HISTORY OF TOURISM Early Travel Early peoples tended to stay in one place. Travel was essentially to seek food or to escape danger. The Bible makes reference to travel for purposes of trade. In ancient times we began to see the development of routes for the purpose of facilitating trade and the creation of specialized‚ if somewhat crude‚ vehicles specifically for traveling. The growth of cities along water ways‚ such as the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea‚ encouraged the development of water
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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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8 DOI: 10.2298/IJGI1203081M DEVELOPMENT OF „DARK“ TOURISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY Natalija Minić *1 * University of Belgrade‚ Faculty of Geography Received 13 July 2012; reviewed 4 October 2012; accepted 12 December 2012 Abstract: The paper focuses on the development of „dark“ tourism as a type of special interest tourism. The study included analysis of the definition of „dark“ tourism‚ tourist motivations for this type of tourism‚ Stone ’ s typology of dark destination offers‚ and a
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Introduction Tourism is one of the world’s fastest growing industries and is a major source of income for many countries. Being a people-oriented industry‚ tourism also provides many jobs which have helped revitalise local economies. However‚ like other forms of development‚ tourism can also cause its share of problems‚ such as social dislocation‚ loss of cultural heritage‚ economic dependence and ecological degradation. Learning about the impacts of tourism has led many people to seek more responsible
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Introduction The conditions of the global travel agency industry have significantly changed over recent years‚ mainly because of the development of the new technologies‚ electronic commerce and the major changes in tourism consumer behaviour. Increasingly‚ people are booking their travel over the Internet‚ directly from the suppliers or on electronic retailer’s websites affecting traditional travel agencies on the high street. Further‚ the market starts to show signs of overload because of the
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Darryl Eugene Collins Tourism Management Hospitality 450 Instructor: Professor Marco Albarran Week 1 Assignment Chapter 1: Tourism in Perspective Chapter 2: Tourism through the Ages Chapter 3: Career Opportunities September 9‚ 2012 Chapter 1: Tourism in Perspective CASE PROBLEMS 1. Suppose that you are a high school economics teacher. You plan to visit your principal’s office and convince her that tourism should be included as part of one of your courses. What arguments
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Julia Dmitrieva‚ gr. 7441 Safe tourism: the way forward While terrorism affects tourism and a lot has been discussed and spoken about it‚ there is a lack of clarity about tourism and its effects on terrorism. Over the past decade‚ acts of terrorism have taken place at tourist sites‚ as well as places where people have gathered in large numbers. Be it Bali‚ New York‚ Mumbai‚ or Madrid the repercussions have been felt the world over. Over the past couple of years‚ a number of stringent security
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Chinese Tourists’ Travel motivations And their resultant preferred travel activities. An analysis of past studies of Chinese outbound tourist from the past six years sets up a framework of Chinese outbound tourist motivations and their resultant activities. Sanne Leuenhagen Petersen Cand.negot. International Tourism and Leisure Management‚ SDU Esbjerg 12-11-2009 Table of content Abstract ...................................................................................................
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tourist. One step‚ our country have do promotion lower package. Promotion lower package can attract foreign tourist come visit to Malaysia. Promotion lower package such as lower price for accommodation for tourists‚ transport system for visit to tourism places and other. Besides promotion lower package to increase the number of tourist visit to Malaysia‚ our country can to prepare good quality to tourist.Good quality a mean our country to prepare more facilities‚ accommodation‚ safely and other.
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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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