Tourism 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" Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011‚ there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide‚ representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to US$ 940 billion in 2010.[2][3] International
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Introduction – There is very important role of Information Media Communications in developing Tourism Policy and Cross Cultural Communication for Peace‚ Security for Sustainable Tourism industry. Increasingly‚ ICTs play a critical role for the competitiveness of tourism organizations and destinations. ICTs are becoming a key determinant of organizational competitiveness. This strategy involves the planned communication component of programmes designed to change the attitudes and behavior of specific
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Tourism has developed as a prevailing financial variable in United Kingdom as well as in global horizon. With its financial and all other business benefits‚ tourism and hospitality industry can absolutely assume a deciding part in the improvement of economies which experiences problems of an unfavourable parity of payment circumstance‚ a high level of social backwardness‚ other than the natural issues. Be that as it may‚ to make progress in tourism and hospitality there‚ organisations operating
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Literature Review Sustainable tourism in the Bahamas Lino Brigulio‚ Richard Butler‚ David Harrison and Walter Leal Filho‚ authors of the book entitled Sustainable Tourism in Islands and small states defined Sustainable tourism as tourism development that avoids damage to the environment‚ economy and cultures of the locations where it takes place [ (Lino Briguglio‚ 1996) ]. Throughout the book the authors stresses that in order for a country’s tourism industry to be sustainable‚ developmental
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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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Threat of substitutes The threat of substitutes means that a product identical or similar with other product which same characteristics product we found easily. The industry is less attractive when the threat of substitutes is high. In this case‚ we need to produce different product compared to the other firm to attract consumer to buy from us. Our firm threat of substitutes is medium as we are producing the plus sizes of clothing for men and women. In this industry‚ although there are several brand
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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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Organizational Integration in Travel and Tourism Industry Anas Najdawi eBusiness Management Section‚ S.S. ISUFI University of Salento Lecce‚ Italy anas.najdawi@ebms.unile.it Abstract—This paper will present a general description of an on going PhD research that belongs to the eTourism research field. Mainly‚ this research is concerned with leveraging interorganizational integration for destination management organizations in the travel and tourism industry by using Service Oriented Architecture
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Remuneration and Working Conditions in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries Introduction Tourism and hospitality organisations need many different things for them to function‚ the most important of these things being their employees. However to ensure that they can keep and retain their employees there are many things that an organisation needs to employ; this includes the concepts of remuneration and working conditions. It is for this reason that this essay will examine the concept of remuneration
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HOW DOES TOURISM IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT The effect of tourism on the environment can be both positive and negative. Each person or group of people will impact the area they visit in a different way. Whether it is in a negative or positive manner is entirely up to the visitor. Let’s consider the NEGATIVE impacts first: POLLUTION - This is probably the biggest negative factor concerning tourism. People have to travel to their destination. It doesn’t matter if it’s by plane to another country or
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