There are three driving forces of globalization. Improvements in technology‚ improvements in transportation and investments by transnational corporations (TNCs) Firstly‚ Improvements in technology has made communications among people in different locations faster and more convenient. People across the globe can communicate with tools such as telephone‚ electronic mail‚ fax and video conferencing. Satellite technology has enabled messages to be transmitted from one location and received in another
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JBAS Vol.1 No.2 Sept. 2009 1 An assessment of the impact of tourism globalization in Africa Thomas P. Z. Mpofu 1 Abstract The tourism sector is one of one of the exemplars of the phenomenon of globalization. This is due to the geographical scale of the industry‚ increased spatial linkages between places and people from different locations. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the extent to which tourism globalization had impacted on African countries. The paper submits that some
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Pros and Cons of Globalisation There are many advantages and disadvantages of globalisation. Some of these good and bad points of this worldwide phenomenon are discussed below: Advantages of Globalisation Globalisation has the potential to make this world a better place to live in and solve some deep-seated problems like unemployment and poverty. The pros of globalisation are many and some are as follows: 1. Globalisation promotes global economic growth‚ creates jobs‚ makes companies more competitive
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_____________________________________________________________________ B200A TMA Fall 2012 _____________________________________________________________________ QUESTION “In today’s markets‚ corporations are directly affected by the impactglobalization has on outsourcing decisions‚ as well as on macroeconomic factors in the business environment such as GDP‚ inflation‚ and the balance of trade.” Discuss the above statement using examples from B200A material covered so far‚and the study
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Case Study: Globalisation for Good or Evil? Qn 2: From these summaries‚ prepare a case for globalisation and prepare a case against globalisation‚ integrating both the ‘Western’ & local perspectives’ Globalisation fundamentally describes the increasing interconnected nature of the world due to massive rise in economical‚ political‚ social and cultural exchanges between different countries around the globe. (Mejía-Vergnaud‚ 2004) One significant advantage of globalisation is rapid economic growth
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HTM 2121 TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MARKETING PACIFIC COFFEE COMPANY MARKETING PLAN Lecturer: Clare Fung SEM005: Monday 17:30 – 18:30 April 11th‚ 2013 AN Xini‚ Michelle LAM Olivia Looi YUNG Sin Yi‚ Cindy TSE Hung‚ Angela CHAN Ka Yan‚ Katrina 12129777D 12047782D 12072175D 12071871D 12071056D Word Count: 5337 Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary .....................................................................................................
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Yes Globalisation is necessary‚ for an economy to grow. Globalisation refers to the integration of economic‚ technological‚ socio-political factors with the world. And with globalisation‚ with the mutual co-operation and assistance -particularly with reference to the law of comparative advantage- it is going to be beneficial. Globalisation also helps reducing the poverty level in the country-there are plenty of evidences and record to support it.Developing countries specially require globalization
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GLOBALISATION- A BACK GROUND STUDY Globalization has been the prominent buzz word of recent times from America to Europe and the UK to Japan to Nigeria in West Africa this is what is making the world go round and indeed flat. It is common to hear of today’s world economic system as being “globalisation”. Some describe the historical events leading up to today’s global free trade “inevitable”. The UK’S former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was famous for her TINA acronym and Gordon Brown the
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Is globalisation ‘new and inevitable’? Discuss with reference to EITHER culture‚ economics OR politics. Globalisation means ‘Growth to a large scale across the world’. This does not mean just businesses expanding across the world but also news‚ technology‚ people and even diseases. It’s when ‘something’ crosses national boundaries at an imaginary speed and on an unpredictable scale. This is only touching the subject in defining globalisation. There are different views on what globalisation is and
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Globalisation has had a profound impact on the Japanese economy influencing levels of international trade‚ business operations‚ financial flows‚ government policy‚ labour markets and even environment. This movement has been driven primarily by numerous TNCs‚ trade liberalization‚ and the deregulation of the financial system‚ and numerous strategies adopted by the Government and Economy‚ resulting in the creation of a ’new’ Japan. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT The Japanese economy‚ the 2nd largest
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