impact of the Internet on travel agencies Rob Law Kenith Leung and James Wong The authors Rob Law‚ Kenith Leung and James Wong are all Faculty Members in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hung Hom‚ Kowloon‚ Hong Kong. Keywords Leisure activities‚ International travel‚ Tourism‚ Internet‚ Online databases‚ Hong Kong Abstract This paper examines tourist perceptions of the potential for the elimination of travel agencies in the presence
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: the best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide‚ With the advent of a myriad of travel agencies provided for the individuals in the vocation ‚ the issue that whether it is more appropriate for the individuals to travel with a tour guide or travel independently has raised more and more controversy among the people. A minority of the people have a tendency to travel by themselves may say that it would be more pleasant for us to go anywhere
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Traveling Through The Country with Charley In the novel “Travels with Charley”‚ by John Steinbeck‚ Steinbeck travels to many different regions in the United States. He is traveling across the U.S‚ to see if his opinions and what he is writing about are still true. He is a writer and since he was writing about The U.S from past experiences‚ he travels to see how much has changed or if its still the same and if the people still have the same kind of personalities. Along the way he meets many different
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premise of this report is that TUI Travel PLC is one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups‚ operating in approximately one hundred and eighty countries all over the world and compromising over 220 brands. This means that they serve more than thirty million customers and that makes TUI Travel PLC a global player in the growing industry. They want to deliver a wide variety of leisure travel experiences. Three principal business sectors are important to TUI Travel PLC: Mainstream‚ Accommodation &
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The Laputans can be effectively characterized as a group of absentminded intellectuals who live on the floating island of Laputa. Gulliver encounters these people in his third voyage. The Laputans are parodies of theoreticians‚ who have scant regard for any practical results of their own research‚ they are so absorbed in their own thoughts that they must be shaken out of their meditations by flappers. These servants walk around with Laputans all day‚ holding special rattle-like equipment in their
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Disintermediation and Re-intermediation on travel agents Introduction This report will discuss about how travel agents market is influenced by disintermediation and re-intermediation and what is the impact on industry and travel agencies. The travel industry‚ is the substance in the sphere of information technology‚ is beyond any doubt a fascinating area in terms of the options given by Internet. One of the considerable increses in electronic market is travel bookings noted by Berstein and Awe‚ 1999
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Gulliver’s Travels is still relevant today because it presents a variety of social critiques and condemnations of branches of human activity that still exist today. I believe the goal in Swift’s novel was to create something to achieve just that goal‚ or the goal of timelessness. It should already be a mediocre testament to this claim that students are required to read portions of Gulliver’s Travels during their high school senior year. Swift makes a very relevant analogy between English society
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| Time Travel Theory | By: Nolan Rynearson | | COMM 101-01 | Marty Seigel 3/20/13 | Have you ever wanted to go back in time‚ and change the course of history‚ maybe for yourself or even the history written in your history books? Ever since I saw the movie Back to the Future when I was a little‚ I was fascinated by the concept of time travel. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time‚ in a behavior corresponding to moving between different points in space
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achieved tangible benefits by incorporating e-business into their business models (Zhu et al‚ 2004). Online and Offline Travel Agencies The travel industry has perhaps become one of the most successful proponents of e-business in recent years (Wang and Cheung‚ 2004) as Zellner (2002) purported that travellers are increasingly embracing the internet as the conduit for arranging their travel
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of Interstellar Travel by Yoon Ha Lee‚ is set in a futuristic world where the universe is populated by different alien civilizations (Lee‚ 2011). In a populated and civilized universe‚ interstellar travel is the essential feature of every civilization‚ and the author imagines different civilizations culturally appropriating interstellar travel in different ways (Lee‚ 2011). For instance‚ an unnamed civilization that worships the cult of Mrithaya believes their interstellar travel is a conflagration
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