| Tourism and Development | Individual assignment task: Why is tourism selected as development tool by so many developing nations? | | The introduction of this essay will be focus on tourism reality selected as a development tool by many developing nations. Development has usually been treated as a process‚ a particular kind of social change. Nevertheless‚ development is also a state or condition. Whenever a society is called developed or underdeveloped we refer to its present condition
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Nowadays tourism is very popular because people want to indulge themselves and forget about their regular tedious routine or just simply they have a thirst for adventure. It is obvious that tourism is a congenial activity and by going on an outing you can easily boost the spirits or recharge your batteries. Nobody can deny that an idle excursion when you let your hair down is a respite from a frenetic way of living. Besides the fact that tourism has a special charm it also has some flaws and it
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Tourism: The New Face of Botswana’s Economy An Analysis By: Stu Dent Submitted to the Desk of: Dr. Burton Date of Completion: Thursday‚ December 2‚ 1992 Country Profile Botswana‚ a landlocked county‚ in one of Africa’s best success stories. A struggling economy was given a new life as Botswana became one of the world’s leading producers in diamonds (BIDPA) and is currently viewed as a middle-income country. It is a country rich
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responsible‚ ecologically sustainable and advantageous to the local communities by creating jobs and improving living conditions overall. Palawan is the second biggest province in the country in terms of land area and has been recommended by the tourism department as the top eco-destination in the country. The Ethics of Ecotourism in the PhilippinesAround thirty percent of the people in the Philippines live in poverty‚ and there are 85 million people who live there. That’s nearly 25.5 million impoverished
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Dark Tourism Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites‚ attractions and exhibitions that have real or recreated death‚ suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme. Tourist visits to former battlefields‚ slavery-heritage attractions‚ prisons‚ cemeteries‚ particular museum exhibitions‚ Holocaust sites‚ or to disaster locations all constitute the broad realm of ‘dark tourism’. The Institute of Dark Tourism Research (iDTR) at the University of Lancashire in England in 2012 marks
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Attraction Tourism Introduction: There are many attractions and tourism interests which influence people decision to travel. Depending on ones particular taste in adventure‚ there are many options to tourism and attractions that one can enjoy‚ discovering what and where are the questions that people commonly search for when seeking an educational and exciting vacation. People enjoy the experience of traveling‚ and discovering new things‚ they like experiencing travel‚ attractions and tourism. People
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The destination I would like to choose and provide an overview is Hong Kong. Hong Kong is one of the two special administrative regions of the People ’s Republic of China; the other is Macau. Hong Kong is situated on the southeast coast of China at the mouth of the Pearl River facing the South China Sea. Covering an area of 1‚104 square kilometers (425 square miles)‚ the territory is made up of Hong Kong Island‚ the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories. At the core is Victoria Harbour‚ which
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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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Term paper On Tourism in Bangladesh On ENG 101 Submitted to Farhana Zareen Bashar Lecturer Dept. of English East West University Submitted by Name:Marufa khan ID :2009-3-10-043 DEPT:BBA Submission Date: East University West Introduction Tourism is often synonymous to traveling for pleasure and education. It is also a business of attracting tourists and providing for their accommodation and entertainment. In many countries‚ tourism is an industry for earning Inland Revenue and foreign exchange
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DEATH BY TOURISM By Arnold Baker At the entrance to one of the ruined temples in Petra in Jordan‚ there is an inscription chiselled into the soft red rock. It looks as if it has been there for centuries. It could have been carved by one of Herod’s soldiers‚ when they were imprisoned in the town in 40BC. However‚ closer inspection reveals that it is not ancient at all. It reads: Shane and Wendy from Sydney were here. June 16th 1996 The ruins of Petra were discovered in 1810 by a Swiss explorer
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