Topic: Defining the Caribbean Thesis: The Caribbean‚ also known as the West Indies is defined as a broad crescent of tropical islands extending from the Bahamas and Cuba southwards to Trinidad with varied history resulting from the various races of people and various cultures characterized by different languages‚ music and dance. Topic | Sentence | The physical landscape | The crescent shaped physical landscape of the Caribbean is located between ten and twenty degrees north and eighty
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Marketing Strategy Development Proposal - Disney Cruise Line Dave Rothenberg & Kang Liu Marketing in Tourism and Hospitality Dr. Ceridwyn King Temple University School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Structure Executive Summary ……………………………………………………………………………..2 1.0 Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………….2 2.0 Situational Analysis …………………………………………………………………………2 2.1 Internal ………………………………………………………………………………2 2.1.1 Organization Analysis …………………………………………………….3 2.1.2
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Europeans came into contact with the Caribbean after Columbus’s momentous journeys in 1492‚ 1496 and 1498. The desire for expansion and trade led to the settlement of the colonies. The indigenous peoples‚ according to our sources mostly peaceful Tainos and warlike Caribs‚ proved to be unsuitable for slave labour in the newly formed plantations‚ and they were quickly and brutally decimated. The descendants of this once thriving community can now only be found in Guiana and Trinidad. The slave trade
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Music in the Caribbean The genre of Caribbean Music encompasses a diverse variety of musical styles and traditions from islands that are located in the Caribbean Sea and it represents something that is simple‚ exotic yet rich and wonderful. The styles range anywhere from traditional folk genres such as the Puerto Rican aguinaldo and Jamaican mento to more contemporary music such as salsa and reggae. They are each syntheses of African‚ European‚ Indian and Indigenious influences‚ largely created
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Tourism Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes" Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011‚ there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide‚ representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to US$ 940 billion in 2010.[2][3] International
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Sport and Adventure Tourism Simon Hudson‚ PhD Editor The Haworth Hospitality Press® An Imprint of The Haworth Press‚ Inc. New York • London • Oxford © 2003 by The Haworth Hospitality Press‚ an imprint of The Haworth Press‚ Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ microfilm‚ and recording‚ or by any information storage and retrieval system‚ without permission in writing from
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Slavery was a system of forced labour implemented by the Europeans in the Caribbean. It was the act by which the Europeans brought Africans to the Caribbean on different ships to work on their plantations against their wills. It started in the 1600’s‚ many slaves committed suicide even before they could reach to the plantations; many of them also fell sick and died. However‚ after many efforts to overthrow the slavery system in 1830’s the enslaved populations on the plantations were eventually freed
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The Caribbean When most people hear ‘Caribbean’ what jumps to mind is colour‚ steel drums‚ good food‚ smoothies‚ beaches‚ laid back attitudes‚ and all we do is party. Hopefully at the end one’s stereotypical thoughts would have changed. Brief History I shall start from the beginning Christopher Columbus did not discover the Caribbean‚ it was already there‚ people inhabited the islands before he ‘discovered the new world’. He died believing that he’d reached the islands southeast of India-Indonesia
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Managerial Economics Market Analysis Report – Cruise Sector Blue Group #9 Matteo Tuninetto Frosina Bollo Antonio Marchitelli Anna Rottmayr ME – Market Analysis Report Blue Group # 9 Page 1 of 14 Content 1. Market definition 3 2. Cost structure 3 2.1. Capex vs. Opex 4 2.2. Fixed vs. variable costs 5 2.3. Entry costs 6 3. Demand drivers 7 3.1. Purchase decisions 8 3.2. Trends in demand that affect revenues 8 4. Competitive situation 9 4.1. Market Concentration 10 4
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Study – Spree Cruise Lines Executive Summary: Determining the course of action with damage to port‚ prop‚ and passenger moral. There are three key issues that Spree Cruise Lines are being faced with. One‚ they were accused of damage to the port that they went out of on (DATE). The problem here is that the engine and prop may have not been properly fixed or maintained from the last voyage. The second issue is the actual damage to the 2nd prop and what that will do to the cruise ship itself and
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