Ramutė Narkūnienė

Email: ramutenarkuniene@gmail.com

ORCiD: 0000-0002-8045-375X

Results of applied research and experimental development carried out in 2020–2025

Scientific publications

• Ramutė Narkūnienė. (2020). Sustainable tourism development in the regions of Lithuania. Collective monograph „Business management insights and transformation process: social, economic and cultural aspects“, Klaipėdos universitetas, Liepojos universitetas, Lietuva, Latvija. ISBN 978-609-454-476-7 (print), ISBN 978-609-454-476-4 (online). p. 83-91.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. Rasa Bražulienė. (2020). Comparative analysis of tourism development in the Baltic States. Collective monograph „New trends in the economic systems management in the context of modern global challenges“, VUZF Publishing House „St. Grigorii Bogoslov“, Sofija, Bulgarija, ISBN 978-954-8590-85-3, p. 82-90.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. (2021) Attractiveness of the Eastern Aukštaitija region for local tourism under COVID-19 conditions. Collection of scientific articles of the international scientific conference "Society. Integration. Education" (ISSN 1691-5887, eISSN 2256-0629), Vol. 6., pp. 413-422. DOI:17770/sie2021vol6.6325. The publication is referenced in Thomson Reuters (ISI Web of Science), CrossRef, Google Scholar, OpenAire and WordCat databases.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė (2021). The attractiveness of the Eastern Aukštaitija region for local tourism in the context of COVID-19 // Studijos kintančioje verslo aplinkoje, p.46-52. Vilnius: Lietuvos ekonomikos dėstytojų asociacija. ISSN 2029-2813 (print), ISSN 2029-2813 (online). The publication is referenced in the Index Copernicus database.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė, Ugnė Šinkūnaitė (2023). Research of tourists' attitudes towards responsible consumption in the tourism sector. Collection of scientific articles of the international scientific conference "Society. Integration. Education" (ISSN 1691-5887, eISSN 2256-0629). The publication is referenced in Thomson Reuters (ISI Web of Science), CrossRef, Google Scholar, OpenAire and WordCat databases.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė, Ugnė Šinkūnaitė. (2023). Turizmo įmonių požiūrio į atsakingą vartojimą turizmo sektoriuje analizė. // Studijos kintančioje verslo aplinkoje, p. 107-111. Vilnius: Lietuvos ekonomikos dėstytojų asociacija. ISSN 2029-2805 (print), ISSN 2029-2813 (online). The publication is referenced in the Index Copernicus database.
• Arbidane I., Puzule A., Znotina D. Narkūnienė R. Daubarienė J. (2023). Accessibility and Smart Tourism: Tourism for All and Reducing Inequalities: a Tourism Agenda 2030. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 2023. The publication is referenced in SCOPUS Q2 databases.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė, Ugnė Šinkūnaitė (2023). Analysis of the awareness of the habilitated Doctor of Natural Sciences Eugenija Šimkūnaitė among young people. Utena College scientific journal "Insights". Co-author of the article Ugnė Šinkūnaitė. (Submitted for publication)
• Narkūnienė, R. (2024). Comparative analysis of consumers' and tourism experts' attitude to the sustainable development of the tourism sector in the regions of Lithuania. Tarptautinės mokslinės konferencijos Innovations in Science and education straipsnių rinkinys, Central Bohemia University (CBU), Praha, Čekija. Vol. 4 (2024) p. 30-37. DOI: 10.12955/pss.v4.397.
• Narkūnienė, R. (2024). Behavioral Characteristics of Tourism Consumers in Lithuanian Regions from a Sustainability Perspective. Proceedings of 11th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences - ISCSS 2024, p. 311-320. doi: 10.35603/sws.iscss.2024/s03/20.
• Narkūnienė, R. (2024). Tourism region competitiveness factors. Scientific Monograph “Adaptation mechanisms of socio-economic systems to global changes and challenges: resource-efficient technologies, environmental protection, security, sustainable development”, Higher School of Security and Economics (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) 2024, p. 84-95.
• Narkūnienė R., Striupienė S.(2024). The Analysis of Utena District Residents’ Opinion of Utena Local Lore Museum Activity. SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference. Vol. II, May 24th, p. 235-246.
• Galvydytė A., Narkūnienė R. (2024). Lėtojo turizmo plėtros galimybių Lietuvoje tyrimas. Studentų moksliniai tyrimai 2023/2024. Konferencijos pranešimų santraukos. Lietuvos mokslų taryba. p. 464.
• Narkūnienė, R. (2025). Analysis of factors for sustainable development of the tourism sector. Straipsnis publikuotas mokslinėje monografijoje “Profound structural transformations of socio-economic and ecological systems based on resilience, sustainable and inclusive development”, 600-611, ISBN 978-619-7774-27-6 (print), ISBN 978-619-7774-28-3 (pdf), Plovdiv, Bulgarija. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15710025, 10.6084/m9.figshare.29375417.v1
• Narkūnienė, R. Jakštonienė, I. (2025). Straipsnis „Analysis of the attitudes of Lithuanian academic youth towards environmentally responsible behaviour when travelling“ publikuotas tarptautinės konferencijos ENVIRONMENT. TECHNOLOGY. RESOURCES pranešimų medžiagoje, Online ISSN 2256-070X, Vol. I, 391-397.
• Narkūnienė, R. Daubarienė, J. ir Aksomitienė, J. (2025). Analysis of the evaluation of Utena district tourism resources from the visitors' perspective in terms of attractiveness. Environment. Technology. Resources. Rezekne, Latvia. Proceedings of the 16th International Scientific and Practical Conference. 2025. Volume I, 383-390.
• Narkūnienė, R. Daubarienė, J. ir Aksomitienė, J. (2025). Utenos rajono turizmo išteklių vertinimas lankytojų požiūriu patrauklumo aspektu. Studijos kintančioje verslo aplinkoje (p.104-112). Vilnius: Lietuvos ekonomikos dėstytojų asociacija. ISSN 2029-2805 (print), ISSN 2029-2813 (online).
• Akram Hussain, Azmain Fayek, Ramutė Narkūnienė. (2025). Natural Resource Analysis from a Sustainability Perspective in Cox‘s Bazar, Bangladesh. Methodical International Students’ Scientific – Symposium Academic Aspirations of Youth: Insights in Economy, Management, Law and Technologies 2025, XXI‘th international students methodical simpozium. Set of articles. Klaipėda, ISSN 2029-0217, p. 339-348.

