14/11/2011 HERITAGE TOURISM & MUSEUM MANAGEMENT LESSON 2: TOURISM‚ HERITAGE & HERITAGE TOURISM (1st PART) Dr Christina Bonarou bonarou@gmail.com Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki‚ Greece Department of Tourism Management Definitions of tourism 2 All travel is not tourism. “Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes
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Tourism On Ice – Case Study People go to Chamonix for Winter Sports and Sightseeing Tourism has Economic‚ Social and Environmental Impacts on the Region Economic Impacts: 1) The TOURISM INDUSTURY in Chamonix creates a lot of JOBS‚ e.g. 2500 PEOPLE work as SEASONAL WORKERS every year. 2) Companies make a LOT OF MONEY from tourism in Chamonix‚ e.g. Compagnie du Mont Blanc is a company that runs SKI LIFTS and RAIL TRANSPORT – it has a turnover of €50 MILLION. Social Impacts:
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INTRODUCTION Can the Bahamas survive without branching into other areas of tourism? The tourism industry today is big business for a country‚ it is the number one industry of the Bahamas. It is the migration of individuals from one place to another for a short period of time. There are two types of tourism‚ domestic and foreign. People travel for recreation‚ business‚ sports‚ education and for religious or medical purposes. Tourism is a very competitive industry. It accounts for seventy percent of the
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[pic] Marketing Strategy and Performance of Tourism Industries in Nepal 1. Concept Nepal is a small land-locked county‚ surrounded by the Tibetan region of China on the north and India on the rest‚ with a total population of 28.6 million in 2009 (World Development Indicators Data Base‚ January 2010)‚ but is one of the growing tourism destinations in Asia. The number of foreign tourists increased greatly from a mere 6179 in 1962 to 176‚634 in 1984‚ 491‚504 in 1999‚ 361‚237 in 2001‚ and 385
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Sarawak on the island of Borneo ) and third federal territory‚ the island of Labuan. The situation analysis of the case study is on the steps taken by Malaysian government in positioning Malaysia itself as a brand for the tourism industry and promoting on the destination that will attracts people from all the part of the world. This case study also to understand the important of tourism as a source of profit for a country and the process and strategic developed by government to promote Malaysia as a tourist
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Rural Studies 22 (2006) 117–128 www.elsevier.com/locate/jrurstud Re-conceptualising rural resources as countryside capital: The case of rural tourism Brian Garrod Roz Wornell‚ Ray Youell Institute of Rural Sciences‚ University of Wales Aberystwyth‚ Llanbadarn Campus‚ Aberystwyth‚ SY23 3AL‚ UK Abstract Commentators tend to agree that the rural resource is becoming increasingly subject to pressures arising from an ever wider range of economic‚ social‚ political
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Microeconomic and Tourism I. Introduction …………………………………………………………………………. II. The significance of tourism to economic. ………………………………………… III. The impact of tourism on local society. …………………………………………... IV. The effects of tourism on microeconomics……………………………………….. V. UAE as an example for the subject. ………………………………………………. VI. Clusters and competitiveness of the UAE. ……………………………................ VII. Conclusion. ………………………………………………………………………… VIII. List of figures. ………………………………………………………………………
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been the most significant influences on the planning and development of tourism over the past ten years. Introduction With the development of the entire society‚ tourism industry has become one of the most powerful industries in the global economic development. The status of the tourism industry in the economic development is gradually enhanced and it plays an important role in the national economy. The World Tourism Organization forecasts that international arrivals will be up to 1.6 billion
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also to sum up the vivid world of tourism. The subject matters introduce the students to the socioeconomic‚ environmental and cultural impact of the tourism industry. It also gives an overview of the travel sectors – their development‚ composition‚ and role in tourism as well as the different trends and types of operation of each sector. ◙ Desired learning Results At the end of the semester‚ the students should able to: 1. Understand how tourism works and how it can be made to work
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SEX TOURISM According to the definition of the World Trade Organization (WTO)‚ sex tourism refers to organized trips‚ within or outside the tourist industry‚ to engage in a commercial sexual relationship. Sex tourism can be domestic or international‚ involving cross-border trips for the same purpose. United Nations‚ defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector‚ or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks‚ with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial
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