Culture industry is a term coined by critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973)‚ who argued in the chapter of their book Dialectic of Enlightenment‚ ’The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’‚ that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods – through film‚ radio and magazines – to manipulate the masses into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content‚ no
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Graduate School Trisakti Institute of Tourism Final Assignment (Problem Solving) Course : Human Resources Planning for Hospitality and Tourism Lectrurer : Prof. Syamsir Abduh‚ PhD Case Study 1 Brunt Hotels‚ PLC‚ owns more than 60 hotels throughout the United Kingdom. They recently acquired a small hotel chain headquartered in France. Brunt’s chief executive decided that half of the new hotels in France would be retained and rebranded as part of the Brunt Hotels Group; the other half
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Employee retention & Hospitality Industry Group: Bindiya Salat (19176) Executive Summary * Employee retention is a process in which the employees are encouraged to remain with the organization for the maximum period of time. * Employee retention is beneficial for the organization as well as the employee. * As soon as employees feel dissatisfied with the current employer or the job‚ they switch over to the next job especially in hotel industry. * It is the responsibility
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international tourism creates tension rather than understanding between people from different cultures. Do you agree or disagree‚ and why? Tourism develops wherever you live. Thanks to globalization and technological advance‚ people in different regions are able to travel across their boundaries‚ even to the other side of the world‚ without difficulty. Does it mean the relationship between tourists and host communities is getting close together? To a larger extent‚ international tourism fails to achieve
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CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Alessandra Quartesan Monica Romis Francesco Lanzafame SEPTEMBER 2007 The Institutional Capacity and Finance Department (ICF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) developed this study on cultural industries in LAC. The study was conducted under the supervision of Francesco Lanzafame‚ Housing & Urban Development specialist‚ by Alessandra Quartesan‚ Urban Development and Cultural Heritage consultant
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5 1.1 Definition of hospitality industry and its workforce 5 1.2 Definition of employment turnover‚ reasons and solutions 7 1.3 Employment turnover in hospitality industry 9 1.4 Hanoi’s hospitality and its employment turnover status 10 Chapter 2: Findings from interviews- a case study of 1911 13 2.1 Status of high staff turnover in Hanoi’s hospitality industry 13 2.2 The reasons of high turnover 15 2.3 The solutions to solve the problem of high turnover in Hospitality in Hanoi 18 Conclusion
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RITSUMEIKAN ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Tourism Resource Management Cooper‚ Malcolm J.M FINAL REPORT Question2 Outline the main types of Adventure Tourism. What are the management risks and benefits attached to them? Recent years‚ there is a new trend of participating in a tourism called adventure tourism has been grabbing the attention of Chinese tourists. Adventure tourism involves exploration or travel to remote‚ exotic and possibly hostile areas‚ where the traveler should ‘expect the
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that in hospitality‚ the service provider is “part of the product itself”. For guests to be satisfied‚ they not only must believe that they have received a valuable service for their dollar‚ but also feel valued and respected by the workers providing the service (Kernbach & Schutte‚ 2005; Langhorn‚ 2004; Varca‚2004; Winsted‚ 2000). World travel and tourism as one of the world’s largest industries‚ supporting 266 million jobs and generating 9 per cent of the World GDP. Each year the global travel
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Current skill gaps in the Hospitality Industry The main objectives of the assignment is directed towards determining impact of skill gaps on the UK hospitality industry and on the services provided by the entire industry. To be able to address this objective‚ the researcher would recognize the present recruitment strategies of the hotel‚ as literature shows that hospitality industry is having a lot of problems in their internal and external recruitment strategies. Also‚ the assignment shall discuss
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Public Relations in the Hospitality Industry Public elations practices and principles Imani Laport Imani Laport Public Relations Practices and Principles Midterm Reaserch paper Public Relations in the Hospitality Industry Public relations and the hospitality industry go hand and hand. Without the help of public relations the hospitality industry would not be successful. Public relations practioners have struggled over the years to find a sound definition for their work. It’s taken
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