The term ‘Do It Yourself’ in tourism refers to consumers booking individual aspects of their holiday directly with the producer‚ instead of using an external agent‚ such as Thomas Cook. In recent years‚ there has been a rise in the United Kingdom in the number of ‘DIY’ holidays from 57% in 2005 to 62.3% in 2009 (Keynote‚ 2010) due to several significant driving factors influencing consumers’ behaviour. Examples of these external drivers are changes in technology‚ the Internet revolution for example
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Impact of Tourism: An Economic Analysis Executive Summary The main purpose of this report is to show the importance and the role of the indirect economic effects of tourism on growth and GDP‚ employment and foreign trade. Tourism’s role in the economy is often perceived as being limited to the hospitality industry (cafes‚ hotels and restaurants) and outbound and inbound travel agencies and carriers‚ which form the leading service sector in many countries. However‚ the economic impact of tourism is much
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Wellness tourism can be defined as travelling for the purpose of promoting health and well-being of oneself through physical‚ psychological‚ or spiritual activities. While wellness tourism is often called medical tourism because health being the main motivating factor for the traveler‚ wellness tourists are proactive in seeking to improve or maintain health and quality of life‚ often focusing on prevention‚ while medical tourists generally travel reactively to receive treatment for a diagnosed disease
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realize the importance of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its potential to help them acquire new customers‚ retain existing ones and maximize their lifetime value. At this point‚ close relationship with customers will require a strong coordination between IT and marketing departments to provide a long-term retention of selected customers‚The role of Customer Relationship Management in banking sector is very important and the need for Customer Relationship Management to increase customer
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archipelago. From the outside‚ the tensions between conservation and tourism are palatable. One side bestowing the virtues of protecting the fragile ecology of the islands while the other is intent on sharing the multitudes of options for an “ideal” vacation with whomever will lend an ear. When talking with people who live and work in the islands‚ the lines blur between the two and different shades of helpful and damaging come into view. There is a struggle between preserving the islands and the way things
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GREENING OF THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: TOWARDS A CONSISTENT‚ MANDATORY‚ RATING STYLE GREEN HOTEL LABELING SYSTEM AN ARTICLE BY VERITY ILEY FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD: HEATHER HARTWELL ‘JOURNAL OF FUTURE INDUSTRY ISSUES.’ IN PARTIAL COMPLETION OF BA (HONS) INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT 14TH MAY 2008 ABSTRACT: Environmental issues are of increasing concern nationally and globally. Consumers expect hotels to be environmentally friendly which is found to influence
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------------------------------------------------- Positive (advantages) attributes of peer groups[edit] Serve as a source of information[edit] Peer groups provide perspective outside of the individual’s viewpoints. Members inside peer groups also learn to develop relationships with others in the social system. Peers‚ particularly group members‚ become important social referents for[21][22] teaching other members customs‚ social norms‚ and different ideologies.[23] Teach gender roles[edit] Peer groups can also serve
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GIHE 30.04.2012 GIHE 30.04.2012 Kainazarova Aigerim Class E-31 Kainazarova Aigerim Class E-31 Hospitality Project Radisson Blu Hotel : fire incident Hospitality Project Radisson Blu Hotel : fire incident Table of Contents: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………2 The Aim and Method of the Project………………………………………………...2 Methodology………………………………………………………………………..2-3 Limits of the Research………………………………………………………………3 Main Body………………………………………………………………………….3 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………………
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Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".[1] Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. After slowly recovering from the contraction resulting from the late-2000s recession‚ where tourism suffered a strong slowdown from the second half of 2008 through the
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aims to describe the tourism policy and strategies in national and state contexts‚ to determine the inherent direction and prospects or potential in the tourism development of Kuala Lumpur as a tourist-friendly destination. The results show that some aspects need to be emphasized and have similarities in each of policies and strategies at the national and state level. This shows that policies made at national level could be followed at state level‚ so that each line of tourism development planning
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