This study delves into the profound impact of mega-events on a destination's perception, focusing notably on Qatar's hosting experience during the FIFA World Cup 2022. Employing a qualitative longitudinal research approach, data is drawn from a variety of sources including Scopus articles, international studies, tourism records, newspapers, and interviews with diverse stakeholders such as visitors, tourism experts, executives, and government officials. Through an inductive content analysis of this extensive dataset, the authors identify key influencing factors. They meticulously examine a decade-long evolution using assessments from independent travel and tourism rating organizations alongside various metrics. The findings reveal a significant uptick in Qatar's allure and inbound tourism. Factors contributing to this surge are systematically categorized, with transportation and events infrastructure, hospitality and accommodation facilities, and media exposure emerging as consistent themes across host nations. Additionally, contextual factors like security/safety, culture/heritage, and diversity are highlighted for their pivotal role in shaping a destination's image. This research underscores how mega-events act as catalysts for reshaping Qatar's destination identity and attracting inbound tourism, as evidenced by a range of indicators contingent upon maintaining both universal and contextual factors. It emphasizes the importance of a strategic vision that nurtures these factors over time, aligning with the destination's life cycle to forge a lasting legacy. Furthermore, the study illuminates how mega-events can bolster soft power for small countries lacking significant natural or historical attractions, providing valuable insights for policymakers and marketers to devise effective strategies.

Corporate sustainability has become integral to business strategy worldwide, including in Romania. With growing awareness of environmental impacts and the need for sustainable development, Romanian corporations are increasingly adopting green policies. This study explores how Romanian companies balance economic goals with environmental responsibilities and examines how managers’ perceptions of financial outcomes, innovation, and proactive orientations influence sustainability practices. The research adopts a novel management-focused perspective to analyze factors driving sustainable practices within organizations. A two-pronged methodology was employed: qualitative data were collected via a questionnaire administered to 149 CEOs and CFOs, providing insights into financial health and strategies and performing the statistical analysis to comprehensively evaluate long-term environmental and economic sustainability. The results show moderate to strong positive correlations between financial performance, proactive orientation, innovation, and ecological performance. While proactive and innovation parameters significantly impact ecological policies, financial performance plays a more moderate, indirect role. Key findings reveal that transport companies are the least likely to adopt green strategies, while the age of companies does not play a vital role. The study underscores the complex interplay between corporate sustainability and economic performance, offering valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities for Romanian businesses in advancing green policies.

Agile software development methodologies have grown in popularity during the past few years. One of the key components of agile development is the use of user stories to describe software requirements. However, creating and managing user stories can be time-consuming and error-prone. In this paper, we present a novel method to generating user stories’ XMI model using natural language processing (NLP) and model-driven architecture (MDA) approach. We devel-oped a method that uses NLP to extract key information from user stories and then applies MDA techniques to generate an XMI model conforming to its pro-posed meta-model. We conducted a case study to illustrate and validate our method, and we analyze and discuss the studied-related work with our proposal. As a result, our method has the potential to make user stories’ models and their meta-models the focus of software development. This will help to streamline the development process by making it easier to construct and transform models in an agile environment with the MDA approach.