Chapter 1 Objective: Tourism is a highly dynamic industry. Yet in spite of this‚ very little is understood and appreciated on how tourism can actually contribute to the social growth of any tourist destination. This chapter would provide the basic concepts of tourism. Tourism as defined by WTO (World Tourism Organization)‚ is the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other
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INTRODUCTION According to Collier (1997) tourism involves three aspects‚ it involves people(tourists) away from their usual habitat‚ the activities of people away from their usual habitat will normally give rise to an industry and the activities of both the people and the industry may or will have impact on the host community. 2.0 DISADVANTAGES OF TOURISM 2.1 THREATHEN INDIGENOUS IDENTITY Tourism gives positive impacts to a country but the impacts arise when tourism brings about changes in value systems
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Executive summary The following report provides the information about the tourism in Serbia. Serbia falls into two geographic region of Central and South-east Europe. Serbia is mainly known for adventurous tourism. Serbia is also blessed with various sceneries‚ rivers‚ monasteries‚ curative spas and many more. Serbia has got many types of tourism like; Spa tourism‚ adventure‚ cultural and rural tourism. The report shows statistical record of tourist inflows from domestic as well as from international
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strength and impact of the tourism industry on local economies worldwide‚ the debate over the positive and negative effects of tourism is little more than a mental exercise. But to develop sustainable tourism policies‚ a thoughtful consideration of these effects is necessary. This essay will argue that there are much negative sides outweighed the positive sides‚ and suggest how to minimize the negative effects of tourism. Economic Effects Tourism’s primary benefit is the profit it brings the
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MASS TOURISM BROAD TRENDS IN TOURISM AND TRANSPORT IN THE 21ST CENTURY 1. Shifting from traditional mass tourism to individual travelling 2. Shifting from long-haul to shorter break visits 3. IT times: E-commerce 4. Polarization between ‘big’ and ‘small’ players 5. Various traveling purposes‚ dominated by ‘holiday’ and ‘VFR’ travellers 6. A globalized destination era 7. Sustainable and pro-poor tourism become popular in many of the LDCs 8. Stronger environmental
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management concluded the large fixed cost absorbed sale figure. First it is important to understand the standard costing system implemented in Rubber group. Standard costing assigns quantity and price standards to each component of variable and fixed costs in calculating the total cost. In the case of NASA‚ the system uses standard purchasing price (input cost) and standard inputs usage in place for variable costs‚ and standard spending price (input cost) and standard
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Cultural tourism is referred to the kind of tourism‚ which is concerned with the culture of a specific region or country‚ particularly in the arts. It basically focuses on the traditional communities that have diverse customs as well as the forms of art and the distinct social practices that distinguish a certain culture from the others. It would include tourism in the urban areas and even the historic and large cities‚ including facilities like theaters and museums. It also includes this in the
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Running Head: TRAVEL AND TOURISM Travel and Tourism [Name of the writer] [Name of the institution] Abstract This study aims tо explore thе motivations fоr tourists’ choice оf diverse tourism environments іn а Third ’World country‚ Nigeria. Results obtained from а questionnaire survey оf 376 tourists randomly sampled from seven tourism destinations іn Nigeria show that thе most prominent motivations fоr tourist destination choice are self-actualization іn an appreciative‚ educational or cultural
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Introduction Tourism is an industry that rely on tourism resources and tourism facilities to provide tourists travel tour. It is known as smokeless industry and sunshine industry. Travel business is composed of three parts: tourism‚ transportation industry and accommodation industry. They are the three pillars of tourism industry. The tourism industry is very important for Singapore. It is one of Singapore’s economics pillar industry and contributors to the Singaporean economy. Tourism will help
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accounting profits and economic profits for Gomez’s pottery. Explicit costs: $37‚000 (= $12‚000 for the helper + $5‚000 of rent + $20‚000 of materials). Implicit costs: $22‚000 (= $4‚000 of forgone interest + $15‚000 of forgone salary + $3‚000 of entreprenuership). Accounting profit = $35‚000 (= $72‚000 of revenue - $37‚000 of explicit costs); Economic profit = $13‚000 (= $72‚000 - $37‚000 of explicit costs - $22‚000 of implicit costs). 8-4 (Key Question) Complete the following table by calculating
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