analysis of the management and socio-economic impacts of Sport Tourism Events in Cape Town and Durban (Dr Deborah Johnson‚ 2010). 2.3 Sport tourism perspectives Sport tourism is recognised as one of the fastest growing segments within the tourism industry (Getz‚ 1998). The Olympic Games‚ the world’s most famous event‚ is an example of a mega sport tourism event. In the world of sport‚ events can range from a local basketball tournament to professional games. Sport tourism events have potential to capture
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Tourism Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes" Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011‚ there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide‚ representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to US$ 940 billion in 2010.[2][3] International
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The Cultural Impact of Hip Hop Music The Main Impact of Hip-hop music is on the Kids of today. The music‚ slang and clothing are a couple of examples of heavy influences. Why can’t they be more like ... actually kids today are pretty much the same are their parents and grandparents were when it comes to creating their own culture. Only now‚ instead of flappers‚ hippies or punks‚ we’ve got a generation of youths influenced by hip-hop culture. It’s hard to argue that the current domination of
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Positive impact The mongol empire was tremendous at making a huge impact on the world. I think that what the mongols left behind has a positive impact on the world today for a different amount of reasons. The mongolians have left a range of technology around for an example the pony express or the idea of chemical warfare all of these things are a positive to us now because we have advanced from that and increased our protection and that’s why I think the impact that genghis kahn left behind is positive
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HOW DOES TOURISM IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT The effect of tourism on the environment can be both positive and negative. Each person or group of people will impact the area they visit in a different way. Whether it is in a negative or positive manner is entirely up to the visitor. Let’s consider the NEGATIVE impacts first: POLLUTION - This is probably the biggest negative factor concerning tourism. People have to travel to their destination. It doesn’t matter if it’s by plane to another country or
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Compare and contrast socio-cultural of northern Europe and Middle East. Human beings differentiate and organise themselves into functioning communities from a particular terrain or location. This grouping into functional behaviour or manners is what we name as society that relates to communal living. Communal living includes social classes‚ problems as well as matters affecting human welfare. Every society has its own norms‚ a common or a dominant culture. Culture is described to be distinctive
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Research Proposal On Impact of Socio Economic Condition on Academic Achievement of Students Introduction Education provides individual children with the knowledge and skills necessary to advance themselves and their nation economically. Socioeconomic factors‚ such as family income level‚ parents ’ level of education‚ race and gender‚ all influence the quality and availability of education as well as the ability of education to improve life circumstances. (Jennifer‚ 2005). A person’s education
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Being held in the incarceration system has been seen to negatively impact how the prisoners succeed when they leave prison and reenter society. Some of these barriers include education‚ employment‚ finances‚ housing‚ and family reunification. Forty three per cent of sentenced prisoners said they had lost touch with their families since coming to prison; and over one in five who were married when they came to prison had since divorced or separated (SEU‚ 112). Social isolation makes it hard for the
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DISSERTATION TITLE. The impact of tourism in Greece: Future trends and prospects. SUMMARY. The aim of this study is to investigate tourism impact in Greece into the socio economic life‚ as well as for small and big businesses‚ since tourism is one of the most prominent factors of Greek development. The findings were very interesting‚ since it clearly appeared that tourism tendency will be a very dynamic factor over the next years ‚ therefore‚ Greece as well as other tourist destinations‚ need
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discern what is misleading and what is trustworthy as we travel through this maze of differing opinions on our way to a conclusions as to just how globalization has impacted our world and why the United States is most often blamed for these changes. Positives & Negatives of Globalization Although the obvious benefits of globalization are an interdependent world‚ at first glance it is hard to see just how sharing our resources globally to produce goods efficiently could be bad or even hazardous to anyone
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