therefore‚ travellers depended on the hospitality of others during their long nights away from home. Hospitality‚ otherwise known as xenia‚ was the stranger-host relationship between members of different regions. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ the poet shows that a character’s desire to be elite in society is what drives them to be hospitable. In particular‚ hospitality is shown to influence one’s social life through reputation‚ relationships and religion. Hospitality was the means to gain social status
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Political Singapore government has always been in favour of the tourism sector. In fact‚ Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched a $90million BOOST (building on opportunities to strengthen tourism) for the tourism sector). The initiative help pushed the industry through tough times by assisting MICE (Meetings‚ Incentives‚ Conventions‚ Exhibition) companies to alleviate their business costs (Singapore Tourism Board‚ 2009). Not too long ago‚ the Singapore government cooperated with Indonesia to develop cruise
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Carried out 04 Problems Encountered Due to Do this Assignments 05 Supervisors Hand Book 06 Stimulated Interview Activity 47 References 51 Introduction Supervision is very essential factor in the hospitality industry. The effectiveness of any organisation depends on its workforce. Supervision is important as a means of promoting managerial accountability. It also offers staff and their managers the opportunity to identify problems‚ acknowledge achievements
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lickin’ Good”‚ and the old man with white suits hand holding a black color crutch. Nowadays‚ we can see KFC in any shopping centre‚ or some popular location. We can get service or their product easily‚ it really convenient. I want to conduct a PEST analysis of this company. First I have to cover the history of KFC‚ and hat services and products that KFC provide. History of KFC KFC‚ Kentucky fried chicken is born at year 1950 at a remarkable pace from one road side restaurant into an internationally
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Technology – Time to play catch up To be successful in 2015‚ the industry needs to address these problems. The key areas of technological development are likely to be online booking and mobile technology‚ Customer Relationship Management (CRM)‚ smart card technology‚ online social networking‚ data security‚ Artificial Intelligence (AI)‚ self-healing technology and in-room product innovation. As online usage has soared over the last decade the internet has become a vital outlet for all retailers
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States Industry: Mass media Area served：Worldwide Employees: 180‚000 Vision: To make people happy 2.2. Background: The Walt Disney Company is an American diversified multinational mass media corporation‚ which is commonly known as Disney (Sammond‚ 2005). It is the world’s second largest broadcasting and Cable Company. However‚ it was only established in animation industry by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney in 1986. With the continuous development‚ the company begins to diversify its industry and products
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Business Ethics in Hospitality Brian Scott Angerer University of Phoenix In the hospitality industry ethical issues abound both for the business itself and the community at large. Business ethics is a complicated subject that can be described as‚ the behavior that a business
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3.2.2 PEST The key micro-environmental factors which might affect future performance of PMI can be identified as below: POLITICAL/ LEGAL Political barrier such as legal factor and government tax might become the hindrance for PMI to emerge its strategy in business operation. Cigarette is a product which has bad effect on the health‚ therefore imposes many strict regulations. A report on Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) stated that there are 2.3 billion of people protected from smoke free law
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The Role of Hospitality Hospitality plays a very big role in Greek life throughout The Odyssey. It was by this code of conduct that people were able to travel without the fear of being rejected and having nowhere to stay when they arrived at their destination or at a stage on their journey. A host never knew if the beggar on his/her doorstep was a god in disguise. Such paranoia and religious beliefs kept most of the characters in The Odyssey on their best behavior‚ but others had no manners to
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. PEST Analysis Political Few countries can compete with the Philippines when it comes to corruption which surprisingly involves the bookstore industry by way of the Bureau of Customs‚ according to Robin (2009) in his article “The Great Book Blockade”. Unfortunately‚ the customs official took their corruption to the shipping of books ever since the success of the international best seller book‚ Twilight by Stephen Meyer. When of the examiners of the customs official opened a shipment of books
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