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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Religious Tourism in Asia and the Pacific Religious Tourism in Asia and the Pacific ii Copyright © 2011‚ World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Calle Capitán Haya‚ 42 28020 Madrid‚ Spain Religious Tourism in Asia and the Pacific ISBN-13: 978-92-844-1380-5 Published and printed by the World Tourism Organization‚ Madrid‚ Spain First printing: 2011 All rights reserved The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinions
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Technology and tourism Anna Baines The author Anna Baines is a freelance journalist. Abstract The travel and tourism industry is starting to exploit technology. This is going to change the nature of the services offered‚ and the nature of work within the industry. Employers and employees may have different perceptions about the likely benefits of technology. Discusses the changes at the “higher” and “lower” organisational levels and suggests that the industry is only partially prepared for the
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | How might ‘creativity’‚ rather than flagship developments‚ help to regenerate local communities?| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Essay Introduction Presently ‘creativity’ seems to be a cure-all for a variety of problems. Lot of research has been done on the topic of creativity and its role in different field such as creative cities (Landry‚ 2000)‚ creative clusters (Mommaas‚ 2009)‚ creative industries (O’Connor
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------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Cultural Tourism 3 3. Where Can Cultural Tourism Be Found 3 4. Resources Required in Cultural Tourism 4 5. Businesses‚ Suppliers and Partners in Cultural Tourism 4 6. Target Audience 5 7. How it is attractive 5 8. Challenges and Issues 6 9. Possible Solutions 7 References 8 1. Introduction Cultural tourism is the topic that will be discussed on and the country of choice is Turkey.
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Key Notes: Space Tourism is the term that’s come to be used to mean ordinary members of the public buying tickets to travel to space and back. Many people find this idea futuristic. But over the past few years a growing volume of professional work has been done on the subject‚ and it’s now clear that setting up commercial space tourism services is a realistic target for business today. But this idea of Space Tourism isn’t at all familiar to most people‚ including the space industry‚ who are used
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Tourism in Malaysia Tourism means activities that occur when tourists travel and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than a year for business‚ leisure and etc. It is the second largest foreign exchange earner‚ after manufacturing. Positive impact of tourism industry on economy 1. Contributed to foreign exchange earnings Tourism expenditures and the export and import of related goods and services generate income to the host economy and can stimulate the investment necessary
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Tourism can generate large amount of revenues and provide job opportunities globally. Tourism is often treated as means to develop the country and to make the country known worldwide. This leads to the construction of infrastructure and facilities which are placed in locations which has the tendency to generate revenue in conjunction to tourism. However‚ the environment‚ economy and socio-culture suffers from the acts of tourism due to the activities carried out by tourist‚ thus creating negative
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CHAPTER 3 FORMS OF TOURISM Forms of tourism can be discussed in terms of the displacement of persons within certain conditions. These trips always take the visitors outside their usual environment‚ but might take them also outside their country of residence into another economy. Forms of tourism can also be discussed in terms of the different types of tourism in a particular country‚ i.e. ecotourism‚ sports tourism‚ health tourism‚ etc. FORMS OF TOURISM - DISPLACEMENT OF PERSONS In economic measurement
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Abstract Tourism research has evolved from the time when studies on tourism were based in other disciplines to become an academic research field of its own. Tourism critical theory is the pinnacle of that development. Today research in tourism is done using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. If the research is designed to prove a theory it takes the deductive strategy while on the other hand inductive strategy is used to generate theory. The developments are not only in the approaches
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