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".[1] Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. After slowly recovering from the contraction resulting from the late-2000s recession‚ where tourism suffered a strong slowdown from the second half of 2008 through the
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SESSIONS th 19 – 20th October‚ 2012 Export Growth for Sustained Development TECHNICAL SESSION IV: SECTORAL DEVELOPMENT 2: Services Tourism and Entertainment Srilal Miththapala BSc (Eng) ;CEng; FIEE; FIH; Project Director‚ E U Switch Asia Programme Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project‚ Past President of the Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka World Tourism Tourism is referred to by many as the world ’s largest and fastest growing industry. It accounts for over 9% of global GDP‚ and in spite
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A Seminar Paper on Socio economic Impacts of Mobile Phone in Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study Seminar Paper On SOCIO ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF MOBILE PHONE IN BANGLADESH: An Exploratory Study Course Title : Seminar and Viva voce Course Code : BAN 200 Submitted To: Md. Zillur Rahman Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Shahjalal University of Science and Technology‚ Sylhet Submitted By: Syeda Fatima Banu Reg. No. 2009731007 Mohammad
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Cultural differences and conflicts in tourism: a case study of Dubai: Culture determines human behaviour and shows differences on how people do things and receive world. People are not consciously aware of their culture before they come across foreign culture. Foreign culture set situations where people feel uncomfortable which helps them to understand cultural differences. Elements generating cultural differences are such as language‚ religion and economics (Reisinger & Turner‚ 2003). Two
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM ~ ELIMINATING POVERTY (ST~EP) INTRODUCTION : At the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg‚ South Africa in August 2002‚ the World Tourism Organization (WTO)‚ supported by UNCTAD‚ took a global lead in this field‚ launching the concept of ‘Sustainable Tourism as an effective tool for Eliminating Poverty’ (ST~EP)‚ and beginning the process of putting a program in place to implement the concept. This initiative linked the longstanding WTO pursuit of Sustainable
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INTRODUCTION According to Collier (1997) tourism involves three aspects‚ it involves people(tourists) away from their usual habitat‚ the activities of people away from their usual habitat will normally give rise to an industry and the activities of both the people and the industry may or will have impact on the host community. 2.0 DISADVANTAGES OF TOURISM 2.1 THREATHEN INDIGENOUS IDENTITY Tourism gives positive impacts to a country but the impacts arise when tourism brings about changes in value systems
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Abstract With today’s complex tourism systems‚ the planning and management of these systems pose as a challenge to many. Tourist destinations‚ stakeholders and the tourists themselves play a part in working toward the sustainability of tourism. This article covers how the complexity of tourism has complicated the tourism industry and what new strategies can be implemented toward building a more sustainable tourism. Introduction The world today is a fast paced‚ ever growing economy and development
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How cultural environment impacts the marketing Culture Culture as described by Herks‚ M. cited by Rai University (n.d) “culture may be viewed as the sum total of man’s knowledge‚ beliefs‚ arts‚ morals‚ loves‚ customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”. It is the totality way of life for a man. The other definition by Hofstede (1980) cited by Jones‚ D. & McCarthy‚ J. (2004) states that “culture as the collective programming of the mind which distinguished
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Cross-cultural differences impact all interactions. Today we are going to look at how they impact the organization within a business. Many readers may not quite be here yet. But I thought this would be interesting to look at. Are There Differences? What makes an international business different? Does an international business function differently from one that is not international? Are there international growing pains? Apart from the legalities of operating an international company‚ it
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Task 3: Travel and Tourism‚ how it contributes to the UK Economy The importance of the UK tourism industry to the UK economy is often busy‚ yet it is the UK’s fifth largest industry and contributes £115bn to the UK economy. It has also been one of the rapidly growing sectors of the British economy over the past 20 years and employs around 2.6m people – around 8% of the total UK workforce. Inbound tourism Inbound tourism contributes to the UK economy as 29.8
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