ESSAY PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF CULTURAL TOURISM IN KERALA INTRODUCTION Tourism is an economic activity of global importance. It is the temporary movement of people from one place to another mainly for pleasure. It is a rapidly growing industry which provides employment opportunities to millions of people‚ generates foreign exchange and promotes balanced regional development and revives the art and culture. It is one of the biggest industries in the world. Tourism is not a single industry
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Introduction The idea of the strategic capability of a firm has been deliberated by academics and theorists for years‚ and has culminated in the widely accepted resource based view of the firm. Within business strategies there are numerous levels of competence and resource that dictate the future strategy of the organisation. The ability for a business to understand its strategic capability‚ and where it sits currently is vital for the firm to implement an achievable and realistic strategic plan. This essay
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Cultural Syncretism Abstract The concept of cultural syncretism exists when two different cultures combine their ancient beliefs of the past to create new traditions and/or beliefs. There are several cultural factors that influenced both Africa and the Americas such as weaponry‚ technological advancements‚ medical and religious. China and India’s values were quite different when it came to cultural beliefs. They would isolate themselves from outside traditions‚ which made them more resistant to
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The Cultural Revolution of China: Annihilating Culture with each Political and Class Struggle Wendy Wang Junior Division Historical Paper Wang1 China ’s Cultural Revolution of the 1900s caused radical changes to the People ’s Republic of China. More a political struggle than actual revolution‚ the Cultural Revolution had a huge effect on people throughout mainland China. People of all backgrounds had their lives changed as different factions of the Communist Party fought for control
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Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations‚ maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings‚ monuments‚ landscapes‚ books‚ works of art‚ and artifacts)‚ intangible culture (such as folklore‚ traditions‚ language‚ and knowledge)‚ and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes‚ and biodiversity)
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Cultural relativism holds that there is no universal morality that is common among all cultures. Specifically‚ in an article on cultural relativism James Rachels states the following characteristics of cultural relativism: 1) Different societies have different moral codes; 2) There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one societal code better than another; 3) The moral code of our own society has no special status; it is merely one among many; 4) There is no "universal truth"
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on three of the cross cultural communication principles and give concrete examples for it of them. Cross cultural communication is a studying of how to look at people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate (for example‚ national‚ ethics‚ religious‚ etc)‚ resulting from a common language and communication style‚ customs‚ beliefs‚ attitudes and values‚ in similar and different ways among themselves and how they endeavour to communicate cross the cultural. Cross cultural communication has seven
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Strategic Management and IHRM Ashly Pinnington Contents 1 Introduction: value creation through strategic management 2 Major stakeholders 3 Strategic management 4 Three perspectives on strategy implementation: strategic management‚ international strategy and national competitiveness 5 Strategy viewed from two perspectives based on people: project management and organizational behaviour 6 The rise of international HRM and strategic HRM 7 IHRM challenges 8 Summary and conclusions
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Mao Ze Dong started the Great Cultural Revolution in 1966‚ in what appeared to be a massive cleansing policy to ensure the final victory of Mao and his supporters over the rest of the Chinese Communist party. Mao Zedong officially launched the Cultural Revolution at Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee. Over the next decade‚ literally millions of people were destroyed‚ imprisoned and blamed for previously hidden ’bourgeois tendencies’ while tens of thousands were executed. Mao Zedong
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internal external environment analysis‚ and formulate strategies to achieve strategic targets through quality enhancement of goods and services meeting the changing needs and wants of the customers. Strategic planning is the process of matching organizational resources and competences against desired organizational targets through external and internal environment analysis‚ competitors’ analysis‚ market analysis‚ market trends‚ and form strategies to achieve goals and objectives and create value for
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