Global Travel The Business and Leisure Travel Specialists “INSERT A MOTO HERE” Induction Pack for new employees Chapters Pages Introduction to Travel and Tourism 3 Components of the Travel and Tourism Industry with organisations 4 Factsheets on Organisations: Titanic Belfast Hilton Hotels British Airways What is Tourism and why is it important?
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opportunities for a better life through long-term‚ sustainable development‚ not least among the most vulnerable sections of our society. In the urban context‚ ICTs have increasingly dictated lifestyles and behaviour patterns and contributed to the growth of trade and commerce‚ improved governance and municipal services‚ and revolutionized entertainment through the development of rapid communications‚ both mobile and fixed. At its 2009 session‚ ITU Council adopted the theme: “Better city‚ better life with
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1. Most research suggests we are not very good at detecting lying‚ and we think we’re much better than we are. Do you believe FACS would improve your ability to detect lying in others? When we look at every day at people in businesses or school or public institutions we tend to judge them unknowingly and form a pattern to detect of action that will happen with their behavior. We continuously try and evaluate people to see if they are saying the truth or trying to lie and bluff to us. Some professions
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Case 2– Research in Motion- RIM 1. What were some of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property and how did RIM handle those challenges? There was a legal action between NTP and RIM over the intellectual property. RIM resolved the action. To protect its intellectual property‚ RIM agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle the fight. The dispute had threatened to end RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail service to millions of users in the U.S. and has been the subject of a four-year
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Case 07-2: Western Aluminum Introduction Western Aluminum‚ INC expanded its operations through the acquisition of Smelter. By the end of 2007‚ Smelter is projected to produce 30% of Western Aluminum’s inventory. Western Aluminum evaluated its current practices in comparison to Smelters current FIFO Inventory management system and issued a proposal to change their inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO. Factors to Consider Western Aluminum addressed multiple topics to validate their
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benefit at 46% or almost half the cost of 401(k) type plans due to three structurally inherent components not part of 401(k) type plans. These are: 1. Maintenance of a balanced portfolio diversification in a defined benefit plan saves 5%; 2. A defined benefit plan’s superior investment returns save 26%; and 3. Longevity risk pooling in a defined benefit plan saves 15%. On this last point‚ it is worth noting that longevity risk pooling provides a major advantage to employers and
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Globalization of Wal-Mart Ye Myint Tun California Mirama University Case Study 1: Globalization of Wal-Mart Please refer to the Mini-Case 9.1‚ “The Globalization of Wal-Mart” on page 251 and answer the following questions: 1. Why has Wal-Mart viewed international expansion as a critical part of its strategy? International expansion is different from the domestic expansion because geography areas‚ culture‚ tradition‚ behaviors and characteristics of the consumers are not similar‚ thus
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The Fashion Cannel 1. What are the pros and cons of the three segmentation scenarios? Read carefully the case and make a list of the pros and cons of each segmentation scenario. Use the following table to summarize your findings. Scenario 1: Broad-based Segmentation Targeting Scenario 2: Fashionista focus Scenario 3: Fashionistas + Planners/Shoppers Pros Already have male audience interest‚ 55% male Segment is strong with 18-34 year old females Smaller
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Tanglewood Case 2 The environmental scan for Tanglewood is very complex. According to the scan‚ there is a consistent supply of qualified individuals to fill managerial positions; however‚ it has been determined that Tanglewood may experience difficulties completing this task for several reasons. First‚ retail is often viewed as an undesirable market for recent college graduates. Secondly‚ many associate retail with working long hours‚ low pay‚ and frequent conflict with lower-level employees
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Venezuela‚ Gary‚ and Sunchem were running at losses. Despite fierce competition in Europe‚ the major reasons for Frankfurt plant generating profits were 1) constant technical up gradations in the plant to improve the yields and reliability of Release-ease. 2) Manufacturing costs were the least and the production volumes were huge resulting in average yield on raw material A at 98.9%. The Venezuelan plant‚ started in 1964‚ had a no-frills design‚ and no improvements had been made thereafter. The educational
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