World Geography Assignment #1: Globalization Effects in Spain’s Tourism Industry Prepared for Cesar Polvorosa Jr. Global Business Management Post-Graduate Certificate HUMBER COLLEGE BUSINESS SCHOOL Prepared by: Victor Mendez 821-354-859 Submission date September 24‚ 2012 I. Introduction Globalization as a process can be described as integration and interdependence of world regions through the network of trade and communication links (Johnson et al. 17). Globalization
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improve Sustainability of Tourism Industry Yufei Wang No. 43140444 Executive Summary In order to discuss the importance of ecotourism in improving sustainability of tourism development‚ this report is first of all going to discuss the relationship between ecotourism and sustainability; following that‚ this report is going to identify problems of ecotourism in reality. Sometimes ecotourism will be merely a form within tourism marketing‚ which means natural resource using instead of protection
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PESTEL analysis Political/Legal Environment Over the past several years‚ there has seen a plethora of patent lawsuits within the smartphone industry. In the highlycompetitive environment‚ manufacturers of handsets have been aggressive in protecting their intellectual properties by suingcompetitors by claiming infringements on patents. For example‚ in March 2010‚ Apple sued HTC for allegedly infringing on20 Apple patents (Weil‚ 2010). Apple also sued Nokia in 2010 for similar patent infringements("Patent
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from Louis Armstrong to Princess Grace. Today‚ with five-star hotels and resorts in 60 countries‚ InterContinental is a pioneer in quality‚ service and responsibility. Intercontinental Resort and Hotel are one of the group members in IHG which represent itself as The world’s first truly international hotel brand‚ InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has five star properties located in more than 60 countries with local insight that comes from over 60 years’ experiences. Each property offers its
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PESTEL Analysis In this part all factors‚ which influence the company as a whole but are out of their direct control including wider social‚ political and economic factors shall be explained. The analysis of those factors of the macro-environment is therefore often known as PESTEL analysis.3 PESTEL is an acronym for the six key strategic areas of change: Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Ecological and Legal and a technique for understanding the various external influences on a business4
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Factors Affect Chinese Outbound Tourists In Destination Choice Weiqi Wang Fairleigh Dickinson University FACTORS AFFECT CHINESE OUTBOUND TOURISTS Factors Affect Chinese Outbound Tourists In Destination Choice Introduction With the development of Chinese tourism market‚ the outbound tourism has attracted more and more attention in recent years and it has recently drawn much research attention in the academic community. Research reports that outbound tourism in China
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TOURISM AS COMMUNICATION: THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN TOURISM Ms. Neena Gupta V. Research Scholar‚ Dept. of English ‚ Univ. Of Jammu‚ Jammu-180006 Email: neenaguptavij@gmail.com Phone: 9796491314 Introduction Tourism is one of the most remarkable success stories of modern times. The industry‚ which only began on a massive scale in the 1960’s‚ has grown rapidly and steadily for the past 30 years in terms of the income it generates and the number of people who travel abroad. Tourism is the
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the cost of a $5 correspondence course on ice cream-making from Penn State University‚ they combined their $8000 life savings with a $4000 bank loan‚ leased an old gas station building in Burlington‚ Vermont‚ and opened for business on May 5‚ 1978. Using an old-fashioned ice cream freezer‚ they began churning out all the rich & creamy‚ fun & chunky ice cream flavors they’d always dreamed about‚ flavors loaded with all their favorite chunks of fruits‚ nuts‚ candies‚ and cookies. Soon there
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various cultures. Culture can influence employees’ relationship in workplaces. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Geert Hofstede studied this question for more than six years‚ and found six groups of national cultural dimensions. The first group is Power Distance (PDI) which illustrates the level that people who do not have much power in organisations and situations assent and that power does not distribute equal. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Figures of PDI about China and Japan are 80 and 54 respectively. Hence‚ Chinese is more
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Introduction and political factors Page 4 - Economical and social factors Page 5 - Environmental and technological factors Page 6 - Technological factors (cont) and Legal factors Page 7 - Conclusion Page 8 - References In this report I will analyse how Adidas is influenced by its contemporary business environment. Furthermore‚ I will portray how Adidas if influenced further by several other factors including social‚ economic‚ technological‚political and legal factors throughout the company
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