www.elsevier.com/locate/atoures Annals of Tourism Research‚ Vol. 28‚ No. 2‚ pp. 360–377‚ 2001 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0160-7383/01/$20.00 PII: S0160-7383(00)00051-7 OUTDOOR ADVENTURE TOURISM A Review of Research Approaches Karin Weber La Trobe University‚ Australia Abstract: A review of the existing literature on adventure tourism reveals that research on this subject has so far focused mainly on preconceived notions of scholars and
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Prospects of Garment Industry in Bangladesh: 1. Financial Prospect: Over the last fifteen years or so the garments industries have emerged as the largest source of earning foreign currency. Industry Sector: 2.5 In the industry sector‚ which contributed 29.7 percent of GDP‚ growth rate slowed down from 6.8 percent of FY08 to 5.9 percent in FY09. Within this sub-sector knitwear‚ rice milling‚ dairy products‚ leather products‚ footwear‚ embroidery‚ wooden furniture‚ paper and paper products‚ nonmetallic
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INTRODUCTION Can the Bahamas survive without branching into other areas of tourism? The tourism industry today is big business for a country‚ it is the number one industry of the Bahamas. It is the migration of individuals from one place to another for a short period of time. There are two types of tourism‚ domestic and foreign. People travel for recreation‚ business‚ sports‚ education and for religious or medical purposes. Tourism is a very competitive industry. It accounts for seventy percent of the
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Executive summary The following report provides the information about the tourism in Serbia. Serbia falls into two geographic region of Central and South-east Europe. Serbia is mainly known for adventurous tourism. Serbia is also blessed with various sceneries‚ rivers‚ monasteries‚ curative spas and many more. Serbia has got many types of tourism like; Spa tourism‚ adventure‚ cultural and rural tourism. The report shows statistical record of tourist inflows from domestic as well as from international
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HOëRSKOOL “Life is not a problem to be solved‚ but a reality to be experienced” NAME: KGWATALALA THABANG SUBJECT: TOURISM STUDENT NO: 1152 GRADE: 11(KEY 6) TOPIC: CONFERENCE TOURISM YEAR: 2014 1.1 Introduction Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa’s first all-race elections on 27 April 1994. It was initially named Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (PWV) and was renamed "Gauteng"
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Eco – Cities Mehraz Khaleghi Kerahroodi This week‚ unlike previous weeks‚ we face societies who could effectively manage their cities‚ in terms of environmental aspects. Their success is‚ mostly‚ linked to strong mayoral leadership and people’s active participation in city programs; purchasing city-issues bond or even collecting garbage. These actions showed their commitment to sustainable development. But‚ this couldn’t be done without good understanding of local culture. Besides‚ these
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Tourism in India: With a view to earning foreign exchange India wants to develop her tourist-industry. Since a pretty long time Kashmir has become a regular receiver of tourists. Innumerable number of people come from abroad to visit this prettiest place of India. Most of the people of Kashmir earn their bread and fortune by dealing with the tourists in various ways getting money from the tourists through hotels‚ restaurants‚ rest houses‚ boat-houses‚ conveyances and by hawking‚ peddling and guiding
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surrounded by Zambia‚ Tanzania and Mozambique. The capital of Malawi is Lilongwe; other main notable towns are Blantyre‚ Zomba and Mzuzu. Malawi is governed by president DR Bingu Wa Mutharika‚ who has been in power since May 2004. History of tourism in Malawi refers back to the early 1960s after all the colonisations and independence for the country. It was not run by anyone till Banda made himself president in 1966. The country made some improvement in the economy‚ by the 1980’s Malawi’s dream
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Market Equilibrating Process Paper ECO/561 February 15‚ 2011 Market Equilibrating Process Paper The principles of economics influence people’s lives every day. Consumers make purchases driven by need for food‚ gasoline‚ and a myriad of other goods and services to sustain their daily lives. Economists have made a career developing theories attempting to quantify the rationale of consumption. This paper will attempt to describe the most common principles of economics. These principles include
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TOURISM “…tourism should be defined conceptually as those aspects of leisure-time behaviour and their consequences which occur as a result of temporary trips away from the home environment and which are motivated exclusively by a concern for recreation matters.” (Heeley‚ 1980) 2. “…tourist as someone travelling for any purpose except commuting to and from work…” [ (Hunt & Layne‚ 1991) ] 3. “…Tourism appears to be becoming an acceptable term to singularly describe the activity of people
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