Shangri-La Hotels Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a deluxe Asian hotel chain and was founded in 1971 in Singapore by the Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok. The name Shangri-La means “eternal youth‚ peace and tranquility” and embodied the serenity and service for which the hotel chain was renowned throughout the world. As of 2006‚ Shangri-La had four main business segments: hotel ownership and operations‚ property development including commercial buildings and serviced apartments‚ hotel management
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Strategic Analysis of Shangri-la I. Introduction The hospitality industry constitutes an economic sector with the fastest growth worldwide. At present‚ the industry continues to receive recognition as a profitable and progressive industry. The hospitality industry offers diverse opportunities for employees and varied services and features to customers. This means that overall industry actual and potential provisions are unlimited‚ which accounts for continuous shifts or adjustments contributing
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La Malinche was very persuasive woman‚ like Jiminy Cricket in the Pinocchio story. She was very talented in languages she knew three in fact‚ with the skills she had it helped her move forward with her life in becoming free to get away form the life she had and start with a fresh one. La Malinche was born into a higher class so her life was good but that all changed when her father had died and her mother remarried to a local lord and had a son with him and she didn’t want to have La Malinche
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to be told by advertisers. This medium allows for maximisation of the creative potential. Brand History Shangri-La is a premier hospitality provider founded in 1971 in Singapore. Its name was inspired by James Hilton’s legendary novel "Lost Horizon"‚ which encapsulates a placid haven in the Himalayas mountains‚ called Shangri-La‚ which cast a spell on its residents. Today‚ Shangri-La composes of over 70 deluxe hotels and resorts in key cities in Asia Pacific‚ Canada and the Middle East. Apart from
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El Niño & La Niña It should be recognized that the strong weather pattern called El-Nino-Southern Oscillation‚ or ENSO‚ is unfortunately an unavoidable occurrence. This weather formation is known as an essential process for maintaining long-term global climate stability throughout the year. El Nino and La Nina‚ two phenomenal and impacting events‚ generally occur in the ocean surface temperature across the central and eastern tropical Pacific. However these two weather extremes are two entirely
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The legend of La Llorona Lechner‚ J. V. (2004). Allyn & Bacon anthology of traditional literature. Boston: Pearson A and B. Lyons‚ G. (1972). Tales the people tell in Mexico. New York: J. Messner. The legend of La Llorona (The weeping woman) is a well known Hispanic tale in the Southwestern part of the United States‚ Mexico‚ Central and South America and also Puerto Rico. Many versions of the story exist allowing them to fit the community where the story is being told. The story is about
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Sustainability Case Study “La Presa‚ Benguet” By: JECILLE MALULAN (August 2015) Time Context Sitio La Presa is actually Sitio Pungayan in Mount Cabuyao‚ Poblacion in this rustic town. And no‚ it is not located in Baguio City‚ but in Tuba‚ Benguet. Understand that Baguio is surrounded by other municipalities of Benguet‚ namely Tuba‚ Itogon and La Trinidad. The actual site of the popularized Sitio La Presa is outside of Baguio. Likewise‚ the strawberry farm is located in La Trinidad and not in the
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There are various stories that go along with the name La Llorona‚ the weeping woman. Generally‚ all of them tell the story of a woman who killed her children and threw them in a river‚ then walked the riverbeds searching and crying for her children. Her search is not always motivated by the same reasons throughout the various stories but in every story La Llorona regrets the decision to kill her children. La Llorona’s story is often told with her given name being Maria. In one myth Maria‚ a peasant
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Marketing management | La Martina | Case Write-up | PROBLEM STATEMENT Lando Simonetti founded La Martina for the purpose of producing and selling functional polo equipment‚ focusing on controlled growth‚ limited availability‚ and embodying the polo lifestyle. Originally developed for polo players‚ the initial customer base of La Martina was comprised of polo players‚ teams and clubs. This niche market‚ with only 7‚000 to 8‚000 professional players and 20‚000 casual players worldwide‚ is concentrated
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La Brea Tar Pits Introduction The La Brea tar pits have been well-known for over a century. Before the rise of European settlers‚ local Indian tribes used the tar to caulk canoes and waterproof tents. As the Industrial Revolution took off the early 1900s‚ the tar pits attracted oil men‚ as asphaltum is often associated with petroleum. Then‚ [w]hen W. W. Orcutt‚ the original organizer of the geological department of Union Oil of California‚ reexamined the area in 1901‚ he discovered "a vast
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