service for their dollar‚ but also feel valued and respected by the workers providing the service (Kernbach & Schutte‚ 2005; Langhorn‚ 2004; Varca‚2004; Winsted‚ 2000). World travel and tourism as one of the world’s largest industries‚ supporting 266 million jobs and generating 9 per cent of the World GDP. Each year the global travel and tourism industry generates several thousand billions U.S. dollars in revenue. According to UNWTO the number of International tourist arrivals worldwide exceeded the
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in history. His story would become wildly popular and spark many imaginations when it was dictated to and written down by Rustichello da Pisa‚ in The Travels of Marco Polo (c.1300). Along with his father and uncle‚ Marco set out for the seat of Kublai Khan at Khanbaliq‚ Cathay. During the 17 years Marco was in Kublai’s service‚ he would travel throughout the empire doing the great Khan’s bidding. It is unclear when Marco made his way to the city of Hangzhou‚ the former capital of the defeated
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Supply Chain in the Travel Industry The travel industry is an industry that is in constant change. It is the type of industry that must change with the times‚ including how it conducts business‚ how it sells its products and services‚ and how each link of their supply chain works and connects with the rest of the chain. While each brick and mortar location and travel website are similar to their counter parts‚ each one has a varying supply chain they use in order to get their product and services
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"What Kind Of World Do You Want To Live In?" If we are able to create a world of our own we would that world with everything we like and erasing everything that we dislike. But that world could change based on our ages. So like every normal people I have my own world in my mind since I was little. Since my dream is to become a scientist I want to be the creator of every single thing in my own world. I want to protect my own world like "Super Man" protects the earth. And I want to erase every disease
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customer needs in travel and tourism contexts. Communication skills is important an important part of the travel and tourism industry. It is important to use the appropriate methods of communication for a given situation. Communication takes place face-to-face‚ by telephone‚ in writing electronically (e-mail and fax). Face to face is dealing directly with customers either face to face‚ individually or in a group situation. Dealing with customers face to face has a few ground rules. You must always
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2 2. Disintermediation and re-intermediation of the travel agents 3 3. Travel agencies responses to a challenging market 6 4. Conclusion 8 5. References 9 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays‚ the travel distribution channel is very complex and characterized by the presence of many different kind of intermediaries which operate in a very competitive market. Since the beginning of the travel industry‚ intermediaries have always played an important role for
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Sales & Distribution Starting around 1996‚ tremendous changes in trends have begun. With the utilization of internet; the understanding of travel agencies has been changed. Changes and transforms in the structure of the tourism industry distribution system significantly affect the choices available to the consumer. The way to distribute travel packages have been shifted from physical to online‚ as well when customers became more aware of the internet usage and started trusting on websites‚ customer
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important for children specifically to find space travel exciting so more people go into the field of space exploration in the future. According to a Monmouth University poll‚ 58 percent of people said private companies should be allowed to launch people in space‚ while 37 percent of participants said that human spaceflight should be left to governments alone. In the same study‚ 55 percent thought it was unlikely that “ordinary people will be able to travel regularly” into space in the next 20 to 30 years
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The Role of Satire in “Gulliver’s Travels” Sir Thomas More wrote “Utopia” in 1516‚ Daniel Defoe produced “Robinson Crusoe” in 1719‚ Jonathan Swift brought forth “Gulliver’s Travels” in 1726. The first coined the much used today word “utopia”‚ the second created the first English novel about reason and moral values‚ and the third fathered probably the best satiric masterpiece. Contemporaneity‚ a few centuries later‚ is still amazed at the strength and validity of these notions. Satire‚ Swift’s
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Why should people travel? This is the story of a woman‚ who travelled the world to find that the best place is home. However‚ the journeys took her across continents over oceans. This story began when a little girl was sitting on her porch watching the pedestrians fleeting by. When suddenly a huge noise jolted her out of her day dreaming‚ and all she saw was a metal bird flying overheard. The noise made her shudder and she ran into the house screaming for her Dad. Running into his arms‚ with no
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