Practices and Theories‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 1‚ 2012 (January)‚ e-ISSN 2247 – 7225 www.ijept.org Current and Future Trends in Tourism and Hospitality. The Case of Greece by Soultana (Tania) Kapiki Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki tkapiki@tour.teithe.gr Abstract. This paper identifies some of the current and future trends affecting the tourism and hospitality industry‚ including globalisation‚ guests’ safety and security‚ the importance of offering outstanding services‚ the new technologies
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Business Across Culture Week 3 Learning Journal Hospitality Across Culture Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host‚ or the act or practice of being hospitable. When coming to another country‚ we always want to make a good impression to the native people like showing them our hospitality. But sometimes‚ because of different culture our hospitality is considered as offence.So what should we do in this case? In case study‚ a typical situation
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Situational Leadership in Hospitality If one look at the nature of the hospitality industry‚ it is serviced-base‚ it is labor-intensive‚ it is renowned for its high staff turnover and labor diversity in term of age‚ culture‚ and background; one may conclude that the industry is all about people. When people become the most valuable asset of an organization‚ simply managing them is no longer sufficient to compete in today’s challenging business world. Leadership has become the new key operative word
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Chapter 7 Question reviews: 1: Why do hospitality firms need to advertise? What factors should be considered when planning an advertising strategy? Hospitalities firms advertise for a number of reasons: Advertise reach a vast audience. Advertising is relatively inexpensive. Advertising prompts audience response Advertising demonstrate competiveness 2: what types of media are available for print advertising‚ and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each type? Print advertising:
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of service quality The Gap model of service quality was developed by Parasuraman‚ Berry and Zeithaml (1985)‚ and more recently described in Zeithaml and Bitner (2003). It has served as a framework for research in services marketing‚ including hospitality marketing‚ for over two decades. The model identifies four specific gaps leading to a fifth overall gap between customers’ expectations and perceived service. The five gaps x Customers have expectations for service experiences and they use them
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Challenges For Hospitality Industry | | 1. Shortage of skilled employees:One of the greatest challenges plaguing the hospitality industry is the unavailability of quality workforce in different skill levels. The hospitality industry has failed to retain good professionals. 2. Retaining quality workforce:Retention of the workforce through training and development in the hotel industry is a problem and attrition levels are too high. One of the reasons for this is unattractive wage packages.
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Environmental‚ Health‚ and Safety Guidelines TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY DEVELOPMENT WORLD BANK GROUP Environmental‚ Health‚ and Safety Guidelines for Tourism and Hospitality Development Introduction The Environmental‚ Health‚ and Safety (EHS) Guidelines are technical reference documents with general and industryspecific examples of Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) 1. When one or more members of the World Bank Group are involved in a project‚ these EHS Guidelines are applied as required
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FOE_C02.qxd 1/15/07 14:45 Page 16 »2 The production possibility frontier (curve): the PPF or PPC The starting point in our economic analysis is to consider what an economy can produce. As consumers we may want many things‚ but there is a limit to what our economy can actually produce. This can be analysed using the production possibility frontier (PPF). In this unit we examine the factors that determine how much an economy can produce and the implications of different output decisions
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Schultz’s Growing Frustration On Schultz’s return from Italy‚ he shared his revelation and ideas for modifying the format of Starbucks stores with Baldwin and Bowker. But instead of winning their approval‚ Schultz encountered strong resistance. Baldwin and Bowker argued that Starbucks was a retailer‚ not a restaurant or bar. They feared that serving drinks would put them in the beverage business and dilute the integrity of Starbucks’ mission as a coffee store. They pointed out that Starbucks was
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PART 1: Hospitality industry is very wide and prosperous. All the businesses providing accommodations‚ catering‚ transportation‚ for people away from their homes are considered as hospitality organizations. The growth and the challenges of this industry are not solely dependent on the organizations and companies involved in it but also on the business environment. Business environment can be explained as set of external factors and forces‚ i.e. social‚ economic‚ political‚ technological‚ which
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