Tourism is a booming industry and a driving force in positive economical‚ ecological‚ sustainable‚ social and cultural developments in several countries around the globe. Its complex nature requires sophisticated management in order to reach its full potential. Most people possess an intuitive and basic understanding of tourism‚ which focuses on an image of people travelling for recreational purposes‚ however‚ tourism‚ goes far beyond this simplistic view. According to Stear (2005)‚ the area of
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND In every student’s life‚ academic excellence as well as co-curricular involvement is very essential. The two aspects would help them attain their goal of being part of the honor roll. Balancing these two is one of the problems honor students of today are facing. This process is intended to know how important co-curricular involvement is and what its effects to the students’ academic achievements are. Since 1985‚ Colegio San Agustin (CSA)- Biñan has been
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Academic freedom in Kenya Freedom is a basic to education in modern democracies. Freedom in education can be categorized in the various aspects such as; Freedom of the child‚ academic freedom and freedom to read. Mc’Garry and Ward‚ (1966) puts it: A free society and a free world imply a free educational system and a freedom within the framework of maximum control. In such a closed society they maintained‚ freedom in education may consist of ability to say or do in consequential things. The legal
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In this paper‚ I will define what personal responsibility is to me and the role it plays in academic success. In my thesis statement‚ I state that personal responsibility starts from within. Its takes discipline and a willingness to do what you feel needs to be done. Failure or success in whatever you choose to do or not do in any area of life is based on your actions or inactions. The definition of personal responsibility varies in different cultures as well as with one person to the next. What
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this is not lost at the hands of technology. Academics give life to a lot of concepts that become important for us to learn because of the changing nature of circumstances around us. Integrity can be defined as a commitment to five fundamental values of honesty‚ trust‚ fairness‚ respect and responsibility. Even when faced with adversity‚ these values should always be upheld and attention is to be paid to all these in detail. It is helpful to think of academic integrity in terms of ethical decision making
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Skills and Competencies Needed for the Hong Kong Hotel Industry: The Perspective of the Hotel Human Resources Manager Benny Chan Marianne Coleman ABSTRACT. The tourism industry is one of the main sources of income to Hong Kong. If qualified employees provide better service‚ Hong Kong can potentially attract even more visitors. The training of new recruits and existing staff is therefore vital‚ but views on the value and the type of training vary amongst the stakeholders. This study of
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TEI of SERRES Department of Business Administration MBA in Hospitality & Tourism A Project By Konstantinos Karanikolas Ioanna Koumleli Victoria Tsiamoura Date 22/01/2013 Professor: Maria Tsourela Tourism is a sector that is more possible to be affected when a crisis occurs. As a crisis is defined every natural or man-made disaster that can impact the long-term functions of an organization or prevent it
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predicts a slowing in the growth of world population to about 0.33 percent per year by 2050‚ at which time forecasters are predicting that world population will total 8.9 billion persons (A global demographic…Mueller‚ Paige‚ Ball‚ Asli). The hospitality industry relies heavily on the younger generations to fill front-line and entry level positions therefore the diminishing percentile of youth in certain countries will hold negative consequences in coming years for companies who rely on their skills
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doing to evaluate the profitability of group and other non yieldable business‚ and with what degree of success? Well‚ let’s try to evaluate these questions from different perspectives. I have quite often been dealing with groups’ management in Hospitality field‚ so here is my contribution to this discussion. It is my personal opinion that these target segments represent a fundamental contributor for any property business revenue (by addressing this must be clear that basic additional service offers
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Commercial hospitality is just extension of hospitality in the home. Do you agree? Hospitality is a difficult concept to define; numerous authors suggest it is both a social and commercial activity (Lugosi 2008). Nevertheless it’s important to highlight a dominant theme in accepted definitions of hospitality. Brotherton (1999) defined hospitality as “a contemporaneous human exchange‚ which is voluntarily entered into‚ and designed to enhance the mutual well-being of the parties concerned through
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