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    We have to understand the several concepts by means of definition and its integration. • Tourism Hunziker and Krapf‚ in 1941‚ defined tourism as "the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the travel and stay of non-residents‚ insofar as they do not lead to permanent residence and are not connected with any earning activity." In 1976‚ the Tourism Society of England’s definition was: "Tourism is the temporary‚ short-term movement of people to destination outside the places where they

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    TOPIC:THE EXOTIC TOURISM IN INDIA WHAT IS TOURISM? Before hitting the target of tourism in india‚let us first know what do we mean by TOURISM.(international).Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes.What the WTO(World Tourism Organisation) tells is that Tourism is people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".Now this can be considered as an exact definition

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    ACKNOLDGEMENT I express my sincere thanks to Mr. Inder Lal Bansal Owner of SOTC Franchisee for giving me an opportunity to undergo a project on “find out the potential and awareness of SOTC brand as well as creating awareness amongst the people of NCR region” and understanding the whole process of booking. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank Mr. Kapil(Sales Executives)‚ Mr. Gaurav(Sales Executives-WFT)‚ Mrs. Dimple Mucchal (FIT)‚ Mrs. Bhavna Tandon(FIT) and all the other employee

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    Negative Economic Impacts of Tourism There are many hidden costs to tourism‚ which can have unfavorable economic effects on the host community. Often rich countries are better able to profit from tourism than poor ones. Whereas the least developed countries have the most urgent need for income‚ employment and general rise of the standard of living by means of tourism‚ they are least able to realize these benefits. Among the reasons for this are large-scale transfer of tourism revenues out of the host

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    lives and shaping our future rapidly. The new technology will have a major impact in all of our lives. Technology has improved the way people feed‚ clothe and shelter themselves. Technology has also changed other aspects of everyday life‚ such as health care‚ education‚ job satisfaction‚ and leisure time activities. People call the age were in today the "Technological Age". Technology is often considered the key to a nation’s economic growth‚ which shows that technology affects everyone. Unemployment

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    ‘The Mobile Phone: A Blessing or a Curse’ from the eighteen hundreds to the present day‚ mankind has made many inventions: the television‚ radio‚ digital watches‚ and more recently home computers. Now‚ in the twenty first century a new invention has become one of the most widely used forms of communication in the world today. This of course is the mobile phone. Although available in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties it did not become as popular as first expected. Mainly due to the fact

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    Medical Tourism: Beneficence or Commerce? Danielle Evans February 15‚ 2013 Contemporary Perspectives‚ Spring 2013 Professor Philip J. Gibbon Psychology/ Occupational Therapy Major Medical Tourism is a health care trend that has recently greatly increased and is expected to continue increasing in the future. Medical Tourism is defined by tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health fitness (Medical Tourism‚ 1). The skyrocketing cost of health care is

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    Sports Tourism Sports Tourism is viewed as international trips that are made to watch sporting events. There is no universally accepted definition of sports tourism‚ but the terms ‘sport tourism’ and ‘sport tourist’ are often found in literature review. Stuart Hall‚ a cultural theorist and sociologist from Kingston‚ Jamaica is one of the many theorists that have formulated an opinion of the definition of sports tourism. Hall is under the belief that sports tourism falls into two categories

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    The economic disadvantages of the Tourism industry: The Bahamas should diversify its economy! Successfully operating a business in an ever changing world requires vision on the part of the entrepreneur; this means being able to predict future trends and prepare the company for forecasted changes in the economic system. In truth‚ commanding a country is no different than that of a business as it too should be able to adapt to global changes in the economy. Machiavelli‚ the esteemed

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    The Framework of Tourism: Towards a Definition of Tourism‚ Tourist‚ and the Tourist Industry (Leiper‚ 1979) Find six academic definitions for tourism‚ tourist or travel. Discuss each of these six definitions and explain the merits and efficiencies of each one‚ making connections with the points raised by Leiper (1979) where possible. Then provide an overall discussion about which definition is best and for what reason/s. Introduction Six definitions for the term Tourism were found from a variety

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