Although the motives of hard adventure tourists represent a well-established research object, the theoretical foundations which can explain why experienced mountaineers engage in regular ascents remain underexamined. This study proposes that the concept of calling can help understand mountaineering motivations and explores its role on a sample of highly experienced mountaineers ...

In the digital age, the reading habits of Kazakh youth have transformed signifcantly. This study investigates the impact of digitalization on their reading culture, examining factors contributing to the decline of traditional print formats and their efects on reading frequency, preferences and comprehension. The research explores the role of social communications, electronic ...

The aim of the study was to determine the impact of increased capital adequacy standards of second-tier banks on their performance. The study is based on second-tier banks of EU member states, as these countries are the first to implement the Basel Committee recommendations, so their experience should be studied and taken into account when building risk-based regulation of ...

The article examines current conditions and prerequisites for the development of project management and contract employment in the civil service system with a specific view of the Republic of Kazakhstan experience. Global innovative trends and the Industry 5.0 paradigm have significantly changed approaches to project management in recent years. The innovative value ...

This article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the factors influencing the development of ecotourism in the Ulytau Nature Park, Kazakhstan. The authors use an integrated methodology that combines quantitative (statistical analysis) and qualitative (Analytic Hierarchy Process, survey of the local population) methods of analysis. The purpose of the study is to develop a ...

The object of this study is the analysis of questionnaire data using ontological modeling. The task relates to the fact that conventional methods for processing questionnaire data are often insufficiently effective when working with large volumes of information and do not make it possible to automate many analysis processes. As a result of the study, an ontology ...

This study investigates the attitudes of local communities in Western Serbia to‑ ward tourism development, with a focus on the potential for implementing community‑ based tourism (CBT) as a sustainable model. CBT emphasizes local community involve‑ ment in tourism planning and benefits, fostering inclusivity and enhancing socio‑economic well‑being. By surveying 845 residents ...

This study examines the interconnections between transformations in the education sphere, migrations waves, and labor market in 2000–2021 based on a panel data set for 14 Central and Eastern European countries (7 – former members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; 5 – former republics of the USSR, and 2 – former republics of Yugoslavia). Statistical data were ...

In this study, the object of the research is low-rank coal during the process of thermal heating of five types: brown, high moisture brown, long-flame, coke weakly sintering and coke fusinite. In the research, when conducting thermal and gas analysis in inert media, the problem of using low-rank coal in the thermal heating process to obtain volatile fuel gases was solved ...

Gnostic skills are a little-studied topic both for Kazakhstan and for the world scientific community as a whole. Therefore, it is necessary to study this problem in as much detail as possible in order to modernize the teaching process and successfully develop gnostic skills in future social teachers in the process of media education. The purpose of the study is the theoretical ...