Tourism is a social‚ cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business / professional purposes. History has taught us that people travel and engage in tourism activities in increasing numbers when several basic conditions can be met. Before people can experience tourism they usually need at least:- 1. disposable income‚ ie. money to spend on non-essentials 2. leisure time 3. tourism
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: Paul Stolk Today‚ increase in the discretionary leisure time and disposable income of the society has undoubtedly created tourism boom in many countries. As soon as tourism industry is measured as a fundamental factor in improving the economy‚ local governments and other corporations in a destination have shifted their focus towards creation of more tourism attractions in order to compete with related destinations on targeted markets. In the olden days‚ people who travelled with the leisure
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Final Paper Dr. Howard HL 120 Doug Spada AIDS in Kenya Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east‚ Ethiopia to the north‚ Tanzania to the south‚ Uganda to the west‚ and Sudan to the northwest. In the north‚ the land is arid; the southwestern corner is in the fertile Lake Victoria Basin; and a length of the eastern depression of the Great Rift Valley separates western highlands form
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SESSION 2: EXTERNAL ANALYSIS AND MBV Market Based View of Strategy: External environment analysis > strategic issues-> winning strategies-> superior performance Market based view of strategy (MBV) - sometimes known as Industrial Organisation based view (IO) places primary importance on external conditions faced by the firm. In this view‚ strategy is about the firm creating for itself a ‘market position’ via strategy whereby it can defend itself from external environmental forces and/or
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The World Tourism Organization had its initial stages as the International assembly of Official Tourist Traffic relations set up in 1925 in The Hague. It was renamed the International Union of Official Travel Organizations (IUOTO) later than World War II and shifted to Geneva. IUOTO was a scientific‚ non-governmental organization‚ whose relationship at its climax included 109 National Tourist Organizations (NTOs) and 88 Associate Members‚ among them private and public groups. As tourism raised and
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Impacts From Tourism Change or loss of indigenous identity and values Tourism can cause change or loss of local identity and values‚ brought about by several closely related influences: Commodification Tourism can turn local cultures into commodities when religious rituals‚ traditional ethnic rites and festivals are reduced and sanitized to conform to tourist expectations‚ resulting in what has been called "reconstructed ethnicity." Once a destination is sold as a tourism product‚ and
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Impact of Tourism: An Economic Analysis Executive Summary The main purpose of this report is to show the importance and the role of the indirect economic effects of tourism on growth and GDP‚ employment and foreign trade. Tourism’s role in the economy is often perceived as being limited to the hospitality industry (cafes‚ hotels and restaurants) and outbound and inbound travel agencies and carriers‚ which form the leading service sector in many countries. However‚ the economic impact of tourism is much
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FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA. Creating opportunities in terms of employment is of critical concern to every country in the world. While the developed countries have some strategies to cushion the citizen against unemployment‚ the developing and under developed countries are still struggling with the impact of unemployment. There are a number of factors that have continued to affect employment in Kenya. These factors are traced from colonial era and continue to have influence even today
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her what is right? Atieno rising fourteen‚ Atieno Yo. Atieno’s had a bay So we know that she is bad. Fifty fifty it may live And repeat the life she had Ending in post-partum bleeding‚ Atieno Yo. CHAPTER ONE: CHILD DOMESTIC LABOUR IN KENYA 3 INTRODUCTION Domestic work abuses the rights of children and consequently is an intolerable form of child labour. Unfortunately‚ it forms the largest employer of girls under sixteen years around the world. It is the most common and traditional
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The external world consists of different stimulus and sensations that can affect an individual’s perception. The simple behaviour of watching the sunset can induce complex cognitive processes in the visual and auditory systems. 6:00pm With the onset of the setting sun‚ multiple components in the external environment begins to change concurrently. There is an increase in sound‚ both in volume and in intensity‚ relative to an increase in traffic and number of cars‚ the sound of crickets and birds
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