International tourism to reach one billion in 2012 PR No.: PR12002 Madrid 16 Jan 12 International tourist arrivals grew by over 4% in 2011 to 980 million‚ according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. With growth expected to continue in 2012‚ at a somewhat slower rate‚ international tourist arrivals are on track to reach the milestone one billion mark later this year. International tourist arrivals grew by 4.4% in 2011 to a total 980 million‚ up from 939 million in 2010‚ in a year
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Pestel Analysis of Mobile Phone Industry Political Mobile phones have now become a tool with which political parties can directly target voters. People with smartphones can now receive video advertisements and messages via the internet. According to the Economic Intelligence Unit (2012)‚ 83% of Americans who own a smartphone or tablet are registered to vote. This new gimmick is called “m-campaigning” and is currently most common in America. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both using this as
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International Journal of Business and Management; Vol. 7‚ No. 24; 2012 ISSN 1833-3850 E-ISSN 1833-8119 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Developing a Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for PESTEL Analysis İhsan Yüksel1 1 Department of Business Management ‚ Kırıkkale University‚ Kırıkkale‚ Turkey Correspondence: İhsan Yüksel‚ Department of Business Management‚ Kırıkkale University‚ 7140 Kırıkkale‚ Turkey. Tel: 90-318-3573860. E-mail: yuksel@kku.edu.tr Received:
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PESTEL Analysis In this part all factors‚ which influence the company as a whole but are out of their direct control including wider social‚ political and economic factors shall be explained. The analysis of those factors of the macro-environment is therefore often known as PESTEL analysis.3 PESTEL is an acronym for the six key strategic areas of change: Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Ecological and Legal and a technique for understanding the various external influences on a business4
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PESTEL Analysis The PESTEL framework evaluates the external environment variables to identify general opportunities and risks of particular strategies. 3.1 Political With selling cars in 17 countries ‚Tesla Motors has to deal with distinctive political patterns influencing its business operations.One of the major political factors affecting the industry is environmental protection laws to induce production of more environmental cars to meet strict emission levels. The second important factor is US government energy loan programs for
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goods in the global marketing is extremely challenging. Discuss the major political‚ economic‚ socio-cultural‚ technological‚ legal and ecological challenges that a global marketing manager may have to contend with? The following analysis known as the PESTEL analysis is a framework used to scan the organization’s external macro environment which refers to forces that are part of the larger society and affect the micro environment. Selling and marketing goods in the global market intensifies these
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PESTEL Analysis Political The government reduced drinks driving and binge drinking have resulted in a decline in beer consumption. Also‚ the introduction of the ’No Smoking in public buildings’ law would have an impact on people drinking in pubs. Economical Whilst sales volume have fallen‚ sale value has increased. This is due to premium products such as fruit beers. Large supermarkets are offering cut price deals to entice customers into their shops. There has been a high rise in packaging
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PESTEL-analysis for shipbuilding industry at the Russian Far East Group of factors Representation Conclusion (O/T) Political factors Governmental policy Tax policy Russian – Chinese and Russian-South Korean relationships Level governmental subsidies World Oil & Gas market Concentration of governmental efforts for construction and development of infrastructure of Russian fleet. Maintenance of good technical condition of Russian fleet for successful completing of its goals and
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PESTEL ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN BREWING INDUSTRY Political * Government organising public events in order to make public aware about the effects of alcohol consumption on the health. * Government is imposing restrictions on consumption of beer and alcohol products. * If anyone is influenced by alcohol in doing crime they are fined with high penalty. This initiative taken by the government was one of the reasons that transformed the buying behaviour of European market. Though would be classified
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PESTEL analysis Political/Legal Environment Over the past several years‚ there has seen a plethora of patent lawsuits within the smartphone industry. In the highlycompetitive environment‚ manufacturers of handsets have been aggressive in protecting their intellectual properties by suingcompetitors by claiming infringements on patents. For example‚ in March 2010‚ Apple sued HTC for allegedly infringing on20 Apple patents (Weil‚ 2010). Apple also sued Nokia in 2010 for similar patent infringements("Patent
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