Developing an environmental scanning process in the hotel sector Jorge Costa Professor‚ Fernando Pessoa University‚ Portugal Richard Teare Granada Professor‚ International Management Centres Association‚ UK Keywords The development of the hotel sector in Portugal has been scarcely documented with Abstract little literature published‚ and that which is Investigates the environmental available‚ mostly reporting on the occupancy scanning activities of hotel chains rates and revenues of hotels
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Manero"‚ Post Mortem"‚ "No"‚ "The Club") is not at stake in his latest feature‚ “Jackie”‚ a stylized biopic with a few aspects to admire. The film‚ written by Noah Oppenheim (“The Maze Runner”‚ “Allegiance”) and co-produced by Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream"‚ "The Wrestler"‚ "Black Swan")‚ is centered on the former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy‚ emulating her emotional states in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s shocking assassination in 1963. Natalie Portman flawlessly embodies
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Ebb and Flow: Cuban-American Reality “Lucy‚ honey‚ if I wanted things Cuban I`d stayed in Havana. That`s the reason I married you‚ ‘cause you`re so different from everyone I`d known before.” -Ricky in I Love Lucy. This quote is from the iconic show from the 50`s‚ I Love Lucy‚ but also is used in Sustavo Perez-Firmat`s piece called Life on the Hyphen. In Perez-Firmat`s piece‚ Perez-Firmat relates the Cuban-American experience and how it is made up of several different generations who all have to
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Exhibitions‚ Corporate Hospitality and Corporate Travel. FT Prentice Hall / Pearson Education. FREYER‚ W./ NAUMANN‚ M./ SCHRÖDER‚ A. (2006). Geschäftsreise-Tourismus. Dresden: FIT-Forschungsinstitut für Tourismus. HANK-HAASE‚ G. (2005/2006). Der deutsche Tagungs- und Kongressmarkt. Wiesbaden: ghh consult GmnH (Editor). Internet and PDF-Files Studies AUMA (2007) GCB (2007). Tagungs- und Veranstaltungsmarkt Deutschland. Das Meeting & EventBarometer 2007. In: <http://www.gcb.de/pdf/EITW_Studie_Meeting_und_
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need to be first class. Here are some ways in which people add value to an experience‚ as part of the marketing mix - training‚ personal selling and customer service. Here‚ we’ve worked on people part of DHL Express. DHL Express is a division of Deutsche Post providing international express mail services Originally founded in 1969 to deliver documents between San Francisco and Honolulu‚ the company expanded its service throughout the world by the late 1970s. The company was primarily interested in
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role in Citi’s capitalizing on emerging growth opportunities." Jorge Bermudez‚ a 33-year veteran of Citi‚ has decided to retire. Over the last three months‚ Mr. Bermudez has worked closely with senior management on assessing and developing a plan for the risk function going forward. "I would like to thank Jorge for his excellent stewardship during a difficult transition time for all of us‚" Mr. Pandit said. "Last October‚ Jorge informed senior management of his intention to retire‚ and given
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allow DHL shipping from any UPS Store location (DHL International‚ 2016; The UPS Store‚ Inc‚ 2016). The company has leveraged these competitive advantages to realize a 34% international market share and over €607 million in income (Deutsche Post DHL Group‚ 2015a; Deutsche Post DHL Group‚ 2015b). The only area in which the company needs to become more competitive is pricing because its current prices for many of its services exceed that of many of its competitors (Park‚ Choi‚ & Zhang‚
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Why Literature? The premature obituary of the book. By Mario Vargas Llosa It has often happened to me‚ at book fairs or in bookstores‚ that a gentleman approaches me and asks me for a signature. "It is for my wife‚ my young daughter‚ or my mother‚" he explains. "She is a great reader and loves literature." Immediately I ask: "And what about you? Don’t you like to read?" The answer is almost always the same: "Of course I like to read‚ but I am a very busy person." I have heard this explanation
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print media played a direct role in changing the African-Bahian discourse was backed up by his mentioning the importance of a novel written by Jorge Amado entitled Jubiabá[ Ickes‚ Scott. African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia‚ Brazil. University Press of Florida: Gainsville‚ Florida. 2013. Pg. 115]. Jubiabá was proof that a “modernist” like Jorge Amado could accept Candomble as part of Bahia regional identity and not all modern thinkers were opposed the idea. Further evidence that media
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became the chief of the Quilombo dos Palmares‚ located in Pernambuco‚ in 1680 after leading a civil war and defeating their current leader‚ Ganga Zumba. Zumbi resisted the Portuguese colonial oppression for 14 years until the expedition led by Domingos Jorge Velho destroyed the Palmares in 1694 (Diggs‚ pg 62-67‚ pr 1- 18). However‚ there was no physical evidence of the Palmares‚ and the historical documents showed the invaders’ perspective of the events (Orser‚ pg 10‚ pr 3). Thus‚ the historiography of
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