Conference presentations

• Ramutė Narkūnienė. Sustainable tourism development in Lithuanian regions. Scientific-practical conference “Business and science synergy for innovative solutions”. Conference organizers: Utena and Vilnius colleges. 2020-04-23. Certificate No. 165/20. Participated remotely.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. The aspects of Lithuanian inbound tourism development. International scientific-practical conference “Innovative strategies and models of economic transformation in the context of European integration challenges”. Conference organizers: Higher education institutions of Bulgaria, Ukraine and Poland. 2020-05-15. Certificate No. 01. Participated remotely.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. Comparative analysis of tourism development in the Baltic States. VIII international scientific-practical conference “Innovative aspects of the development service and tourism”. Conference organizers: Stavropol Agrarian University, Russia, 2020-05-18. Co-author of the report Rasa Bražulienė. Conference agenda. Participated remotely.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. Attractiveness of the Eastern Aukštaitija region for local tourism development under COVID-19 conditions. International scientific conference “Studies in a changing business environment”. Conference organizers: Lithuanian Association of Economics Teachers LEDA. 2021-04-15. Certificate No. V8-513. Participated remotely.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. Attractiveness of the Eastern Aukštaitija region for local tourism under COVID-19 conditions. International scientific conference “SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION”. Conference organizers: Rezekne Academy of Technologies, Latvia. 2021-05-28. Certificate No. 1875.
• Ramutė Narkūnienė. Sustainable development of the tourism sector in the Eastern Aukštaitija region. International scientific and practical conference “Challenges and prospects of sustainable development”. Conference organizers: Kolping College, Kaunas. 2023-03-16. Participated remotely.
• R. Narkūnienė. Behavioural Charasteristics of Tourism Consumers in Lithuanian Region from a Sustainability Perspective, International  Scientific Practical Conference "Business Environment", Riga Business Competence Center. 12 November 2024.
• R. Narkūnienė. Comparative Analysis of Consumers' and Tourism Experts' Attitude to the Sustainable Development of the Tourism Sector in the Regions of Lithuania. International scientific-practical conference "Aspects of Sustainable Development: Theory and Practice", 18 April 2024
• R. Narkūnienė. Analysis of consumers' attitudes towards the sustainable development of the tourism sector in the Lithuania regions. The 18th International Scientific Conference “SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION”, Rezekne Academy of Technologies, Rezekne, Latvia, 24-25 May 2024
• R. Narkūnienė. Behavioural characteristics of tourism consumers in Lithuanian regions from a sustainability perspective. The 11th SWS International Scientific Conference “SOCIAL SCIENCES (ISCSS) & ARTS & HUMANITIES (ISCAH)”, Albena, Bulgaria. 25-30 August 2024.

Other scientific activities

• Defended doctoral dissertation in social sciences "Modeling trends in the Lithuanian tourism sector, increasing the competitiveness of tourist regions in the context of sustainable development". MRU, 2022-02-11.

Scientific (applied and other) projects

• LMT postdoctoral internship project “Expression of sustainable tourism sector development in regions from the consumer perspective, increasing regional competitiveness”, project no. P-PD-22-106. Access via the Internet: https://www.lmt.lt/lt/doclib/ywhyzdzf0kwuszue83dztp6c27qc4bap
• Supervising the student project “Research of tourists’ attitudes towards responsible consumption in the tourism sector” under the LMT measure Student Research during the summer. Project no. P-SV-22-168.
  Supervising the student project “Research of slow tourism development opportunities in Lithuania” under the LMT measure Student Research during the semester. Project no. P-ST-23-55.
  Participation in the project “Digital transformation of education (“EdTECH”)” No. ŠMSM –V-004-0001.

Expert and consulting activities

• Participation in the work of the evaluation committee, evaluating foreign simulation companies, fair catalogs, audio advertisements at the 24th International IB Fair 2020-11-12. Gratitude from Lithuanian SimuLith and the LIBA Association (November 12, 2020).
• Participation in the work of the evaluation committee, evaluating the participants of the 2nd National Simulation Company Fair 2021-05-27. Gratitude from Lithuanian SimuLith and the LIBA Association.
• Participated in the reviewer group and reviewed the article “Tourist attractiveness of rural communes in the functional urban area of ​​Olsztyn – A voivodship city” for the scientific journal “Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum”, Poland, February 2022. Certificate. Access via the Internet: https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/aspal/recenzenci
• Participated in the activities of the reviewer group and reviewed the monograph “The strategy of digital competence formation using a hybrid learning environment based on Microsoft 365 services”, Slovakia, Ukraine, February 2023.
• Participation in the activities of the scientific committee of the 12th international student scientific-practical conference “Youth in a changing society” of Vilnius College. Conference date 2023-12-07.

Participation in international and national associations, public organizations, and societies

• Member of Lithuanian Association of Teachers of Economics (LEDA)
• Member of Lithuanian Imitation Companies Association (LIBA)