Modern methods of transport have transformed our world into a village. Is this a blessing or a curse? In some respects the topic-statement is true. Modern transport‚ especially by air‚ allows people to circle the globe in a few days‚ or hours‚ if an aircraft such as Concorde is used. Thus we have learnt to look upon distance as nothing. I can get to Paris from south-east England quicker than I can get to central London. So‚ the world has become a village? If so‚ the comparison ends there
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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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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING TOURISM Tourism - Comprises the activities of persons traveling 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 country Tourism refers to the movement of people from one geographical location to another for the purpose of engaging in leisure and/or business acts‚ and the economic transactions
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Executive Summary Cruise tourism is becoming an increasingly popular “leisure choice” worldwide‚ and keeping this point in mind cruise tourism potential of India is vast and is still in infancy stage. Mumbai as the commercial capital and gate way of India possess the great potential of cruise tourism as this place sees the highest number of tourist coming in and going out so it becomes the necessity of the time to convert Mumbai port from “port of call” to “home port”. This report has been prepared
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Communication Accommodation Theory Communication between two people from different groups is often accommodated in the way of speaking to gain approval. Howard Giles first introduced this theory in 1973 and it has been held true since (Griffin‚ 2012‚ p.394). His theory specifically focuses on the nonverbal adjustments of rate of speech‚ pauses‚ and accent. Giles and other communication scholars believe that communication accommodation is used to seek appreciation of those from diverse cultures
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Museums and tourism Stakeholders‚ resource and sustainable development Master’s Dissertation International Museum Studies Museion/Göteborg University Spring term 2004 Author: Guðbrandur Benediktsson Supervisor: Cajsa Lagerkvist LIST OF CONTENTS FOREWORD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1. Aims and objectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2. Theoretical approaches and sources. . . . . . . .
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A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation‚ attracting visitors for holidays orvacations. Resorts are places‚ towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company. Such a self-contained resort attempts to provide for most of a vacationer’s wants while remaining on the premises‚ such as food‚ drink‚ lodging‚ sports‚ entertainment‚ and shopping. Destination resort A destination resort is a resort that contains‚ in and of itself‚ the necessary guest attraction capabilities—that
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Tourism in India Tourism is the largest service industry in India‚ with a contribution of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the total employment in India. India witnesses more than 5 million annual foreign tourist arrivals and 562 million domestic tourism visits.[2][3] The tourism industry in India generated about US$100 billion in 2008 and that is expected to increase to US$275.5 billion by 2018 at a 9.4% annual growth rate.[4] In the year 2009‚ 5.11 million foreign tourists visited India.
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defined by the World Tourism Organization (WTO)‚ tourism comprises 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. Key concepts of sustainable development and sustainable tourism‚ values and ethics of sustainable tourism and the needs of sustainability in all form of tourism shall be discussed in this essay. 2.1 Sustainable Tourism Since World War II‚ tourism has developed from
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What is Tourism? 1. Tourism is the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence‚ the facilities created to cater to their needs 2. The tourism and tourism sector is a broad range of economic activities and services‚ all-encompassing term which includes accommodation‚ catering‚ transport and ancillary services. It is multidisciplinary. Transport for tourism (MTR ‚ BUS) 1.Related to cost and speed 2.No direct intrinsic value 3.Cost rather than
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