Examine the impact of UK retirement migration to the Mediterranean on source and host regions. (15m) Jan 2010 The ageing population from the UK are migrating in considerable numbers to the Mediterranean. An example of this is Spain; this has both positive and negative impacts on the source and host nations. The source nation is the place from which migrants came‚ and the host nation is the place where the migrants are accepted into. There are a number of positives for the source country. There is
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Economic development & marketing Destination marketing plan Fremantle 2011 to 2015 “Tourism is not a community service; it is a commercial industry‚ the intent being to attract visitors so that they spend their money with destination services and businesses. It is also highly competitive locally‚ regionally and internationally due to the huge benefit potential from successful tourism marketing. Public support of tourism is about economic development rather than community service. Tourism is about
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Migration and Development Brief Migration and Remittances Unit World Bank 13 November 8‚ 2010 Outlook for Remittance Flows 2011-12 Recovery after the crisis‚ but risks lie ahead By Sanket Mohapatra‚ Dilip Ratha and Ani Silwal1 Officially recorded remittance flows to developing countries are estimated to increase by 6 percent to $325 billion in 2010. This marks a healthy recovery from a 5.5 percent decline registered in 2009. Remittance flows are expected to increase by 6.2 percent in
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domestic spend in London is for business‚ a much higher proportion than for England overall. Share of Domestic Tourism Spend England 56 20 221 Holiday/leisure Business VFR Other Share of Domestic Tourism Spend London 43 319 35 Holiday/leisure Business VFR Other Where do Domestic Overnight Visitors to London Come From? Inbound Spend Almost half of inbound spend in London is from holiday/leisure visits‚ higher than the national average. Where do Inbound Visitors
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Border protection has been an issue in the United States for much longer than what most Americans would think. Citizens in today’s society seem to think of border protection has a job for the border patrol to catch illegal aliens and drugs being smuggled into this country. The truth is that border protection is much more than just catching the smuggling. Some seem to forget much about our history of trade and imports. Where is this nation heading with our borders. Is building walls the answer or
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Recent conceptual work on tourism destination competitiveness has proposed a comprehensive approach that adds industry-level competitiveness attributes to more conventional tourism destination attributes. This study builds on these ideas by generating sets of both attributes‚ developing a methodology for assessing their relative importance and examining the degree to which their relative importance varies across locations. Survey data were gathered from tourism industry practitioners in three
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The International Forum of Travel and Tourism Advocates defines tourism as the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited and also refers to the sector of the national economy with complex functions that unites a number of goods and services‚ offer for consumption to those people. (IFTTA)
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examining Hurston’s works of migration literature is why she chooses the South as a destination for her migrant characters. Hurston traveled extensively throughout Florida‚ Georgia‚ Alabama‚ and even to Haiti‚ Jamaica‚ and the Bahamas‚ with the intention of capturing and sharing the traditions of rural folk culture‚ which as I note in the next chapter of this thesis‚ helps her to form part of the migrant stranger identity that permeates her version of the migration narrative. Hurston successfully
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The United States and Mexico border has been a contention for many years now in the context of its security. Although much has been done from‚ increasing Border Patrol Agents to adding fences there is still a large number of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border with Mexico. Despite all these means of security and any other humane means at the United States disposal‚ nothing will stop immigrants from crossing the border illegally as long as they do not remain completely open. Fencing
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Border Patrol On September 11‚ 2001 lives of U.S citizens were changed forever. Not only have the U. S. troops been in war against the Taliban for 11 years‚ but even for everyday civilian’s travel methods now require more security. Another change was the government who added a special department in the cabinet that is for stopping terrorism and threats that could harm or hurt United States citizens. One of the twenty-two agencies in the Department Of Homeland Security is the Border Patrol agency
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