Tourism is defined as people traveling and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not interrelated to the exercise of an activity rewarded from within the place visited. Tourism is mainly popular as a global freedom activity. Tourism can bring many economic and social benefits. Countries can promote their self internationally by making their environment pleasant for tourist to appreciate. Promotion of tourism
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Renub Research www.renub.com Thailand Medical Tourist Arrivals‚ Medical Tourism Market & Forecast to 2015 Publisher: Renub Research Published: April‚ 2012 Thailand is the leader in medical tourist arrivals holding more than 40% share in Asia medical tourist arrivals in 2011. Its medical tourism market was around US$ 2 Billion in 2011 and it is expected to be more than double by 2015. Thailand has world-class medical facilities with its high-profile private hospitals and clinics. Thailand
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arrivals to Hong Kong‚ an increase of 4.8 per cent over the same period last year.(Tourism Fact Sheets‚ HKTB‚ 2012) The importance of events as an element of destination tourist offers is reflected in tourist‚ social and cultural functions. It is by means of tourist functions of events that many destinations widen the tourist market‚ attract tourists to destinations‚ build the destination image‚ promote the destination and stimulate the creation of economic benefits (Sherwood‚ Jago & Deery‚ 2005).
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HOW TOURISM CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIO-CULTURAL CONSERVATION Negative socio-cultural impacts from tourism How tourism can contribute to socio-cultural development Tourism can contribute to positive developments‚ not just negative impacts. It has the potential to promote social development through employment creation‚ income redistribution and poverty alleviation. Other potential positive impacts of tourism include: Tourism as a force for peace Traveling brings people into contact with each other and
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New developments and Impact on businesses This task is focused around talking about the new developments in technology‚ what they are‚ how they have impacted businesses and where they could lead. I have broken the technologies into three different sub-categories: • Hardware • Software • Communications Hardware Solid State Drives Solid state drives are a bit of an oddity in modern technology. They have existed for several years in their current form (Early 1970’s)‚ yet have only within
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Dyer‚ Gursoy‚ Sharma & Carter (2007‚ p. 409) argued that tourism is prominent in Australia’s economic restructuring‚ particularly in regional and coastal areas. There are many aspects such as history‚ attitudes and culture to contemplate when defining the meaning of leisure‚ though it is essential the participation of recreational activities free from any other obligations or responsibilities (Lynch & Veal 2006‚ p. 25). The issues statement provided for discussion through this essay is: “Australian
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Destination Analysis Professor ______ HTM 100 April 29‚ 2011 Explain the overall reasons why people travel to this destination Williamsburg‚ Virginia is a huge tourist destination and one of the most popular in the United States. People travel from across the country to this tiny town for several reasons. First‚ is for educational reasons. Williamsburg is home to a full scale reenactment of the eighteenth century known as “Colonial Williamsburg.” Tourists are able to experience
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local farmers and workers from reaping the benefit of their presence. Tourism has the power to affect cultural change. Successful development of a resource can lead to numerous negative impacts. Among these are overdevelopment‚ assimilation‚ conflict‚ and artificial reconstruction. While presenting a culture to tourists may help preserve the culture‚ it can also dilute or even destroy it. The point is to promote tourism in the region so that it would both give incomes and create respect for the
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The market environment is a marketing term and refers to all of the forces outside of marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers. The market environment consists of both the macroenvironment and the microenvironment. Microenvironment refers to the forces that are close to the company and affect its ability to serve its customers. It includes the company itself‚ its suppliers‚ marketing intermediaries‚ customer markets
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In earlier days meaning of tourism was basic but now a day’s scenario is totally changed now as discussed by poon (1993) interest of tourists has diverted from popular destinations to more specific and virgin locations to meet their individual needs. These tourists are more adventurous‚ more experienced‚ travel for fun‚ independent and with more cash in their accounts. Special interest tourism is new concept of tourism where there are additions in the type of tourism. Now days it is being created
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