E-Tourism : The Role of ICT In Tourism Industry‚ Innovations and Challenges Hooman Tahayori ¹ ‚ Masoomeh Moharrer ² 1 - Shiraz University‚ Department of Computer Science and Engineering‚ Shiraz‚ IRAN 2 - Tarbiat Modarres University‚ Dept. of Industrial Engineering‚ Tehran‚ IRAN tahayori@shirazu.ac.ir Abstract One of the major limitations of all of the information distribution channels in tourism industry‚ is that they‚ for the most part‚ all ultimately flow through the GDSs. Of course‚ this has
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Resource Management in Hospitality Industry One of the most important departments of any hotel staff is human resources management. Proper human resources management can be the difference between a really well run hotel and a poorly one hotel. The human resources manager can control almost the whole feeling and presence of the entire hotel. This makes the importance of human resources management for hotels very evident. Managing human resources in the hospitality industry presents special challenges
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction .......................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ................................................................................... 1 1.2 Problem Discussion....................................................................... 2 1.3 Purpose......................................................................................... 3 1.4 Delimitation ....................................................................
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The Art of Design in the Hospitality Industry Abstract Interior design has only just recently become an essential part of the hospitality industry. It gives a sense of brand identity in some cases and in some cases‚ the design of a hotel may be the sole reason for choosing a certain hotel above others. Thanks to the internet and social media‚ it has become increasingly easy for customers to make known what they like and don’t. Design is an important factor when it comes to guests choosing
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pages‚ to participate to debates‚ to give feedbacks or reviews too. In this way‚ how is it useful for hotels and hospitality companies? What are the advantages? What are the drawbacks? In the first part‚ this essay will analyse the different advantages for hotel marketing‚ of employing social media. Then‚ it will study the drawbacks that social media pages can create against hospitality establishments. What kind of advantages could a social media page create? Since 2010‚ companies have understood
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| Tourism and Development | Individual assignment task: Why is tourism selected as development tool by so many developing nations? | | The introduction of this essay will be focus on tourism reality selected as a development tool by many developing nations. Development has usually been treated as a process‚ a particular kind of social change. Nevertheless‚ development is also a state or condition. Whenever a society is called developed or underdeveloped we refer to its present condition
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19TH FEBUARY 2013 Tourism is a social‚ cultural and economic trend which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business purposes. These people are called visitors and tourism has to do with their activities‚ some of which imply tourism expenditure (UNWTO 2007). According to Mowforth and Munt (1998)‚ “it is an industry that facilitates not just the movement of people going from one country to another‚ but the accompanying mass displacement
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SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT TO THE RESIDENTS OF KILIFI TOWNSHIP A PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANANGEMENT OF PWANI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (A Constituent College of Kenyatta University) BY ISAAC KIPKEMEI KENGE H12/PUC/2742/07 MARCH 2011 1 Declaration This is my original piece of work and has not been presented for award of any degree in any University. SIGNATURE
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The hospitality industry is exceptionally assorted and worldwide. They might be physiological prudent social and mental (fulfilment of necessities identifying with self-regard‚ status and security.Hospitality items incorporate: convenience‚ transportation‚ voyage operators‚ servicees‚ taxi drivers‚ merchants‚ stimulation‚ nourishment and refreshments‚ emporiums and shopping arcades etc.(Andrews‚2007) The hospitality industry in India is a 3.5 trillion dollar service segment within the worldwide
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Socio-cultural impacts of tourism in Turkey [pic] Date: 23 January 2009 Table of Content Page: Introduction…………………………………………………………..3 1.What are socio- cultural impacts in general?...........................3 2.What is the tourism development in Turkey (Mediterranean area)?………………………………………………………………... 3.What are the impacts for the Mediterranean area?.................. Conclusion…………………………………………………………. Introduction This report deals with the problem statement
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