Malaysia: Tourism target hit by high costs‚ limited budget Malaysia will miss this year’s target of 22.5 million tourist arrivals because of the higher cost of promotions‚ stiff competition from other destinations and domestic uncertainties‚ reported local daily The New Straits Times on Monday. Tourism Malaysia‚ a government agency to promote the industry‚ plans to seek a revision of the target set by the government‚ its senior official said. The agency now expects that it will attract
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Full Length Research Paper Tourism marketing information and destination image management Arturo Molina1*‚ Mar Gómez1 and David Martín-Consuegra2 1 Department of Marketing‚ University of Castilla-La Mancha‚ Cobertizo San Pedro Mártir s/n. 45071 Toledo‚ Spain. 2 Department of Marketing‚ University of Castilla-La Mancha‚ Ronda de Toledo s/n. 13071 Ciudad Real‚ Spain. Accepted 25 March‚ 2010 Destination image is commonly accepted as an important aspect in successful tourism management and destination
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MASS TOURISM Table of contents Introduction Tourism is the World’s Largest Industy‚ It is a key economic driver for Singapore whereby millions of tourist come every year to Singapore. It is the temporary movement of people to destinations from their country of work and residences to another. In this discussion‚ we are going to discuss about Mass Tourism in Singapore. Mass tourism refers to
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usage occasions: Numerous * Role of Government * The role of Indian Government for success in medical tourism is two-fold: * Acting as a Regulator to institute a uniform grading and accreditation system for hospitals to build consumers’ trust. * Acting as a Facilitator for encouraging private investment in medical infrastructure and policymaking for improving medical tourism. * For facilitating investment the policy recommendations include: * Recognize healthcare as an infrastructure
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To identify the link between the motives of the tourist and phases which they go through in the process of experiences and to identify how this relates to the types of tourists. 1.2 Scope: This paper has a central discipline that being the tourism field. This paper will provides information based on literature and electronic sources to indicate the phases of tourist’s experiences‚ the motives of the tourist and the categories that tourists may be identified by. This paper will also provide
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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA --- Atul Sinha * Tourism development in India has passed through many phases. At Government level the development of tourist facilities was taken up in a planned manner in 1956 coinciding with the Second Five Year Plan. The approach has evolved from isolated planning of single unit facilities in the Second and Third Five Year Plans. The Sixth Plan marked the beginning of a new era when tourism began to be considered a major instrument for social integration and
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which influenced modern travel was the creation of maps. The first map was made in the 6th century BC by the Greeks‚ with maps being developed over thousands of years to todays most advanced electronic maps on smartphones and GPS’s. Without maps‚ the tourism industry would not be as successful as it would be harder to find your way to and from your travel destination. Ancient Romans mostly travelled for leisure‚ the most common reason for today’s travel. They would visit historical wonders in different
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backwaters of Kerala‚ snow capped Himalayas and the quiescent lakes are incredible. 2. Demand-supply gap : Indian hotel industry is facing a mismatch between the demand and supply of rooms leading to higher room rates and occupancy levels. With the privilege of hosting Commonwealth Games 2010 there is more demand of rooms in five star hotels. This has led to the rapid expansion of the sector. 3. Government support: The government has realized the importance of tourism and has proposed
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The word TOURISM refers tour which is derived from the Latin word "TORNUS" . It means a tool for describing a circle of turner’s wheel (Bhatia‚ 2002). It is very important pleasure activity where tourists travel from one to another countries and one region to another region as well.And Tourism also involves money for getting services and time.So‚ it basically result for temporary visit or move from their place to other places.Therefore facilities provided to visitors to satisfy their wants and needs
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Tourism in Pakistan has been stated by the Lonely Planet magazine as being the tourism industry’s "next big thing".[1] Pakistan‚ with its diverse cultures‚ people and landscapes attracted 1 million tourists in 2012[2] Pakistan’s tourism industry was in its heyday during the 1970s when the country received unprecedented amounts of foreign tourists‚ thanks to the Hippie trail. The main destinations of choice for these tourists were the Khyber Pass‚ Peshawar‚ Karachi‚ Lahore‚ Swat and Rawalpindi
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