Global Financial Crisis: Impact on India’s Poor Some Initial Perspectives Rajiv Kumar Bibek Debroy Jayati Ghosh Vijay Mahajan K. Seeta Prabhu Global Financial Crisis: Impact on India’s Poor Disclaimer: The views in the publication are those of the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations Development Programme. Copyright©2009 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India The articles can be reproduced in whole or part with relevant acknowledgement
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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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Impact of GDP on the automotive industry. The Federal Reserve ’s primary goal is sustained growth of the economy with full employment and stable prices. Real GDP is the most comprehensive measure of the performance of the U.S. economy. By monitoring trends in the overall growth rate as well as the unemployment rate and the rate of inflation‚ policy makers are able to assess whether the current stance of monetary policy is consistent with that primary goal. The automobile industry is one of the largest
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The impact of United Kingdom Tourism on the Employment rate. Source : Travel and Tourism Economic Impacts 2012 United Kingdom UK Tourism had generated 938‚500 jobs in 2011 which is 3.0% of total employment in the UK economy. The Tourism employment includes airlines‚ transportation service‚ hotels‚ restaurant‚ travel agents and leisure industries directly and indirectly supported by tourism. According to the data‚ there is a decrease from year 2002 to year 2005. Fords end 90 years of British
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Turkey Tourism Industry 2014 Q1 Report In BMI’s Turkey tourism report‚ we examine a range of key market indicators in this well established and popular market‚ including inbound and outbound travel‚ industry value and tourism related expenditure. We expect to see increases across the board; however‚ any escalation in regional and domestic tensions is likely to impact on growth. Indeed‚ domestic tensions remain a risk to the tourism industry‚ with the recent outbreak of widespread protests against
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Tourism is defined as people traveling and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not interrelated to the exercise of an activity rewarded from within the place visited. Tourism is mainly popular as a global freedom activity. Tourism can bring many economic and social benefits. Countries can promote their self internationally by making their environment pleasant for tourist to appreciate. Promotion of tourism
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TOURISMOS: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF TOURISM Volume 6‚ Number 2‚ Autumn 2011‚ pp. 139-158 UDC: 338.48+640(050) ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF AGRA Surabhi Srivastava University of Lucknow Tourism in its broadest generic sense can do more to develop understanding among the people‚ provide jobs‚ create foreign exchange and raise living standards than any other economic force. India is world famous for the city of Taj -Agra. There are a number of other tourists
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B. A. PROGRAMME APPLICATION COURSES TOURISM Convenor & Coordinator : Prof. K.V. Bhanumurthy Joint Coordinator : Dr. Abha Mathur 1 Tourism Course Objective The application course aims to familiarize the students with a brief background of tourism‚ its concepts‚ development and scope with special reference to India. Expected Learning Objectives Considering that Tourism Industry is experiencing a phenomenal growth world over‚ a student who has studied this course would
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hotelier after Word War II * 1946‚ he formed the Hillton Hotel Corporation * With the purchase of the Statler chain in 1954‚ he created the first major chain of modern hotels ELSWORTH M. STATLER * Father of Modern Commercial Hotel Industry. * He was the originator of the hotel chain concept known as Statler in year 1863-1928. * Opened his first hotel in Buffalo‚ New York in 1901. * In 1954‚ he sold Statler chain of hotels to Conrad Hilton. CESAR RITZ * “ the hotel
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History and structure of travel and tourism industry Case study of Georgian Spa City of Bath Abstract This study is focused on the history and structure of travel travel and tourism industry in the City of Bath. It analyses the effects of the industrial revolution in the City of Bath and its stages of development and it gives a brief note on importance of factors facilitating growth like technology‚ infrastructure‚ social condition and analyses in its conclusion the
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