"A life is not important except in the impact it has on others’ lives." This quote was said by Jackie Robinson who was important in paving the way for other black athletes in professional sports. He was the first black baseball player to play in Major League Baseball.What would professional sports be without all the greatest black athletes such as Michael Jordan‚ Muhammad Ali or Jackie Robinson? Today the NBA is filled with a large majority of African American players. The NBA would be nothing without
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fulfilled. TOURISM IMPACTS Tourism impacts are the effects that tourists and tourists activities have on a destination. We will be looking at three main types of impacts that tourism can have on a destination. They are environmental‚ socio-cultural as well as economic impacts. The word impact gives a negative meaning however tourism impacts can be both positive and negative on a destination. Environmental Impacts (physical – what can be seen) – It is not possible to develop tourism without incurring
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Socio-cultural Impact of Eco-Tourism Dr. Anjani Kumar Abstract Ecotourism is entirely a new approach in tourism. Born in its current form in late 1980s‚ ecotourism came of in age in 2002‚ when the United Nations celebrated the “International year of Ecotourism. Today’s market place is becoming greener and more environmentally sensitive than ever‚ with 85 percent of the industrialized world does citizen believe that the environment is the number one public
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Value of Social Media for Tourism Introduction Social media is a generic term for online technologies and practices that people adopt to share texts‚ images‚ video and audio. Professors Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as a group of Internet applications based on assumptions ideological and technology of Web 2.0 that enable the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Partridge 2011‚ 108). Social media is fundamentally a change in the way people learn‚ read
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Introduction According to World Travel and Tourism Council 1997‚ “Tourism Industry is the world’s prominent industries contributing $3.6 trillion to the global gross domestic product (GDP) and employing 255 million people”. (Apostolopoulos‚ Sonmez &Tarlow 1999). It is also considered one of the most exciting and progressive industries which has a big impact on all other industries. Although tourism industry has shown tremendous growth in recent years providing incredible experiences
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A research report on Impact of tourism on traditional culture of NamoBudhha Submitted to International School of Tourism and Hotel Management Dillibazar‚ Kathmandu‚ Nepal Submitted by SanamAcharya 4th semester Section D 2014 August Declaration I hereby declare that this study entitled “Impact of Tourism on Traditional Culture of Namo Buddha” is based on my original research work. Related works used in this study by other authors and researchers have been duly acknowledged
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Impact of Current Events and Trends on Tourism Threats of terrorism‚ pandemic outbreaks‚ natural calamities and‚ finally‚ pesky security checks notwithstanding‚ the international tourism industry is booming. Tourism has become a key economic driver globally‚ and is one of the main sources of income for many developing countries today. The global crisis that shook 2008 to the core (and continues to do so) has impact in industries across the board. One of the most affected fields is tourism as it’s
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The Positive and Negative Impacts of Sports Development in Malaysia and How It Boosts the Country’s Tourism Industry. Events Tourism is essentially an event that is staged by the destination to appeal and benefit from visitors‚ domestic and international. The event is the visitor’s primary purpose or motive for visiting‚ with the destination receiving either positive or negative impacts as a consequence of hosting it (McCartney‚ 2011). There are no doubt many events in Malaysia that enhance the
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High Impact We all need to help people who are playing a high impact sport and people that have played a high impact sport and have been injured because of the impact. The high impact injuries need to be prevented because if they don’t more and more people will suffer from concussions‚ permanent brain damage‚ and different thoughts and emotions then they had before the injuries. The amount of injuries caused by high impact sports in much more than others. “I don’t think my life will ever be the same”
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All sports can cause injuries but high impact sports cause the most. The article “Hard Knocks” talks about injuries from high impact sports. Long term health effects from high impact sports are CTE which cause suicidal thoughts and concussions which lead to brain injuries. One long term effect of high impact sports are suicidal thoughts. The article states “several former players-all found to have CTE have committed suicide”(15). The importance of this statement is to show that people who receive
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