Research Methods for Hospitality and Tourism Managers Introduction The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop understanding and skills in research design‚ research methods and research presentation. Learning outcomes On successful completion of the module‚ students will be able to: i) critically evaluate a range of research methods that can be applied in a hospitality and tourism context; ii) plan and implement hospitality and tourism research project. Indicative content
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Despite operating in one of the most unattractive industries‚ Southwest Airlines has being very successful in its operations. Its operational success can be attributed to the use of a single aircraft type by the airlines targeted at minimizing the maintenance as well as the operational costs (Jackson et al.‚ 2011). The airline also targets the smaller as well as the less congested airports to minimize delays as well as schedule disruptions. The aircrafts are easily turned around easily minimizing
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Porters Five Force Analysis‚ Industry: Casinos The purpose of this analysis is to determine the attractiveness of the Casino industry by investigating five specific forces that have the potential to drive down profitability. The Casino industry is composed of firms operating primarily in providing gambling activities and games to consumers while also supplying hotel services and other commodities. Firms that exclusively operate non gambling resorts were not directly included in this profitability
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Porter generic strategies Michael Porter described three types of strategy to achieve/maintain competitive advantage in his 1980 work Competitive strategy: techniques for analysing industries and competitors. (CS:TAIC) These generic strategies are based on two dimensions: market scope + core competency with two competencies being the most important: product differentiation/product cost. [pic] Porter (1980) stressed that failure to adopt single strategy of differentiation or low cost results in
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4 4.1 Internal Analysis 4 4.2External Analysis 4 5.Porter’s five forces 4 6.Porter’s value chain 5 7.Stakeholders Mapping 6 8.Ansoff Matrix 7 9.BCG Matrix
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Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Michael Porter identified five forces that influence an industry. These forces are: (1) degree of rivalry; (2) threat of substitutes; (3) barriers to entry; (4) buyer power; and (5) supplier power. For more on this framework proposed by Porter‚ please see Appendix C. Like other industries operating under free market‚ capitalistic systems‚ viewing the automotive industry through the lens of Porter’s Five Forces can be helpful in understanding the forces at play. Degree
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Porter’s Five Forces The Threat of New Entrants (Low) There is a great amount of economies of learning and scale in the oil industry for Example BP has been searching for oil since 1901. They invest a huge amount in up-to-date technologies making it difficult for new entrants to compete. His obviously requires huge capital investments in R&D as well as start-up cost‚ for example a truck just to carry the oil costs over $1‚000‚000. There is a lot of regulation in the industry especially with
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Airline Assignment Table of Contents 1 Brief history of Easyjet 3 2 Brief history of KLM 3 3 Marketing Mix (7P’s) 4 3.1 Price 4 3.1.1 Price List 4 3.1.2 Allowances 4 3.1.3 Discounts 4 3.1.4 Payment period 5 3.1.5 Credit terms 5 3.2 Product and services 6 3.3 Promotion 7 3.4 Place 8 3.5 Process 9 3.5.1 Check-in 9 3.5.2 Boarding the plane 10 3.5.3 Customer support service 10 3.6 Physical evidence 11 3.7 People 11 3.7.1 Management 11 3.7.2 Managing
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Porter’s Five Forces is a groundwork for industry analysis and business strategy development which was invented by Michael Porter in 1979. Three of Porter’s five forces relates to competition from external sources. The remaining two are internal threats. These five forces include three forces from horizontal competition such as the threat of substitute products or services‚ the threat of established rivals‚ and the threat of new entrants. The two forces from the vertical competition
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Response to Week 2 DQ: Five Forces Model framework developed by Professor Michael‚ E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979‚ is a powerful strategic business assessment tool useful in strategic assessment of business position in a volatile competitive market situation to understand where the business competitive power positions and analyze both the current competitive strength and the position which the business is intended to move into to gain profitability while and customer’s desirability’s
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