PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT OR INNOVATION: WHAT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN TOURISM? by Klaus Weiermair Professor and Head of the Center for Tourism and Service Economics University of Innsbruck Abstract This paper is built like a three–layered club house sandwich with the first layer providing some theoretical and conceptual insights regarding expected innovation behaviour in tourism based on available material in tourism and industrial economics. The second layer will provide empirical insights and/or testing
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Eco-tourism is more than a catch phrase for nature loving travel and recreation. Eco-tourism is consecrated for preserving and sustaining the diversity of the world’s natural and cultural environments. It accommodates and entertains visitors in a way that is minimally intrusive or destructive to the environment and sustains & supports the native cultures in the locations it is operating in. Responsibility of both travellers and service providers is the genuine meaning for eco-tourism. Eco-tourism
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Tourism Through the Ages The Historical Development of Tourism Early Beginnings of Travel The Babylonians (Sumerians) – The creation of money and trade – Trade was developed around 400 B.C. – Babylonians were also credited with the founders of travel business. Early Beginnings of Travel The Egyptians – First cruises were organized and conducted from Egypt. • The first journey for Tourism was made by Queen Hatshepsut to the land of Punt in 1480. – Early Egyptians started the trait of purchasing
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At one time it would have been impossible to think of ordinary people buying tickets to travel to space and back. But today it is happening and it is called space tourism. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie‚ ‘Total Recall’ had space tourism as a central theme. Such tourism however is the privilege of the hugely wealthy for it costs a lot of money. On April 28‚ 2001‚ Dennis Tito‚ a California-based multi-millionaire became the first paying space tourist. He paid $20 million for the trip! Tito travelled
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The aim of this essay is to discuss the relevance of niche tourism and what facts may affect it. It discusses briefly what a niche market is and what role has in the tourism industry. Different facts are exposed during the essay in order to give a better understanding on how economy‚ politic‚ technology and social affect tourism in general and the construction of niche markets. In addition‚ other influences have been discussed to give more information on current facts affecting the industry. An interesting
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TOPIC:THE EXOTIC TOURISM IN INDIA WHAT IS TOURISM? Before hitting the target of tourism in india‚let us first know what do we mean by TOURISM.(international).Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes.What the WTO(World Tourism Organisation) tells is that Tourism is people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".Now this can be considered as an exact definition
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future work of business travel agencies Nevmerzhitskaya‚ Julia Master’s Thesis Degree Program of Tourism 2013 Abstract Date of presentation Degree programme Author or authors Julia Nevmerzhitskaya Title of the thesis Scenarios of the future work of business travel agencies Group or year of entry YMA11 Number of pages and appendices 68 + 2 Supervisor(s) Jarmo Ritalahti This study focused on the future work of travel agencies in the business travel segment. It aimed at
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crisis‚ health crisis‚ social changes‚ customer preferences‚ war/terrorism. Tourism market consists of all potential customers sharing a particular need/want‚ who might be willing/able to satisfy it by buying a tourism product. Sustainable development achieving growth in a manner that does not deplete the natural & built environment & preserves the culture of the local community. Sustainable tourism all forms of tourism development‚ management & operations that maintain the environmental‚ & economic
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Dark tourism scholarship: a critical review Philip Stone Philip Stone is Executive Director: Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR)‚ School of Sport‚ Tourism and The Outdoors‚ University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)‚ Preston‚ UK. Abstract Purpose – Commonly referred to as dark tourism or thanatourism‚ the act of touristic travel to sites of or sites associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with media imaginations and academic scholarship. However‚ despite
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