1. The Travel Market can be segmented into 3 segments: Luxury travellers‚ Adventurers and Budget travellers. These segments are identified by demographics like age and income‚ psychological factors like personality‚ and benefits sought like needs and product features. Luxury travellers are usually older or middle-aged consumers who are already financially prosperous and look for relaxation and rejuvenation from their stressful positions. They can also be retirees. Luxury travellers will be willing
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The concept of freedom has been a highly debated topic since the creation of the constitution in the 1700’s. Freedom can be defined in many different ways. In each definition‚ one commonality is apparent. Everyone is seeking freedom although has it ever actually been obtained? Is it possible to reach a state of being completely free? Of course not. Being free means having no limits or restrictions. In our world today freedom is only an idea‚ an unreachable concept that is constantly being chased
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The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his opinion on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentions a few of his past experiences and his feelings and emotions based on them. Based on this article‚ we are able extract that traveling is not just the matter of going somewhere other than your home and coming back the same person. It is somehow a little more than that as it affects us in ways unexplainable. An interesting point brought
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Radio in the 1920’s In the 1920’s Radio Broadcasting became one of America’s favorite sources of entertainment. During this time period most Americans depended on radio for their source of communication‚ since television was not yet invented. The invention of radio had a major impact on Americans. Radio stations sent out a variety of shows and programs such as; sports‚ musical concerts‚ and newscasts. The radio became a regular past time for Americans in this time period. Radio became a production
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2. Travel and Tourism industry: the structure and the three technology “revolutions” 2.1 Travel & Tourism industry in numbers and the main players: Travel & tourism industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world; globally‚ in 2012‚ it generated $2 trillion in direct GDP1‚ which corresponded to 2.9% of the world GDP. Also in terms of employment‚ its importance is highly pronounced‚ with a total contribution2 of 8.7% of world employment‚ the travel & tourism industry
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A travel agency is a retail business that sells travel related products and services to customers on behalf of suppliers such as airlines‚ car rentals‚ cruise lines‚ hotels‚ railways‚ sightseeing tours and package holidays that combine several products. In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making travel arrangements for business travelers and some travel agencies specialize in commercial and business travel only. There are also travel
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Task 3: Travel and Tourism‚ how it contributes to the UK Economy The importance of the UK tourism industry to the UK economy is often busy‚ yet it is the UK’s fifth largest industry and contributes £115bn to the UK economy. It has also been one of the rapidly growing sectors of the British economy over the past 20 years and employs around 2.6m people – around 8% of the total UK workforce. Inbound tourism Inbound tourism contributes to the UK economy as 29.8
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BUS 558 Business Travel Improvement May 22‚ 2010 Business Scope Currently‚ our organization does not utilize the internet to make purchases for business travel pertaining to lodging‚ airfare‚ and transportation (car rentals). Our organization currently uses travel agents to facilitate this‚ which is very costly. By implementing a project to replace the travel agency with utilization of internet resources‚ we can improve our existing process of business travel requests‚ implement
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Is time travel a possibility? According to Scientific research‚ time travel is more of an opinionated question. Some research proves that there are possibilities of time travel and others say that it is impossible. In my opinion‚ I think it is possible with right research and advanced technology for time travel to be possible. If time travel is invented‚ and someone did come back in time from the future‚ and change things without making themselves widely known as time travelers
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T-shirt Travels The film ‘T-shirt Travels’ takes us to the Sub-Saharan African nation of Zambia‚ a country who in the 1960’s was know for having a thriving‚ domestic textile industry. As of late‚ with the countries immense amount of debt and the constant nagging of their creditors‚ such as the IMF‚ Zambia’s local economy has deteriorated and the textile industry has vanished. However‚ there is another issue present that has also contributed to the decline of Zambia’s economy: the second-hand
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