisa analisa os elementos dessa relação, as implicações e as demais interações com o cenário levando em conta as dimensões do ambiente ecológico, social e o econômico. As quais condicionam o turismo e são compreendidas como bases do cenário cultural. No resultado dessa investigação destacam-se: primeiro, que o discurso constante nas políticas públicas não inclui em seu bojo a percepção sistêmica da atividade de roteiro turístico, e nem como elemento estratégico. Para o governo do Estado o roteiro é uma construção com dimensão unicamente privada e, por isso, não tem escopo no planejamento. Essa ausência impede o estabelecimento de parâmetros de sustentabilidade para a relação sistêmica da cultura e turismo. Em segundo, o Pelourinho é consumido como espaço simbólico da cultura negra e indígena e, nisso está presente tanto a gloriosidade quanto a contradição. A imagem que o senso comum tem do CHS é de ser um lugar não periférico e, por isso guarda e valoriza a cultura afro-descendente e a indígenas miscigenadas como bens globalizados. Os quais são decorrentes da trajetória de exclusão do sofrimento e da luta desses povos e, hoje alcançaram vínculos em diversos horizontes. E essa marca foi reforçada recentemente, em nome do desenvolvimento advindo do turismo, que manteve essa população ausente dos benefícios da revitalização do CHS. Nessa relação, o roteiro do CHS passeia no Pelourinho como um lugar dinamizado pelo acaso social que lhe ressignificou e, se somaram as ordens e edificações religiosas já presentes. Terceiro, o turismo ainda não flui como sistema e, suas relações com o ambiente são fragmentadas, míopes e se conduzem sem gestão sistêmica necessárias para atingir os resultados no turismo. As ações nessa esfera são políticas públicas para produções culturais a serviço da imagem mercadológica da cidade, como destino ideal com vistas a ações de desenvolvimento estratégico para o Estado. Essa realidade tem sido incapaz de estabelecer bases de sustentabilidade para as ações individuais e coletivas na relação cultura e turismo. E por último, as imagens dessa relação estão servindo mais como barreira para a contemplação dos bens simbólicos do que para a sua valorização e desenvolvimento. O cenário mostra um ambiente social frágil que induz o turista a não voltar para dar continuidade ao consumo de contemplar o patrimônio turístico do CHS. Essa pesquisa dá alguns indícios do processo de redução cronico nas possibilidades de produzir recursos e meios para criar o desenvolvimento sustentável dos bens turísticos de CHS. / Salvador

The main goal of this diploma paper was to analyze the tourist guide of the Czech Republic after joining The European Union, characterize their competence, claims and possibilities. The analysis relates especially to Czech, European and world organizations associating tourist guides and possibilities of tourist guides education in the Czech Republic. Another aim was to map utilization of tourist guides services in travel agency working.

The topic of this thesis is marketing of gastronomic travel agency. Gastronomic tourism is currently among the tourism trends. Based on the growing potential, in this paper will be presented fictitious gastronomic travel agency selling gastronomic tours. The main objective is to propose a marketing campaign of specific gastronomic tours. The marketing campaign will be set up to address, engage and make customers to purchase offered services. The campaign is therefore able to offer to potential customers exactly what they desire. The marketing approach is not the same to everyone, it reflects the consumer and media behavior of different target groups. Thanks to the proposed campaign the competitiveness of the company will be increased, profit will be gained, it means voluminous sales of offered tours and strong position in the market will be obtained.

I prepared the dissertation to make marketing strategy for travel agency. This strategy is focused to confirm the market position on the travel market, obtain the new clients and keep the current and also increase turnover. It has to may result from the marketing strategy which customers are the most important for the agency to make right advertising plan. It has to be known the ways how to attain the target.

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att belysa hur den kris som Covid-19 pandemin skapat harpåverkat hotell och resebyråers digitala taktiska respektive planerade strategiska marknadsföring,samt den krishantering som tillämpats av företagen under denna pandemin och de lärdomar dedragit av denna kris.Teori: Den teoretiska referensramen för denna studie innefattar marknadsförings-, krishanteringsoch organisationsteori. Inom marknadsföring har SCRM samt RACE marketing planningframework modellerna tillämpats och inom krishantering har krisprocessen och kriskurvanmodellerna. Vad gäller organisationsteori har fokus varit på organisatoriskt lärande och teoriernasingle-, double- och triple-loop learning samt learning in crisis.Metod: Studien omfattar en kvalitativ undersökning av två hotell och två resebyråer grundad på ensemistrukturerad intervjumetod.Slutsatser: Covid-19 pandemin har tvingat respondenterna att vara flexibla och att göra kortsiktigaanpassningar av sina marknadsföringsmetoder. Den taktiska marknadsföringen har skett genom enökad användning av digitala kanaler som lyhört anpassats till kundernas behov av hälsa ochsäkerhet. Det var ännu för tidigt för att bedöma eventuella förändringar i den strategiskamarknadsföringen men några respondenter förväntade sig ett större fokus på värde begrepp somhälsa och trygghet. Samtliga respondenter har i praktiken ägnat sig åt krishantering och de flestarespondenterna hade någon form av förberedda krisplaner, som dock inte varit anpassade till en såomfattande och djup kris som den förevarande. Samtliga respondenter verkar ha fått en större insikti vikten av att ha en effektiv och tät intern och extern kriskommunikation. Den yttre situationen harskapat ett stort tryck på respondenterna och har givit dem lärdomar som de möjligen inte hade fåttunder normala omständigheter, inklusive att på ett flexibelt och lättrörligt sätt anpassa sig till nyaoch föränderliga situationer. Även om Covid-19 pandemin framkallat mycket stress och ångest såhar den även haft positiva effekter som kan ge upphov till mer varaktiga förändringar. / Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed some light on how some hotels and travel agenciesin the Swedish tourism and hospitality industry have adapted to and managed the effects of theCovid-19 pandemic, particularly in terms of strategic and tactical digital marketing as well as crisismanagement, and the lessons learned from this crisis.Theory: The theoretical foundations for this paper include digital marketing theories, crisismanagement and organizational theory. In marketing theory, the SCRM and the RACE marketingplanning framework models have been applied and in terms of crisis management, the crisismanagement process as well as the crisis curve models have been applied. In terms oforganizational theory, focus has been on organizational learning and the theories single-, doubleand triple-loop learning as well as learning in crisis.Method: This study is a qualitative study of two hotels and two travel agencies based on semistructured interviews.Conclusions: This study demonstrates that the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the respondents tobe flexible and to make short-term adjustments to their marketing tactics. The tactical marketinghas included an increased use of digital channels and an adaptation of their marketing to theircustomers' needs for health and safety. It was too early to assess any changes in strategicmarketing, but some respondents planned to place a greater focus on value concepts such ashealth and safety. In practice, all respondents were engaged in crisis management and most of therespondents had some form of prepared crisis plans, which, however, were not adapted to such anextensive and protracted crisis as the Covid-19 pandemic. All respondents seemed to have gainedgreater insight into the importance of having effective and frequent internal and external crisiscommunication. The external situation has put a great deal of pressure on the respondents and hasgiven them lessons that they might not have acquired under normal circumstances, including acapacity to adapt flexibly and easily to new and changing situations. Although the Covid-19pandemic has caused a lot of stress and anxiety, it has also had positive effects that could triggerchanges in their longer term strategic marketing.